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Trump Lawyer Files Batsh*t Motion Asking Federal Judge To Restrain NY Prosecutors As Eric Trump Whines On TV

That's not how any of this works.

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Last week, Donald Trump filed a lawsuit demanding that a federal judge tell New York State Attorney General Letitia James to stop being so mean to him. Among the many categories of relief sought, most of which amount to “tell that lady to go away and stop investigating me for crimes,” the former president asked for “a preliminary and permanent injunction … requiring Defendant to immediately cease or, at a minimum, appropriately limit all ongoing investigations of Plaintiffs pending resolution of this action.”

Plaintiffs’ counsel failed to request any emergency relief, however, and AG James promptly subpoenaed Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump, Jr.

Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba has now managed to docket a motion for preliminary injunction, and, friends, for sheer batshittery, this one rivals her letter to the Pulitzer Committee demanding that it retract prizes for the New York Times and Washington Post OR ELSE.

As outlined in Plaintiffs’ Complaint, the defendant, Letitia James (“Defendant”), has displayed a shocking irreverence for her prosecutorial ethics and has routinely exploited her position to malign the former president by turning an unfounded investigation into a public spectacle. In doing so, she has exposed the vindictive and self-serving nature of her actions – she is not serving any legitimate law enforcement interests but is merely seizing on an opportunity to harass, threaten, and retaliate against Trump, his family and his associates.

Safe bet there’s no decaf in that break room.

The whole thing is chock full of over-the-top insane rhetoric, accusing the NYAG of violating the Constitution by the mere act of investigating Trump’s family business.

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“Defendant’s conduct—abusing her investigatory power to silence a political opponent—not only constitutes viewpoint discrimination, but it also falls squarely within the type of retaliatory conduct that is prohibited under the First Amendment,” Habba argues.

Other passages teeter perilously close to gibberish:

Further, Defendant utilized the subpoenas in a perverted manner to obtain a collateral objective. First, Defendant sought to obtain a collateral detriment to Plaintiffs inasmuch as she sought to compel Trump to discontinue his political career by launching unfounded attacks against him and his business.

And it really is tempting fate for Donald Trump or his representatives to chastise anyone else for the “pompous, self-aggrandizing nature of her statements.”

Well, at least they didn’t say “uppity.” Although Habba did hop on Newsmax last night to call James “a sick person.”

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Most bizarrely of all, Trump complains the he’s been deprived of due process in violation of the Fourth Amendment, despite the fact that a state judge ruled that James could subpoena multiple witnesses, including Eric Trump, and a hearing is scheduled on the motion to quash the subpoena for his siblings.

Nevertheless, the former president demands that US District Judge Brenda K. Sannes leap into action and deprive the state court of jurisdiction, ordering James to quit investigating Trump, or at the very least to recuse herself from the investigation.

Meanwhile Eric Trump, whose refusal to be deposed landed this case in state court (where he lost, BTW) and allowed James to file a 68-page motion to compel laying out exactly why she’s investigating the family business, is back reprising his role as the living embodiment of the Streisand Effect.

Yes, when a judge orders you to sit for a deposition to explain how you managed to get a $19 million conservation tax credit on the unimproved portion of a property assessed at $21 million including the ancestral mansion, it is exactly like being in Russia or Venezuela.

He went on to add that “it’s gonna stop, because frankly, we’ve assembled the best legal, ethical minds, and we’re going to sue her for this abuse of power.”

By which he apparently means … Alina Habba.

AHEM.

Trump v. James [Federal Docket via Court Listener]
People v. Trump Org [State Docket]

Liz Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

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