In a 9p order, Judge McBurney wrote that #Trump did not have the #legal standing to make such challenges before #indictments were handed up. The judge said the “injuries” that Trump claimed to have suffered from the 2½-year investigation “are either insufficient or else speculative & unrealized.”
…Judge McBurney, in Mon’s ruling, seemed to have little patience for the arguments from Trump’s legal team, & he suggested that Trump’s lawyers were gumming up the legal process w/ #FrivolousFilings.
“In the future, counsel is encouraged to follow the professional standard of inquiring w/chamber’s staff about timing & deadlines before burdening other courts w/unnecessary & unfounded legal filings,” Judge McBurney wrote.
To the #Trump team’s assertions that Trump would be injured by an #indictment, Judge McBurney appeared to allude to the #FundRaising that Trump’s campaign had done, highlighting the #criminal cases against him.
“For some, being the subject of #criminal investigation can, à la Rumpelstiltskin, be turned into golden political capital, making it seem more providential than problematic,” he wrote in a footnote. “Regardless, simply being the subject (or target) of an investigation does not yield standing to bring claim to halt that investigation in court.”
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