Appeals court rules against Trump attorney, ordering him to comply with subpoena

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Source: CBS News

Washington — An appeals court in Washington, D.C., has ruled against an attorney for former President Donald Trump, ordering him to comply with a federal grand jury subpoena to testify and provide information about his communications with Trump in its investigation into possible mishandling of documents with classified markings found at his Mar-a-Lago residence.

Trump's legal team could appeal the ruling to higher courts, but a person familiar with the case says that's not likely at this point. It is likely that Corcoran could appear before the grand jury on Friday to testify about notes and exchanges with his client, Trump, about the former president's handling of classified records. CNN first reported the potential date of his appearance.

Trump has maintained he's innocent and denied all wrongdoing in the case. His representatives did not immediately respond to request for comment, and the Justice Department also declined to comment. Late Tuesday, a three-judge panel had ordered Trump's legal team and prosecutors in special counsel Jack Smith's office to file briefs about whether the attorney, Evan Corcoran, could be compelled to address specific issues of interest to investigators.

Proceedings and written arguments remain sealed because grand jury matters are by law protected from public scrutiny, but brief entries on the public docket between midnight and 6 a.m. Tuesday showed filing deadlines for the dueling parties and ordered Trump's team to highlight specific documents at issue.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-attorney-evan-corcoran-testify/

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Full headline: Appeals court rules against Trump attorney, ordering him to comply with subpoena in classified documents case

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Previous article -

Washington -- An appeals court in Washington, D.C., has ruled against an attorney for former President Donald Trump, ordering him to comply with a federal grand jury subpoena to testify and provide information about his communications with Trump in its investigation into possible mishandling of documents with classified markings found at his Mar-a-Lago residence.

Trump's legal team could appeal the ruling to the entire D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Trump has maintained he's innocent and denied all wrongdoing in the case. His representatives did not immediately respond to request for comment, and the Justice Department also declined to comment.

Late Tuesday, a three-judge panel had ordered Trump's legal team and prosecutors in special counsel Jack Smith's office to file briefs about whether the attorney, Evan Corcoran, could be compelled to address specific issues of interest to investigators.

Proceedings and written arguments remain sealed because grand jury matters are by law protected from public scrutiny, but brief entries on the public docket between midnight and 6 a.m. Tuesday showed filing deadlines for the dueling parties and ordered Trump's team to highlight specific documents at issue.

Original article -

Washington -- An appeals court in Washington, D.C., has ruled against an attorney for former President Donald Trump, ordering him to comply with a federal grand jury subpoena and provide information about his communications with Trump in its investigation into possible mishandling of documents with classified markings found at his Mar-a-Lago residence.

Trump's legal team could appeal the ruling to the entire D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Late Tuesday, a three-judge panel had ordered Trump's legal team and prosecutors in special counsel Jack Smith's office to file briefs about whether the attorney, Evan Corcoran, could be compelled to address specific issues of interest to investigators.

Proceedings and written arguments remain sealed because grand jury matters are by law protected from public scrutiny, but brief entries on the public docket between midnight and 6 a.m. Tuesday showed filing deadlines for the dueling parties and ordered Trump's team to highlight specific documents at issue.

[Zorro]

1. Well that didn't take long at all

[BumRushDaShow]

2. I had posted and deleted an earlier OP because NBC News had this big breaking news banner

and stuff all over their website but they were linking to the earlier district court ruling not the appeals one, and that my have been their boo boo because a decision DID just come out.

I saw a heads-up tweet from Kyle Cheney about this but even he didn't have anything about it on Politico yet.

Link to tweet

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What happens next? Presumably the appeals court will rule pretty quickly — before noon and maybe even by 9am.

Keep an eye out for Trump lawyers appearing at the federal courthouse today, and possibly even for Corcoran to testify.
politico.com
Trump denounces ‘crime-fraud’ ruling forcing attorney to testify in documents probe
The ruling by the federal District Court in D.C. came as its chief judge wound up her term supervising the grand jury.
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BREAKING: The appeals court has DENIED effort by Trump team to block Judge Howell's order turning over *documents* to special counsel Jack SMITH's team.

Details are under seal.
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3:27 PM · Mar 22, 2023

[Cha]

3. Huge!! TY!

[BumRushDaShow]

4. YW Cha!!! Have been waiting all day for this

as there was a deadline of 6 am EDT for DOJ to turn in their response this morning and they did so around 5:30 am EDT.

[Cha]

5. I know.. I mean I read about this

last night.. and here we are!

TY Again!

[liberalmediaaddict]

6. He'll find a way to delay it

Trump's legal team could appeal the ruling to the entire D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals

There's always another court for Trump to file an appeal.

[dem4decades]

7. It's unfuckingbeliebable, justice never comes for the rich.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Not even that

(see Bernie Madoff among others)

It's HIM.

People are seeing why nothing was done the past 50 years because no one had the time, the resources, or the determination to get through what would be an extended nightmarish labyrinth of the gaming of the legal system, including navigating around a judiciary with judges appointed by him. There literally needed and still needs to be, "all hands on deck" to deal with it.

And even then, it would have been easier to nail him before he became President because once he was elected, that seemed to be an immediate "shield" that he dare not lose (but thankfully he mostly did). That is why he kept trying to find ways to maintain that "shield" by directing that fraudulent pathways be found that ensured that he stayed in office (including to this day insisting on extending "Executive Privilege" beyond his term of office as some right and justification for protection against adjudication of every bit of criminality that he engaged in).

[Novara]

11. Good point. It's why he is historically never held to account.

His endless abuse of the court system wears opponents out.

But this time it appears at least one court has HAD IT with the endless delay tactics. And this time he's up against the DOJ, which hired a hell of a lot of lawyers recently, and who can easily respond to expedited filing deadlines. Case in point: their 6,500-word brief, which they had ready by 5:30 am. His legal team of Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe won't be able to keep up with the DOJ. Boy, hiring all those lawyers was genius.

I would love to see every judge who has his cases take the same tactic: expedite the process. It's clear the DOJ's lawyers can handle it; his 2-bit cheap-ass lawyers can't.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Exactly

The fact that "deep pocket" DOJ had to go full bore with staffing up to basically handle multiple cases and multiple grand juries, is a case in point regarding the level of offense that is needed to get the ball this far down the field.

I keep this in a tab but this from awhile ago (I think this past October) that summarized the issues -

[kacekwl]

9. How many weeks

Months was given as a deadline to testify. Good grief.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. There's another OP in LBN that says Friday

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143049805

(where Fridays have been when 45-related federal grand juries have been in session)

[MyOwnPeace]

13. Great job keeping on it, Bum!

It has become quite clear that 'most' of the judicial system is well aware of IQ45's legal stall tactics - and they are responding accordingly. Those that are not will suffer the 'career' consequences down the road - lack of promotions, lack of respect, loss of credibility. But they were obviously willing to give up their own personal integrity just to kiss the A$$ of tRump and the MAGA's.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Thanks!

So many legal balls are in the air.

[gab13by13]

15. I posted this last night

. I don't see a delay happening


"The appeals court’s order — from Judges Cornelia Pillard, J. Michelle Childs and Florence Pan, all Democratic appointees — doesn’t identify Corcoran or the case at issue but makes clear that the government was on the winning side of the case in Howell’s court."

It seems to me the Appeals court has already made up its mind.

[republianmushroom]

16. Ut oh, Donald, doesn't look good.