Andrew Weissmann

I don't deal with the sort of the political realities of it.

That's sort of your area.

My point is there is a tool.

There is something like if you're asking what can Congress do, they have the tools in the same way that they had the tools and they voted by quite a lot, meaning unanimously minus one with respect to the documents.

They can do the same thing with Ghislaine Maxwell.

After all, if the deputy attorney general thought that he should sit down with her for two days and interview her, shouldn't he be saying, sure, absolutely, bring her to Congress?

So the judge's decision is consistent with all of the other judges who had had to confront this, which is just a sign that Donald Trump keeps on appointing people as U.S.

attorneys who are so unqualified that the judges, after the 120 days, the way the statute works is unqualified.

Trump gets the first 120 days.

And then after that, the judges get to choose.

Now, in normal circumstances, the judges just go ahead and choose the person who the president chose for the first 120 days, because they're not looking at this from a partisan way or a policy decision.

They're just saying, look, it's the person competent and they do the job.

And so they almost always do that, but not in this administration.

So that's why you have Alina Haba

having been ruled, nope, illegal, and the judges won't appoint her.

Same thing would happen, I think, with Lindsey Halligan.

So this is happening around the country.

That's sort of just to say there's nothing unusual about this decision.

This is totally in keeping with what has happened with this administration trying to avoid a congressional statute, trying to avoid what the Constitution requires, which is that there be Senate approval of U.S.

attorneys.