DOJ notifies the court that it will appeal a judge's order to release a March 2019 memo

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7. some context before we burn Garland at the stake...

https://www.reuters.com/business/legal/us-attorney-general-garland-weighs-release-trump-era-obstruction-memo-2021-05-21/

There are competing interests that Garland must balance in making his decision even if he may personally disapprove of Barr's conduct, said Bradley Moss, a national security lawyer in Washington who has been following the litigation.

An appeal would signal to civil servants in the Justice Department that Garland will back them in court when they come under fire, Moss said.

"For Garland, one interest here is the need to defend the honor and integrity of the department," Moss said. "The competing interest, of course, is the desire for some transparency."

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Garland may simply be going through the motions on this to help eliminate any sort of appearance of bias by rushing to release the memo. I think he's wasting his time since the drumpf party will eviscerate him no matter what happens, even if an appellate court turns him upside down and shakes the memo out of his pockets.

As for defending the honor of the department, i have a hart time believing people in DOJ see it that way. They spent 4 years watching Session and Barr trample every norm, every matter of honor, and lifetimes of work or loyal public servants that were reticulated, humiliated, branded traitors and fired. I find it hard to believe they want to see this dragged out so they will know Garland "has their back". I would think they would see "having their back" as exposing what Barr did to their once beloved DOJ.

But that's just my opinion. I don't work within those walls.