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"This brief - and I will be reserved about what I'm about to say - reads less like a legal brief than something you might read on a blog," said Mehta, an Obama appointee. "And that's not acceptable. I expect better from you, I expect better from every other lawyer in this courtroom." Mehta conceded that there could be a valid legal argument for why Fischer's client would not be able to receive a fair trial in Washington, but said the lawyer's rhetoric was an inappropriate way to go about raising the issue. "You just can't come in here and...