Eleven Republican attorneys general are backing former President Donald Trump, telling a federal appeals court that President Joe Biden’s administration’s “questionable conduct” in other cases should inform its looming decision on records seized by the Department of Justice (DOJ) from Trump.
For instance, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and 10 other attorneys general wrote in an amicus brief that the Biden administration tried to impose immigration policies deemed violative of federal law even after a district court ruled against them. An appeals court soon ordered the administration to stop, finding it had engaged in “gamesmanship in its decision-making.”
In another example, a majority of the Supreme Court said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s eviction moratorium was likely illegal, but the court declined to strike down the moratorium because it was going to soon expire. The Biden administration reimposed the moratorium three days after the expiration, even though Biden acknowledged that it was “not likely to pass constitutional muster.” The Supreme Court then struck it down….