Our Constitutional Republic faces a clear and present danger more deadly than that of the Civil War. The danger is the Republican Party, a "political party" that has sold out to white supremacy, autocracy, misogyny, and hatred of everything our Nation stands for. Republicans dismiss any sense of a common American narrative. The "Republican Party" is an outlier in our history – ideologically extreme; contemptuous of social and economic policies that have sustained us for a century; unwilling to compromise; dismissive of evidence, fact, and science; dismissive of the legitimacy of any viewpoint except their own. America needs to face the simple, frightening fact that the Republican Party is a clear and present danger to our Constitutional Republic.

Judge Chutkan responds to Trump filing: NO.

JUST IN: Judge Chutkan has issued a 50-page ruling that largely rejects Trump’s demands for more discovery from the federal government.

She notes that Trump could bear responsibility for the Jan. 6 attack even if he didn’t explicitly instruct people to attack the Capitol:

Chutkan says Trump’s demand for more evidence about foreign interference in 2020, as well as his demand for the classified 2016 Russian interference report from ODNI has no connection to his actual state of mind during the alleged crimes.

One area where Chutkan threw Trump a bone: his request for information about the investigation of Mike Pence’s handling of classified info. Trump has said this could have been a motivation for Pence to testify to Jack Smith, and Chutkan says impeachment evidence is a valid ask.

Link to ruling: https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2023cr0257-263