When Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago was searched last month, the GOP sprang into action. Republicans were willing to go to great and often extremely speculative and unproven lengths to defend him even when we knew very little about the search. This wasn’t just a questionable search, in their view: It was an abuse of power and a political hit job, evidence might have been planted, and so forth.
The fervent support and baseless accusations have died down somewhat since then, as the party grapples with the emerging facts, which paint an increasingly vivid picture of the former president taking highly sensitive documents to his luxury resort.
Enter a group of GOP state attorneys general, who filed an amicus brief in the Mar-a-Lago documents case on Tuesday. The move by the attorneys general for Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and West Virginia would seem, on its face, to be a significant show of support for Trump’s legal case.
Dig a few inches deeper, though, and it’s significantly less than meets the eye. The document is devoted to attacking the Biden administration and its handling of legal matters; it does next to nothing to actually address the case at hand.
The brief opens with some of the greatest hits of the GOP’s attacks on the search itself. The brief calls it an “unprecedented nine-hour search of former President Donald J. Trump’s private residence” and even characterizes it as the Biden...
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