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Ocelot II

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7. It was what's called an Article 78 petition -
Fri Oct 6, 2023, 12:21 PM
Oct 2023

normally used to try to prevent a judge or other official from doing something unlawful or abusing their authority (it sounds something like a writ of prohibition).

According to New York state law, judges who get hit with this kind of lawsuit are typically represented by the AG’s office. But that would naturally create a conflict here, because the judge is overseeing a case involving the AG. So the court system itself is providing his lawyers, and he’s expected to take no stance at all as the case makes its way through a five-person appellate panel in the next two weeks. On paper, however, the case still creates the appearance of an us-versus-them scenario, with Trump on one side and the judge and AG on the other.

Peress said the decision to target Engoron this way is nothing more than a political gambit—and an empty one at that.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-trumps-gambit-to-get-rid-of-judge-arthur-engoron-by-suing-him

I guess TFG's lawyer-like homunculi finally decided this wasn't such a great idea after all.

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