Justin R. Walker

The thing that strikes me as just odd about this case is this is a law that went into effect 45 years ago, he said.

The third judge on the panel, Judge Justin R. Walker, a Trump appointee, expressed some concerns about the requirements of the law, including whether the mass preservation of documents today could allow a foreign envoy adversary to use artificial intelligence to scan large quantities of presidential records and create a mosaic that could reveal confidential information.

He also pressed Mr. Jacobson on whether Congress could pass a similar law ordering the archiving and public release of the internal records of the Supreme Court or the entire federal jurisdiction.

Internal records of the Supreme Court are considered the personal property of the justices, allowing them to withhold them from the public until long after they have died or destroyed them entirely.

Is she...

Is she in the, yeah, they're making me look like a fool, but we got to tread carefully here because Greg Katsas and Naomi Rao and Justin Walker are just waiting at the D.C.

Circuit for me to put a toe out of line.

Or is she still in the, do I have any reservoir of trust left? Or is she in the these guys? I gave them a little bit of of leeway and they abused it.

Right? And, and, and people we know and people we like saying that, "Of course Alito is gonna hang up his robes on November 4th if Democrats win back the Senate," and, and that would be to let Donald Trump nominate his successor in that lame duck session between November 4th and January 3rd, 2027, when Trump could presumably still get a replacement crammed through.

Um, and, and I am certain that Judge James Ho or Justin Walker, whichever fascist wannabe Donald Trump decides on, would, would be delighted to take on Alito's existing clerks, right? Make sure they, they keep-

Right

... their job.

They just seem like they come up like bad pennies over and over again.

Neomi Rao, Justin, uh, Walker, and Katzas.

And, and if it's, uh, you know, we tell our audience, I mean, I never had to do this before, but I tell my audience if it's gonna be two Trumpers, uh, on a three-judge panel, if they're gonna side with Donald Trump about 99.9% of the time, and I'm always right- I don't wanna be right, but I am right.

And if it's one, they're gonna be in dissent.

And, and as you just laid out, here's, here's a question, and, and you raised this the last time we were talking about this issue with our audience.

Is there some sort of communication or conspiracy between a, a, a judge like Naomi Walker just... or, or, or Naomi Rao or Justin Walker with the White House to try to coordinate these things? And you're trying-

Well-

... to get to the bottom of that

... sitting for an entire month's worth of emergency orders.

Uh, in this case, it was Naomi Rao and Justin Walker, uh, in the panel, and they blocked Judge Boasberg from continuing his contempt inquiry, and then the entire DC Circuit vacated that decision and immediately voted to-

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... rehear the case en banc.

And unfortunately, they got a three-judge panel, two of which were Trumpers.

Judge Justin Walker and Judge Rao.

Rao's trying out for the Supreme Court.

And Walker.