early. i don t know that there s a good reason why the judge needs to make these public in the first place, but the burden really is on the justice department to come in and make that case to him. . susan, what about the new york times , the president seized the opportunity. did mueller underestimate the political climate? i think mueller decided the political climate was not his assignment, that he had a particular assignment to investigate, which he did, which he did with meticulous care and announced his results in a way that left both sides dissatisfied because he neither said case close, as the white house would have preferred, nor did he make an impassioned statement about the need for
american people. it s a victory for our justice system. when our individual rights are taken away, when the majority decides that an unpopular group of individuals should be treated differently, and they can t succeed at the ballot box because they are unpopular or because they are a minority, because they are viewed differently by a number of people in the populist they turn to the courts of the united states and we have a spectacular constitution that values equality and values fundamental rights and values an independent judiciary to protect and vindicate those rights. i have to say that this case has been phenomenal because the chief judge of the federal district court of the northern district of california and san francisco, judge vonn walker, handled this case with meticulous care, with