A high court challenge to President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general appointment equates the president to King George III and accuses the Solicitor General’s Office of misleading the court with “inaugural-crowd-level math.”
Veteran Supreme Court litigator Thomas C. Goldstein, of Goldstein and Russell, Bethesda, Md., filed the unusually no-holds-barred reply brief in relation to a motion to substitute Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for Matthew Whitaker as the acting attorney general.
High court briefs with strong language may gain attention from a wider audience, but they likely won’t change the outcome of the case, a high court watcher told ...
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