BREAKING: JW has submitted an amicus curiae brief to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in opposition to Maryland’s Attorney General & in support of President @realDonaldTrump’s choice of Matthew Whitaker as Acting Attorney General. (1/6)
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Soon after President Trump appointed Whitaker as Acting AG, Maryland AG Brian Frosh filed a motion asking the court to prohibit the administrative substitution of Whitaker to replace former AG Sessions as one of nine defendants in a pending lawsuit. (2/6)
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Judicial Watch argues that the “State of Maryland’s naked attempt to wage a political battle in the courts should be denied” and that the Maryland Attorney General’s motion both misstates the law and is fatally flawed on procedural grounds. (3/6)
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Judicial Watch also argues that the Maryland Attorney General misstates the law in his claims that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should assume the top position of Attorney General instead of President Trump’s appointee Matthew Whitaker. (4/6)
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Pointing to numerous partisan legal challenges by Maryland’s own lawyer to litigate a similar case before the Supreme Court, JW also filed a Public Information Act request with the Maryland AG about its efforts to challenge the Whitaker appointment. (5/6)
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Judicial Watch President @TomFitton: “Anti-@realDonaldTrump politicians shouldn’t be allowed to abuse the courts to achieve their political goals. The court should deny Maryland’s naked attempt to wage a political battle in the courts.” (6/6)
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