Over the weekend, Judge Nachmanoff made it clear that a large amount of discovery material is to be delivered to James Comey today. The prosecution team from North Carolina seem to be engaging in a series of stall tactics to delay this.

The eastern district of Virginia is known informally as the “rocket docket” because of its fast resolution times for cases.

  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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    If you are asking for real; Each side of the case has to give the other side access to what they plan to use as evidence during the case, as well as other documents that may be requested and deemed relevant by the court. This process is called ‘discovery’. The ‘material’ would be the physical data (digital or otherwise) being handed over.

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      The whole thing being enclosed in quotes was supposed to imply that that’s what they’d be asking. Because they are incompetent.