https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/26/trump-lawyers-shutdown-delay-emoluments-case-1075676 Trump lawyers, citing shutdown, ask court for delay in emoluments case https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/12/26/po...own/index.html?r=https://www.google.com/&rm=1 Trump admin seeks pause in immigration-related lawsuits due to shutdown
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/27/mue...-in-jerome-corsi-lawsuit-citing-shutdown.html Judge denies special counsel Robert Mueller’s request to delay hearing in Roger Stone associate Jerome Corsi’s lawsuit over government shutdown A federal judge on Thursday denied a request by special counsel Robert Mueller and several other federal agencies to delay an upcoming hearing in a lawsuit brought by Roger Stone-linked conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi. Mueller and the FBI, CIA, NSA and DOJ cited the ongoing government shutdown in their request for a delay.
More obstruction fodder https://www.vox.com/2018/12/27/18157552/government-shutdown-2018-trump-emoluments-clause-lawsuit Justice Department attorneys representing Trump asked a federal appeals court on Wednesday to postpone indefinitely all further filings in an appeal related to a suit that the governments of Maryland and Washington, D.C., filed over Trump’s alleged violation of the Constitution’s ban on foreign emoluments. The government’s brief is not due until Jan. 22, but DOJ lawyers asked the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Richmond, Va., to put the appeal on ice until the shutdown ends. The federal appeals court overseeing the case agreed to delay the case indefinitely shortly after the Justice Department made its request. The Justice Department’s civil lawyers are typically furloughed during a shutdown, though they are notably allowed to continue working on a case if the court orders it. Federal attorneys filed similar requests to this one in other cases across the country, including, for example, in litigation against Trump’s asylum policies, per Gerstein.