Intriguing premise to this story, although it ignores the effect that right-wing media (e.g. Rush Limbaugh, Fox News) had on Trump’s initial indication to accept the short-term continuing budget resolution as passed by the U.S. Senate.
Department of Justice lawyers representing Donald Trump have asked a federal appeals court to indefinitely postpone all filings in an appeal related to a suit that the governments of Maryland and Washington, D.C. filed over Trump’s alleged violation of profiting from business his Washington hotel does with foreign countries.
Their argument? Because they cannot work during a government shutdown. Politico reports;
“The Department does not know when funding will be restored by Congress,” Justice lawyers wrote. “Absent an appropriation, Department of Justice attorneys and employees are prohibited from working, even on a voluntary basis, except in very limited circumstances, including ‘emergencies involving the safety of human life or the protection of property’. … Undersigned counsel for the Department of Justice therefore requests a stay of briefing on the President’s mandamus petition until Congress has restored appropriations to the Department.”
The court of appeals granted the motion.
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The Secular Jurist 
Makes perfect sense. What a slime he is.
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He’s a parasite.
‘Absent an appropriation, Department of Justice attorneys and employees are prohibited from working, even on a voluntary basis, except in very limited circumstances, including ‘emergencies involving the safety of human life or the protection of property’. …
How appropriate. Only in a corporatocracy is protection of property more important than protection of democracy.
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That makes total sense.
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It does, if the observer sees Trump as Machiavellian. I don’t, and instead see him as mentally incompetent as well as emotionally unstable. From my perspective, his impulsive decision to force a government shutdown was an impromptu reaction to the criticism he was getting from the right-wing media regarding funding for the border wall.
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I think that there are times that he could be Machiavellian, that doesn’t mean that he might be mentally incompetent as well as emotionally unstable. In the closing days of the Third Reich, Hitler was at times all three.
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Indeed, the analogy to Hitler is apropos.
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Yep… one doesn’t disqualify the other at times…
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