because the court of appeals heard a major concession, see what i did there, from the lawyer from a former president who has refused to concede that he lost the election, and he did lose that election. before today trump s lawyers were absolutely, what s the word, adamant, totally convinced that the president has absolute immunity from trump s conduct while of course he was in office. they wouldn t even budge on this point. well, first they wouldn t budge. right out of the gate with question from one of the judges in the federal court, they were forced to make a powerful concession, that of course there is not absolute immunity meaning, you can never charge a former president for action taken while in office, if it was criminal or otherwise? they could see that you can prosecute under certain circumstances. and they only admitted that after the judge gave them a whole string of hypotheticals, there s only one legitimate truthful answer could a president who ordered sealed
now two points the concession was atrocious. he was a dead man walking after that, it really does destroy is a whole clean. at the top level, trump is losing. but i did see kind of ripples below where the judges were talking among themselves, trying to figure out the right standard here. if they depart even a little bit, from what judge chutkan has said they might remain, and my concern is there potentially occasion after judge chutkan applies what they tell her to do, a new round and more delays. that is the work. they didn t seem to be talking to themselves and trying to puzzle out the right answer. rebound of course means going back to laura cartridge to decide. here the, lose apply. the big picture takeaway from today? donald trump conduct here is so extreme in attempting to keep a hold of the oval office