donald trump, tonight. a surprisingly resounding defeat. this is a case about his efforts to keep records, and documents from his time in the white house, but from ending up in the hands of the january six investigation in congress. so, this was the decision tonight. this was a federal appeals court in d.c.. the district courts, circuit courts, and then the supreme court. this is a circuit court decision, an appeals court one level below the u.s. supreme court. the three judge panel on this u.s. circuit court of appeals, they ruled unitas me tonight. that the trump white house documents, do indeed have to get handed over to the january 6th investigation. they did pause the effect of this ruling for two weeks. to give, trump, the opportunity to appeal this ruling up to the supreme court if he wants to. presumably, he wants to. i think, one of the things we have learned over the last five or six years with trump as a political actor is that he sees the court system as a giant brake pedal
endangered. they were forced to flee, preventing the legislators from completing their constitutional duties. until the following day. the january six committee, has also demonstrated a sound factual predicate for requesting these presidential documents specifically. the ruling says, quote, there was a direct link which between the former president, former president trump, and the events of the day. then, president trump, called for his supporters to gather in washington hen for a wild response to what he has been alleging for months, had been a stolen election. on january 6th, president trump, directed his followers to go to the capitol and quote, fight for their country. with the aim of preventing, congress certification the electoral vote. don t really think we need quotes from a speech that they. trump said, quote, we will never take back our country with weakness. we ve come to demand that congress to the right thing, and only count certain electors. and equally essential aspect
case, hello. it is very nice to meet you. have you thought about retirement? seriously, you should think about it. retirement is nice. anyway. to the extent that it makes a difference to the supreme court, how the lower courts have handled these matters. to the extent that the way these kinds of cases get to the supreme court, makes a difference to a justice decision. whether they re taking up and how long or how fast it will take it up for. it is worth noting that the trump rooms against trump on this issue have been pretty scalding at two different levels now. the first time, trump lost in court on this issue. last month. the district court judge s ruling in that case, is the kind of ruling that gets called and ex creation here. it was just a really blunt, really quotable, as they say blistering ruling. that was the first ruling against them. the appeals court tonight is
district court in d.c., has not been upheld unanimously, by a three judge panel at the appeal court the husker stick shun in that area. law but that s it. he has now lost twice. at the district court and the appeals court. unless trump files his appeal with the supreme court. and he takes this up on emergency basis with these documents will be handed over right before christmas eve. worth noting here on the implications. first of all, it should be noted it is a terrible ruling for steve bannon and mark meadows. steve bannon, longtime adviser to trump, run his campaign in 2016. mark meadows, his less white house chief of staff, both of these gentlemen, we think, are preparing to argue to the court themselves that they don t have to comply with this investigation themselves because it is not a proper investigation. but it seems to be one of the grounds on which steve bannon and mark meadows are justifying
is really fast. is that true? absolutely true, rachel. this is lightning pace. this is the, usain bolt, of court calendars. ordinarily and appellate case like this could take up to a year. by the time all the briefing is held, all the or arguments are done, and then the court considers it an issues in opinion and like the supreme court it is only three judges. it is not nine justices. still, they exchange opinions and go back and forth. it can really take many many months, if not a year for a case like this to come out. for it to happen in a matter of weeks like this really is lightning fast. now, the appeals court did say that while it issued is very blunt ruling, today, an ace three oh count among those three judges. they have stayed, effectively, the implementation of this ruling. for 14 days to give trump the chance to appeal this to the knighted state supreme court. what do you think will happen there, and what will happen in