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The
once
and
future
president
is
breaking
shit
in
all
the
courts
at
once.
He’s
hoping
to
get
SCOTUS
to
nix
his
sentencing
in
New
York,
even
as
he
tries
to
persuade
the
Eleventh
Circuit
to
bottle
up
Special
Counsel
Jack
Smith’s
report
long
enough
for
incoming
Attorney
General
Pam
Bondi
to
burn
every
copy.
In
New
York,
Trump
demands
that
his
sentencing
be
adjourned
so
he
can
pursue
an
interlocutory
appeal
of
the
denial
of
his
motion
to
dismiss
on
immunity
grounds.
He
insists
that
the
conviction
for
creating
false
business
records
to
cover
up
a
hush
money
payment
rests
on
official
acts
evidence,
and
thus
he
is
entitled
to
an
automatic
stay
until
2029
(or
preferably
never).
Alternatively,
his
lawyers
John
Sauer
and
Todd
Blanche
have
invented
a
theory
of
president-elect
immunity
that
they
can
just
about
argue
with
a
straight
face.
So
far,
they’re
not
getting
any
takers.
Justice
Merchan
just
rolled
his
eyes,
after
which
Trump
filed
an
filed
an
emergency
petition
with
the
New
York’s
Appellate
Division,
which
was summarily
rejected
by
Associate
Justice
Ellen
Gesmer
after
a
brief
hearing
on
Tuesday.
Trump
then
made
a
token
feint
in
the
direction
of
the
New
York
Court
of
Appeals
before
racing
to
SCOTUS
and
demanding
that
it
enjoin
his
sentencing,
which
is
currently
scheduled
for
Friday
morning.
“Forcing
President
Trump
to
defend
a
criminal
case
and
appear
for
a
criminal
sentencing
hearing
at
the
apex
of
the
Presidential
transition
creates
a
constitutionally
intolerable
risk
of
disruption
to
national
security
and
America’s
vital
interests,”
vamped
future
Deputy
AG
Blanche
and
future
solicitor
general
Sauer.
“By
contrast,
the
State
of
New
York’s
asserted
interest
in
proceeding
with
the
criminal
sentencing
of
the
President-Elect
of
the
United
States
on
politically
motivated
charges
at
breakneck
speed
at
the
apex
of
a
Presidential
transition
should
be
accorded
no
weight.”
They
blame
the
trial
court
for
the
last-minute
filing,
omitting
to
mention
that
Trump
himself
demanded
three
delays
of
sentencing,
which
was
originally
scheduled
for
July,
and
then
waited
three
weeks
after
Justice
Merchan
rejected
his
immunity
claims
to
assert
said
“automatic”
stay:
“Because
it
is
highly
questionable
whether
the
New
York
Court
of
Appeals
will
act
in
the
next
48
hours,
filing
applications
in
both
courts
appears
to
be
the
only
viable
option.”
Justice
Sotomayor,
who
fields
emergency
requests
from
New
York,
has
given
District
Attorney
Alvin
Bragg
until
10
a.m.
Thursday
to
respond.
Then
we’ll
find
out
if
the
Supreme
Court’s
six
conservatives
want
to
hang
Trump
v.
People
of
New
York
next
to
Trump
v.
US
on
its
wall
of
shame
before
the
outrages
of
the
next
four
years
even
get
underway.
Meanwhile
in
Florida,
Judge
Aileen
Cannon
purported
to
stay
the
release
of
the
special
counsel
report,
despite
apparently
lacking
jurisdiction
over
the
documents
case.
Trump’s
dimwit
henchmen,
Walt
Nauta
and
Carlos
De
Oliveira,
simultaneously
filed
in
the
Eleventh
Circuit,
where
they
bizarrely
asserted
rights
under
the
Presidential
Transition
Act
and
the
Executive
Vesting
Clause.
This
may
have
something
to
do
with
the
fact
that
at
least
one
lawyer
representing
them,
Stan
Woodward,
is
headed
to
a
job
in
the
upcoming
Trump
administration.
The
Eleventh
Circuit,
which
does
have
jurisdiction,
gave
the
DOJ
until
this
morning
to
respond.
And
so
today
the
government
warranted
that
it
will
not
be
publicly
releasing
Volume
2
of
the
Special
Counsel
report
detailing
Trump’s
efforts
to
steal
government
records
and
hide
them
in
his
pool
locker
until
such
time
as
the
pending
case
against
the
dimwit
henchmen
is
resolved.
“The
essential
premise
of
defendants’
emergency
motion—that,
absent
this
Court’s
intervention,
‘Attorney
General
Garland
is
certain
to
make
[the
Final
Report]
immediately
public’
and
thereby
cause
irreparable
prejudice
to
defendants’
criminal
proceedings
(Mot.
1)—is
thus
mistaken,”
the
prosecutors
write,
adding
that
“Defendants
Nauta
and
De
Oliveira
have
no
cognizable
interest
in
that
volume
of
the
Final
Report,
however,
nor
any
plausible
theory
of
Article
III
standing
that
would
justify
their
asking
this
Court
to
grant
relief
with
respect
to
it.”
This
highlights
the
absolute
insanity
of
allowing
a
trial
judge
who
dismissed
the
case
to
order
the
DOJ
to
do anything
at
all,
much
less
retain
jurisdiction
over
the
Justice
Department
for
three
days
after
the
Eleventh
Circuit’s
disposition
of
the
emergency
motion.
“To
avoid
the
potential
need
for
further
emergency
litigation
in
this
Court,
the
United
States
respectfully
requests
that
this
Court
make
clear
in
denying
the
motion
that
its
resolution
of
this
question
should
be
the
last
word
(absent
review
by
the
en
banc
court
or
the
Supreme
Court),”
the
DOJ
notes
pointedly.
“The
United
States
respectfully
requests
that,
if
this
Court
agrees
that
no
injunction
against
the
Attorney
General
is
warranted,
the
Court
should
say
so
in
an
order
binding
on
the
district
court
and
vacate
the
district
court’s
temporary
injunction.”
Nauta
and
De
Oliveira
offered
to
respond
to
the
DOJ’s
motion
by
10
a.m.
tomorrow,
only
to
be
told
that
they
can
get
their
homework
in
by
5
today.
Will
they
be
asserting
henchmen-to-the-president-elect
privilege?
Probably!
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