Judicial
Trump protective order hearing at deliberately inconvenient time
The judge trying the January 6 case against Trump set a hearing on a protective order – at a time inconvenient for Trump’s lawyers.
The judge trying the January 6 case against Donald Trump scheduled a hearing on a proposed protective order. But she scheduled it at a time she knew one of Trump’s lawyers couldn’t attend.
The Trump protective order – negotiations fail
Judge Tanya Chutkan had ordered a response from Trump by Monday afternoon, after Special Counsel Jack Smith moved for a protective order. (See the docket page.) Protective orders function to guard sensitive prosecution information from public eyes. But Smith insisted on protecting everything he would have to share with Trump’s legal team as part of criminal discovery.
Despite the breakneck schedule, Trump’s lawyers did file a response on time. Smith’s team filed one almost immediately thereafter. The Trump team proposed a more limited protective order, recognizing some categories of legitimately sensitive information. Smith’s team wouldn’t budge, charging that Trump wanted to try his case in the media rather than in court.
Yesterday morning both parties filed a joint notice of availabilities for a hearing.
Judge Chutkan had couched her order to the two parties to confer as an order to inform the court “of two dates and times on or before August 11, 2023 when both parties are available for a hearing.” Evidently August 11 was not a deadline for the notice, but rather a deadline for the hearing. Trump’s team wanted a hearing next week, because lawyer Todd Blanche cannot attend this week. He is working the Documents Case before Judge Aileen Cannon in Fort Pearce, Florida.
The judge, apparently unmoved, scheduled the hearing for August 11 at 10:00 a.m. So only John Lauro will be able to attend. Trump himself need not appear.
Additional reportage came from Newsmax and The Gateway Pundit.
Background on the judge
An X user speculated that Trump and his team might be looking for exceptions to file, in preparation for an appeal.
In reply another user shared information going to the bias of the judge. She once donated $1500 to Obama’s Presidential campaign. That, apparently, was the going rate for a Federal judgeship.
The Gateway Pundit has previously reported, furthermore, that Tanya Chutkin once worked for Hunter Biden at a firm having ties to Burisma, the Ukrainian natural-gas company.
Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.
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Something to remember is anyone appointed to any Federal position by Mr Obama is impersonating an Federal Official. Mr Obama is NOT a natural born Citizen of the US and was not alive when the US Constitution was adopted. He no authority to be President and all he did is null and void. Tanya Chutkan is not a legitimate Federal Judge. Mr Biden, while a natural born Citizen of the US can not appoint people either since Kamala Harris is not a natural born Citizen of the US and invalidates the Biden/Harris election. We are dealing with a Constitutional crisis.