Comment Re:"Helping push the legislation through" (Score 1) 50
Agreed. Someone commented that a political crisis, especially one of your own making, isn't one of the valid reasons to release grand jury information. As you noted, throwing this to the courts will just result in (a) delay and (b) the judge as the withholding scapegoat. It's ironic, though predictable, that in this case the Trump DOJ will be willing to abide by a judicial ruling rather than following Emil Bove's advice of F-U.
Trump's action of suing the WSJ and Rupert Murdoch over the story about his apparent birthday card to Epstein is a similar ploy. Pursuing this will require depositions, under oath, from Trump, probably with inconvenient questions about his relationship with Epstein - which he definitely won't do while in office - forestalling any progress until he's out of office, while currently rallying his base around him, as the story and his denial seem to be doing. It's also not clear that a sitting President can even sue someone about personal things while in office, even from just a practical standpoint. (There are rules/laws against suing the President and you'd think the reasons for them are reciprocal.) In any case it seems he'll be using the DOJ as his personal attorneys while Congress and SCOTUS sit idly by.