Here's the question the judge in the NRA bankruptcy case said it all boils down to at the end of today's hearing: Image
Basically, can the NRA use bankruptcy as protection from New York Attorney General Letitia James's stated goal of dissolving the organization through litigation?
He has incorporated a key point that James's lawyers have hammered at quite a bit: the AG can't just order dissolution herself. A judge would have to sign off on it too.
Closing arguments in this portion of the NRA bankruptcy trial will conclude on Monday starting at 9am est.

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