As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, final night time Donald Trump filed an emergency software to the Supreme Courtroom asking the excessive courtroom to overrule a part of the Eleventh Circuit’s order within the Mar-A-Lago warrant case. Particularly, the temporary makes a pendent appellate jurisdiction argument that the appellate courtroom can’t overview the particulars of what’s earlier than Particular Grasp Raymond Dearie.

Within the temporary, Trump legal professional Chris Kise makes a really restricted argument, astutely characterised by Steve Vladeck as one thing a great legal professional does as a way to appease an terrible consumer, “The jurisdictional argument is slender, technical, and non-frivolous. It’s a method of submitting *one thing* within the Supreme Courtroom with out going all the best way to crazytown and/or appearing unethically.”

And in case you’ve spent any quantity of the final 24 hours anxious in regards to the submitting, I recommend you learn Vladeck’s complete Twitter thread as he particulars why the argument isn’t more likely to be a winner, and even whether it is, it’s not a giant deal. Then you may flip your nervousness again to the gasoline disaster OPEC has artificially created to tank the midterm elections. Wheeee — what a time to be ALIVE!

However that doesn’t imply we should always simply ignore the temporary. As Lawrence O’Donnell identified on his MSNBC present final night time, there’s one thing attention-grabbing on web page 30 of the SCOTUS software:

“In describing Donald Trump’s relationship to those paperwork, after saying of their Supreme Courtroom attraction tonight, as soon as once more, that this case is, ‘primarily a doc storage dispute,’ the Trump attorneys, on web page 30, went on to say ‘the Authorities has sought to criminalize President Trump’s possession and administration of his personal private and presidential data.’”

And, possessing the categorised paperwork is a giant no-no… which is why filings have beforehand averted that individual flip of phrase.

Take a look at O’Donnell’s take beneath.

Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Legislation, host of The Jabot podcast, and co-host of Considering Like A Lawyer. AtL tipsters are one of the best, so please join together with her. Be at liberty to e mail her with any ideas, questions, or feedback and observe her on Twitter (@Kathryn1).