Thread by @tracybeanz

THREAD: A refresh on Missouri v. Biden and where we are.

https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1603776541732782083

Right now, there are a few things occurring at the same time. The judge in this case has granted expedited discover and deposition in order to rule on a TEMPORARY INJUNCTION, as the trial moves forward. This is the relief sought in that injunction.

To get to the place where the Judge can grant or deny this temporary injunction, the judge had allowed the depositions of several high ranking officials. Of course, the government appealed this and everything else in a mandamus petition to the fifth circuit and also other courts

The 5th circuit asked the judge in the lower court to reexamine whether lower ranking individuals could give the information needed. The Plaintiffs identified them. Those depositions have been granted. There are a few outliers; namely, Jen Psaki and Rob Flaherty, WH comms.

The Psaki deposition was interesting; When she left the WH, she was no longer a plaintiff—she wasn’t press secretary anymore. When the plaintiffs asked the NEW press secretary for the responsive docs required, they denied any existence of such and said they wouldn’t (cont)

…know because they didn’t say any of the things in question. They denied any knowledge of anything. So, Plaintiffs were forced to subpoena Psaki as a non-party to the case- she was the only one who had the info they needed, AS PER THE GOVERNMENT.

So, Psaki hired high powered formed DOJ fixers, and ALSO had the government arguing for her, and she challenged the deposition in VA court, saying both the time it would take her to prepare was disruptive to her family, AND that she had no information. The judge in that (cont)

..in VA wasn’t having it. He said “How could there be so much preparation if you have nothing to say?” And also “How dare you bring this to another jurisdiction for me to step on another judges toes without the record in front of me. Judges decision in LA stands”

Then, the judge in LA again ordered the depo of Psaki. Well, the government then went BACK to the 5th circuit and added Psaki to their original mandamus request and asked the 5th to rule that she shouldn’t testify (they really dont want her under oath)

On Friday, the judges there sent it back to LA saying they should try to find someone else. Without getting into it too much, they misstated the record when they made that decision, so I am waiting to see what happens now. The judge in LA will make some sort of order shortly.

At the same time as this is all happening, Flaherty has been ordered to submit to written interrogatory, which is why you are suddenly seeing Flaherty emails on censorship floating around on Twitter.

WHILE ALL OF THIS IS GOING ON

There is a motion to dismiss on the amended complaint filed by the Defendants. The Plaintiffs responded to the motion on Friday as well, in a 99 page filing. It is well plead, and the judge has already ruled against the defendants on numerous of their arguments.

Plainly stated, the Defendant motion is legitimately DECEPTIVE in its pleading, but they are likely doing it the way they are because they intend to go back to the 5th and hope that panel rules in their favor on mandamus, something they have been hesitant to even touch so far.

Instead, they’ve been better served to send things back to the judge for another look, something that hasn’t worked out poorly for the Plaintiffs, TBH. The judge in LA is ruling properly while he has the 5th circuit breathing down his neck because the government wants to stop

…you from being able to speak freely and espousing “wrongthink.” There is A LOT more here, but we are moving along in this case and I will continue following it for you as we go. I’ll leave you with this bit from the 5th when they ruled about Psaki the other day.