Feds plan unusual appeal in emoluments suit vs. Trump

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Politico

By Josh Gerstein 5 hrs ago

The Justice Department is planning an unusual appeal to stop the governments of the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia from using a federal lawsuit to demand access to information about whether President Donald Trump is using his luxury Washington hotel to unconstitutionally profit from his office.

Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Peter Messitte turned down Trump’s request for permission to seek an appeal of early rulings in the case that went against him. Now, federal government lawyers say they plan to appeal anyway, using a rarely invoked process that can block a wayward judge from pressing on with a course of action alleged to be illegal or improper.

On Friday, the Justice Department informed Messitte that the federal government plans to try to get the Richmond-based 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to halt the case.

“The Solicitor General of the United States has authorized the filing in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit of a petition for writ of mandamus against this Court’s orders declining to dismiss the case and to certify an interlocutory appeal, as well as an application for a stay of District Court proceedings pending resolution of the mandamus petition,” Justice Department attorneys wrote.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/feds-plan-unusual-appeal-in-emoluments-suit-vs-trump/ar-BBQp2p4?li=BBnb7Kz

[sakabatou]

1. Aww, is Donny scared that the proverbial noose is tightening?

[shanny]

2. Why TF is DOJ defending rump?

They are not his lawyers, they are our lawyers.

[lagomorph777]

10. Whittaker

[sinkingfeeling]

3. So the DOJ has become the Orange Pig's personal law firm.

[Achilleaze]

4. republicans scrambling to hide their crimes

what a pack of immoral criminal dotards republicans turned out to be...

[Perseus]

5. What is going on???

I cannot believe that anyone would become loyal to this parasite trump...how many people are implicated with this moron? I cannot understand anyone doing it out of conviction...

[maxrandb]

6. It's not loyalty...it's survival

So many in the Retrumplican Party, and probably as many Federalist Society Right-Wing nutbag lawyers and judges in the DOJ, are so far up Donnie Short Fingers ass that they know their corruption would be revealed as well.

I think that when the shit all comes out, we're going to find that the Retrumplican Party and a shit-ton of their "Reich-Wing" think tanks, media organizations, and groups, like the NRA and the Federalist Society, actively worked to commit treason and fraud against America.

Look, for the past 40 years, the fucksticks on Hate-Radio have been telling their Retrumplican ball-suckers that "Democrats are worse than fascists". 30% of this fucking country would be fine with committing treason, because they've been told that voting for Democrats is an act of treason. To them, working with Putin to undermine our Constitution is an act of patriotism...NOT the treason that it truly is.

Shit's going to get ugly and violent before it gets better.

Mark my words!

[2naSalit]

8. [phone]

[sagetea]

11. I agree...

it's going to get very, very violent. I go to this other board and the trumroaches there are all about killing a liberal before a Russian.

sage

[Atticus]

7. Historically, writs of mandamus were used to compel only NONDISCRETIONARY

duties. Are the Trumpists re-writing Anglo-Saxon law?

[2naSalit]

9. They're trying to...nt