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Well, Well, Well, Jack Smith Will Get to Present His Jan. 6 Findings After All (msn.com)

Judge Tanya Chutkan is plainly ready to get on with presiding over something. Since the Supreme Court’s unconscionable decision regarding presidential immunity dumped the case back in her chambers with one of its legs chopped away, Judge Chutkan seems to have responded by getting it on. So on Tuesday afternoon, she ruled in favor of special counsel Jack Smith and allowed him to present a nearly two-hundred-page brief of the evidence his office compiled supporting the insurrection charges against the former president*. From ABC News:

Smith faces a Thursday deadline to file his opening brief about how the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity applies to the former president’s criminal case. Smith had sought the judge’s permission to file an oversized brief, including more than 30 pages of exhibits. Filings are normally limited to 45 pages. While U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan is allowing the lengthy filing, the materials will likely be filed under seal—with a public version likely to be released, with redactions, at a later date. Trump’s lawyers had opposed the request, calling the proposed filing a “monstrosity” and a “biased list of grievances,” and arguing that the filing would allow prosecutors to unfairly publicize evidence.
Smith needed Judge Chutkan’s approval to file his mega brief, and in granting that approval, she tossed a nifty little elbow in the direction of the Supreme Court.

The judge, in granting the government’s request for an oversized brief, said that the unique challenge of applying the Supreme Court’s ruling justifies the unusually long document. “The length and breadth of the Government’s proposed brief reflects the uniquely ‘challenging’ and factbound nature of those determinations,” Judge Chutkan wrote. In the same order, Judge Chutkan denied Trump’s request to reconsider her schedule addressing the immunity issue.
“If you guys hadn’t made such a dog’s breakfast out of the immunity question, I wouldn’t need to know absolutely everything about how guilty the former president* really is.”

Judge Chutkan’s got some game.

By the end of the week, if the current status quo is maintained, some people will know everything Jack Smith has on the alleged perp. It won’t be us, alas, at least not for the moment. (And if the Trump team starts leaking carefully selected bits from the brief, Judge Chutkan should immediately toss them in the clink.) But somebody will know, and there’s nothing anyone can do about that.

sturge, here’re the links for those who want to hear more about the slobbering genius of the stable and to read the full KO take about it:

Donald Trump just literally drooled on himself during an unhinged speech in which he fawned over Russia and made multiple trademark unhinged statements. He’s BEYOND embarrassing. NOTE: drool closeup at 5:01 on vid.

TRUMP STARTS DROOLING DURING CAMPAIGN SPEECH – 9.25.24 – Countdown with Keith Olbermann – Omny.fm

SERIES 3 EPISODE 35: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) I wish these were metaphors.
In his latest fugue-state multi-hour you-know-how-old-he-is-he’s-206 campaign speech at Savannah, Trump first literally drooled on himself in the middle of a sibilant “S” and a scant 45 minutes later revealed that he just found out that Russia beat Napoleon AND Hitler and suddenly he’s the director in “The Producers” who says “I never knew the Third Reich meant Germany! I mean the play is drenched with historical goodies like that!”
CNN’s coverage of this latest evidence that Trump’s cheese has slid off his Ritz Cracker? “Trump focuses on economy at stop in battleground Georgia.” The term is sane-washing. If Biden had done this the replays would still be running on a loop on CNN.
And this doesn’t even get to his insanity on issues of substance: the stalker language towards women. The first oblique promise to jail people who criticize the Supreme Court. The continued insistence he will send the legal migrants in Ohio who are from Haiti “back” to Venezuela because he evidently thinks that’s where Haiti IS.
The stuff about the courts will re-surge in the next two days because Judge Tanya Chutkan has ruled Jack Smith can submit the phone book as his preliminary briefing in his revised Insurrection Case against Trump. 180 pages, probably, filled with evidence. Chutkan smacked Trump’s lawyers around, too. Stand by for fun.
There’s been more hacking of Trump campaign stuff and it won’t be published either but the recipient at least characterizes it. The auteur of Project 2025 reportedly told colleagues he killed a dog with a shovel because he barked too loudly. And just for laughs, what the Prime Minister of the U.K. meant to say was “return of the HOSTAGES” but he must have been hungry.

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and all this time I thought his drooling was about eating dogs and cats and/or how he envisions how he will “protect” women.