Oh well. Tots and pears, amirite?

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Divided Ninth Circuit panel *denies* DOJ's request for emergency relief in the California voters case: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... I have a hard time believing that even *this* #SCOTUS will have any interest in intervening this close to Tuesday, but that doesn't mean DOJ won't *ask.*

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I don’t know much about lawyering but this doesn’t seem like a good thing?

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McFadden wondered if he shouldn’t just let govt try to get indictment, and if GJ rejects, the issue would go away. He commented that, these days, ham sandwiches weren’t so easy to indict. (McDowell said that doing that would deprive Comey of repose the statute gives him.) 6/end

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Comey’s counsel, Ephraim McDowell, cited SCOTUS case Lamie v US Trustee for proposition that even if Congress made a drafting error, it’s up to Congress to correct, not courts. Asked same question, prosecutor said, “I’m struggling to understand the question.” 5/6

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