Please take a moment before ripping the DOJ. This is not a wholesale appeal - it is tailored, see below.
https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1397018430163849219
As attorneys, we are trained from the beginning that attorney-client privilege is our most sacred trust. We should go to jail to protect it, we should NEVER violate that trust voluntarily.
The Court's decision was that there were portions of the memo that were after-the-fact cover for a decision already made, and that some was mere political advice -- those parts will be released.
But the Court also seems to have decided that some parts were legitimately part of the advice that the Office of Legal Counsel was giving to it's client - the Attorney General - and thus privileged. The DOJ should defend against the erosion of that privilege.
I share your hope, however, that the privileged portions of the memo are released because Fauk Bill Barr.
@MuellerSheWrote does an excellent (and much more detailed) job analyzing the specifics of the ruling here.
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1397018857357774851?s=20
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