Since then, the ardent support and unsubstantiated accusations have waned somewhat, and the party has grappled with new facts, creating an increasingly vivid picture of the former president taking highly classified documents to luxury resorts.
Join the group of Republican state attorneys general who filed a court hearing in the Mar-a-Lago documents case on Tuesday. Moves by Attorneys General of Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and West Virginia seemingly support Trump’s lawsuit It looks like important evidence.
However, if you dig a few inches deeper, it’s significantly smaller than it looks. The document is dedicated to attacking the Biden administration and its handling of legal issues. We rarely really deal with the case in front of us.
The brief opens with some of the biggest hits of the Republican offensive against the search itself. The Brief called it an “unprecedented nine-hour search of former President Donald J. Trump’s private residence,” with the Biden administration looting the home of a “former and possibly future” political rival. “Runsucking” often means stealing things, or at least handling matters haphazardly and roughly.)
But aside from that, the brief doesn’t quite address the search, Trump’s underlying actions, or even the order being appealed. Dedicated to all arguments, it claims to demonstrate legal ‘gamesmanship’.
Admittedly, the mill has a bit of an obsession. The attorney general said last year that President Biden conceded that resuming the coronavirus eviction moratorium would likely fail in court, but that it was worth pursuing because it could help people before it was dropped. The brief also cites Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. blaming legal gamesmanship controls in a lengthy court battle over immigration rules.
But otherwise, this brief reads like a hastily compiled list of complaints you might see on a Fox News show.And the examples cited aren’t limited to legal battles. Also about the public comments from Vice President Harris last week that the border is “safe,” the administration’s comments that it will not fund “gain-of-function” research, and the cancellation of the launch of the “Disinformation Governance Commission.” It contains. All of these wide-ranging cases are essentially collected into one claim service. The administration cannot rely on its representation of the facts regarding the search for Mar-a-Lago.
But the brief is remarkable for what it doesn’t say or claim. I haven’t delved into it at all. (Indeed, the word “classified” is not used at all.) Also in the actual legal controversy surrounding Marr’s Lago search, which was brought up in a case heard by Judge Eileen M. Cannon, No involvement.
This contrasts with an Amicus brief late last week by a group of Republican law enforcement officials, who argued that Cannon’s order would be overturned and closely analyzed the legal basis.
These Attorney Generals have taken an important perspective on the core question of whether the administration should be treated with a “presumption of regularity,” the notion that government officials “did their official duties adequately.” says there is. But that goal doesn’t stop them from actually attacking Trump, or at least the details of the controversial Cannon orders.
In many ways, this tactic mirrors the last time a Republican Attorney General stepped forward in a high-profile manner that seemed to warrant Trump. After the 2020 election, Trump made all sorts of false claims about voter fraud, a “stolen” election, and more. — Almost everything in this latest briefin fact, offered a more watered-down version that merely raised questions – plus a few others.
It also reflects a tack that appears to have been taken by Trump’s own legal team, who refused to vouch for many of his claims in court.
And as always, what people say publicly should be measured against what they and their supporters are willing to say in court.
