The judge threatened to sanction the IG lawyers if they didn’t immediately rescind the request for an emergency hearing because she’s so busy with other cases caused by Trump.

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    That isn’t actual a legal argument. If a certain recourse is legal, then it is legal no matter how busy the courts may be.

    A court saying they are too busy to enforce the law is declaring themselves useless.

    Damage is being done every single day this continues, but the judge berated and threatened those asking for the law to be enforced, because they are busy

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      She declined to fast track the case like the IGs wanted. It will still be handled in due time. Trump fired the IGs without the required 30 day noticed, and if they were reinstated there’d be nothing to stop him from firing them properly, so fast tracking the case wouldn’t really accomplish much.

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      She said she was too busy to sanction the lawyer who wasted her time. Not too busy to enforce the law.