I never said the new judge couldn’t cite those previous results, only that she is not required, or mandated to. And it is laughable for you to claim that single circuit course case, that has never even been challenged much less held up on appeal, is “settled law.” These are the kind of statements from Trump supporters that make them sound like gullible rubes.
Its been settled to this point. Nobody has ever challenged it. The Federal Courts or of course the SCOTUS could always overturn this decision and rule the Presidential Records Act means something else, but then Trump could raise the defense that he had relied on the law as it was interpreted by the federal courts up until that decision - and as such, that would defeat any mens rea on his part. After all, you can't either take, withhold or obstruct the return of something you had a right to take and keep and had no obligation to hand over.