Thread by @TimInHonolulu

1. When an opinion starts like this, you know TFG is in deep Kimchee.

"MILLETT, Circuit Judge: On January 6, 2021, a mob professing support for then-President Trump violently attacked the United States Capitol in an effort to prevent a Joint Session of Congress from certifying

2. the electoral college votes designating Joseph R. Biden the 46th President of the United States. The rampage left multiple people dead, injured more than 140 people, and inflicted millions of dollars in damage to the Capitol."

3. "The central question in this case is whether, despite the exceptional and imperative circumstances underlying the Committee’s request and President Biden’s decision, a federal court can, at the former President’s behest, override President Biden’s decision not to invoke

4. privilege and prevent his release to Congress of documents in his possession that he deems to be needed for a critical legislative inquiry.

On the record before us, former President Trump has provided no basis for this court to override President Biden’s judgment and

5. the agreement and accommodations worked out between the Political Branches over these documents."

6. I think this opinion puts TeamKoch in a tough position blocking the release. In addition and relevant to the constant claim that the DOJ is doing nothing is the fact that I think the DOJ already has them. Here the court just notes the relevant statute that gives Congress

7. access despite the limitations in the preceding section. It also provides that a civil case or criminal probe can reach them subject only to narrow limitations. Interesting the limitations are only "subject to any rights, defenses, or privileges which the United

8. States or agency or person may invoke." So doesn't this language treat Trump's claims not more than the rights of any "person?" I would like to ask someone like @tribelaw or @neal_katyal whether they believe that the FBI or a grand jury could get access to them without notice

9. to TFG. IMO Pres Biden could authorize them to access the records on these statutes. Finally, I remember Watergate litigation. People suspected that Nixon was hiding a smoking gun. It turned out to be so and nine days after the SCOTUS ruled on the tapes, he was gone.

10. Should my understanding of 2204 and 2205 turn out to be correct, the Govt may already have the smoking gun. And I think it's something big. Possibly a discussion about agreement to use force or violence to cause the overthrow and possibly involvement of a foreign power.

11. I'm pretty sure Putin is in our court dockets and listening to our grand juries. If his fingerprints are on the attack, I can see why the little dog is showing his teeth.