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Rutledge sits out a defense of Trump

Dog bites man. Attorney General Leslie Rutledge is NOT among the Republican attorneys general filing a spurious argument against the investigation of Donald Trump for taking government documents, including highly sensitive intelligence material, home with him.

Eleven states joined in what is essentially a political news release critical of President Biden, a filing bereft of any meaningful argument that the Justice Department is not doing its lawful job protecting government material.

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Texas’s Ken Paxton and 10 other GOP state attorneys general came to the defense of former president Donald Trump on Tuesday in his legal fight over documents the FBI seized last month, filing an amicus brief in a federal appellate court that argued the Biden administration could not be trusted.

In a 21-page document that repeated numerous right-wing talking points but that experts said broke little new legal ground, the officials accused the Biden administration of “ransacking” Mar-a-Lago, the Florida home of the former president, during an Aug. 8 court-authorized FBI raid and of politicizing the Justice Department.

 

Rutledge has frequently joined Paxton stunts before. A rare burst of sanity?

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