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Marty Lederman
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1/ Evergreen Friday Anxiety Alert. Do yourself a favor: Try to keep in mind that: (i) Mueller probably won't complete his work and submit his "report" to Barr for weeks, months or years. (ii) The so-called "Mueller Report" probably won't be public. ...

@just_security @lawfare
2/ ... (iii) But there probably won't be much in it we don't already know. And (iv) other "reports" are potentially far more significant and might be made public (at least in part). Although (v) those other reports probably won't (expressly) state whether Trump broke the law ...
3/ ... (vi) they very well might give us details about what Trump did in the past and, much more importantly, whether he's compromised w/r/t the Russian threat now and going forward.

justsecurity.org/63275/why-its-…
4/ And perhaps most importantly, (vii) don't give *any* credence to any accounts you read except those that are officially made by the Special Counsel's Office.
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1/ Mea culpa: A couple of days back I tweeted a short thread premised on the assumption that the signatures on DOJ's ACA notice on Monday reflected an inability to find any career DOJ lawyers who'd agree to make the arguments. I should have reviewed the docket first:
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UPDATE on the Military Transgender Policy Cases:

1/ Last Thursday, the judge in the Maryland case challenging the Mattis policy stayed his preliminary injunction, one of the two that remained after SCOTUS stayed the other two.

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2/ The next day, judges Wilkins and Williams issued separate opinions in the D.C. Circuit case (below), which triggered a court-ordered 21-day period for the plaintiffs to file a petition for rehearing or petition for rehearing en banc.

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