🚨LIVE COVERAGE here of Preliminary Injunction hearing before Judge Breyer on Newsom's lawsuit to commander National Guard from Trump. Trump Administration had requested stay of proceedings pending 9th Cir. decision but Breyer refused. 1/
2/ Breyer claimed facts on ground and changes would be relevant to PI hearing. Watch for him to sidestep 9th Cir. slap down by framing changes on ground as so substantial that no matter how much deference Trump gets he couldn't federalize troops.
3/ Hearing was suppose to start at 10 PT. Hasn't started yet. Here's link as DH has me picking up a plumbing part so I might not be able to cover depending on when it starts. (At least it's at an old hardware store which has new old stock--which I love--not Lowe/Home Depot.
🔥🔥🔥Grassley letter reviews FBI ordered records destroyed in September 2020. This does NOT conform to records preservation requirements...you know thing FBI raided Mar-a-Lago for! 1/
3/ Still trying to put puzzle together but letter of 5/5 provides solid hints. It'd seem that the destroyed record was related to Biden-Ukraine corruption & to fake briefing Dems had FBI do to falsely frame Grassley & Johnson as peddling Russian disinfo. grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
🚨Hearing in Newsom v. Trump re National Guard starts in ~15 minutes. I'll be live-posting in this 🧵. 1/
2/ Hearing starting:
Judge Preliminary Comments: Entered scheduling order directing file of briefs & appreciative of that. It is necessary to have briefing & I have always have done it, even though styled as ex parte, sufficient cooperation to allow complete record as possible given, important--issues significance, and urgency so I need to act expeditiously but takes into consideration the arguments of the parties. That's the fair way to do it and way I've done it over the year and parties have been extremely helpful in this regard.
3/ Judge: Asks to start w/ federal government & wants feds to address several issues: It seems to me that it is necessary to understand whether the president complied with the statute 10406, which has a number of requirements. When Judge acted on desire to nationalized California National Guard he sited this statute.
🚨I began researching this deep-dive at @FDRLST soon after @SenGrassleyIA broke news of the "Prohibited Access" functionality of Sentinel. Inspector General conducted TEN audits of Sentinel & details buried in those report blow-open scandal. 1/