Tick toc tick toc... Ping.
As we spoke about before, It's starting to get close to that 30 day deadline for the Obama government to file any dispositive motion trying to end the lawsuit. It looks like Obama is going to wait until the last second to respond. I hope he blows off the deadline. I think the Social Security Administration has got nothing that will help Obama...so Obama is hoping for another forgery.
Obama is going to take Lamberth's "scheduling order" past the 30 days by utilizing the "extra time" you spoke about with the weekend, holiday, notified date, et cetera, to the 5th of July. Obama stretching it out because he has bupkis.
well, lawyers notoriously file at the deadline .. but only the most irresponsible among them will just blow off a court ordered deadline. That’s serious business. Deadlines are what keep lawyers awake at night. You could consider deadlines as lawyers’ substitutes for a conscience ;)
However, if they’re smart, they’ll do the equivalent of a Friday night news dump ... just before the govt closes down for the long holiday weekend. NO ONE (except us political junkies) will be paying the least little bit of attention. But it’s not as if it’s be spread all over Page One of the NYT/WaPo whenever it’s filed.
We shall see.
Red, I replied to your post to me before reading the article. It’s got a few factual errors. To put it mildly.
The Lamberth order was issued 6/1. Obama’s speech on the Afghan withdrawal was three weeks later on 6/22 (not the same 24 hour news cycle).
The motion to strike was filed by SSA and if it were *granted* it would be a win for them. As it is, it was (as you know) granted in part, denied in part. (so it could be claimed a ‘win’ by either or both sides).
From what I recall, Judge Lamberth doesn’t authorize proceeding until the 2 ordered documents (amended/redacted complaint and dispositive motion) are filed which we agree will be no later than 7/5. Then he will have to publish a decision on the motion, grant or deny. If he denies, then she can proceed. If he grants, she will appeal.
Contrary to the way this article is written, granting a motion to strike is not in Dr. Tatiz’s favor.
And, as I explained a while back, SSA did not miss a filing deadline yet. The notion that they did is based on not understanding the time frame for the govt to answer a complaint after being properly served.
Given this many errors in the extract posted, I am not inclined to follow the link. I’ll wait patiently to see what the govt files by the 5th. And then for Judge Lamberth’s decision.
The REAL story on all of this eligibility question (of which the SSA/FOIA is a part) is the total failure of the MSS to cover any of it at all. She got that right.