Judge Mehta denies Trump's request for appeal.

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1. The "GRAVELS" be falling today.

ala dumb ass manuchin, and missing his pedicure appt the other day.
Cue up TRMS afterall!

[StarfishSaver]

2. He didn't deny the appeal. He denied the request for stay pending appeal

Trump asked the court to block the subpoena while the case was under appeal - meaning the documents would not have to be turned over while Trump's lawyers appealed the subpoena. Judge Mehta denied the stay, thus that the tax returns have to be turned over forthwith.

This is huuuuge.

It's a very well written, informative decision. I recommend everyone Read it better understand how all of this is working.

[at140]

4. How will the judge enforce

If Trump refuses to release tax returns quickly?
The executive branch has all the enforcing personnel. This is why we have elections to remove presidents like Trump. There are no appeals to election results.

[StarfishSaver]

6. Judges have the U.S. Marshals BUT

that probably won't be necessary. The order is a directed to Trump. It's directed to his accounting firm. Italian likeli that they are going to defy the judges order and risk being held in contempt.

And, Trump's usual bluster and threats of lawsuit won't work and this instance because the accounting firm is legally obligated to follow the court order to turn over the documents, so Trump has no standing to sue them if they do so.

[at140]

7. Without enforcement power

Judicial rulings are hard to enforce against executive branch.

Now if the judiciary employed a large military, it could easily enforce it's rulings.

[StarfishSaver]

9. The judicial branch has major enforcement power.

And people don't defy them. I suspect that even Trump won't mess with them. And even if he wants to, his lawyers aren't going to cooperate because, among other things, he can't pardon a disbarment.

Remember Judge Sullivan ordering the Justice Department to turn the plane with the deported immigrant on it around?That's how judges roll.

[at140]

11. Judge Sullivan was dealing with

Justice Dept on an issue which did not involve the POTUS directly. Some underling in DOJ is not going to risk ignoring a federal judge.

However the executive and the judicial are co-equal branches. I never understood how one branch can rule over the other. This ruling by judge Mehta and if it will be enforced, are going to be quite interesting to watch. We will find out very soon!

[StarfishSaver]

12. Judge Sullivan wasn't ordering an underling to do anything. He ordered the AG to do it

But neither the president nor the federal government are involved directly in this case. The judge ordered his accountant to turn over the tax returns.

The three branches check each other kind of like a version of rock, paper, scissors

[UTUSN]

3. K&R

[Firestorm49]

5. Broken record time. What's he hiding? What's he hiding? What's he hiding?

[at140]

8. He is hiding he is not a

Billionaire.

[shanny]

10. Not exactly.

Denied a stay to allow time for an appeal: records have to be released before an appeal plays out (iow, weak case). heh