The watchdog organization American Oversight, which is not a party to the case, successfully petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to accept its friend-of-the-court brief on the ground that it provides a “unique perspective.”
Indeed it does. The brief makes the apparently compelling argument that the court shouldn’t be hearing this appeal at all because it lacks jurisdiction — that is, the power to consider it in the first place. If the court agrees, it would mean dismissing the appeal and returning the case to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, abruptly aborting Trump’s best opportunity to delay the federal Jan. 6 trial.
As if Republicans felt shame.
They do, but it needs a group of people laughing at one of them. Republicans, and by extension any authoritarian, hates being thought of being laughed at or humiliated. They are unable to recover and will dwell on it permanently, like how Trump stole his brothers inheritance because of a mashed potato incident when he was 7.
Humiliation works beautifully on the right.