And so the "school year" is coming to a close...
Merrick Garland got an "A+"
donald got an "F"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-mar-lago-suit-ends-010506997.html
Trump Mar-a-Lago suit ends after former president declines to appeal ruling
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump declined Thursday to appeal a court order ending his lawsuit challenging the FBI’s seizure of documents from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, paving the way for investigators to finally get hold of the bulk of documents collected in the search.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week
dismissed the lawsuit he filed after the Aug. 8 search. The appeals court overturned U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s order appointing a special master to review the trove of documents federal agents recovered and preventing the government from using them in its investigation into Trump’s possession of sensitive records.
The appeals court had given Trump until Thursday to appeal to the full 11th Circuit or the Supreme Court and try to get a stay before the order took effect. No appeal was filed.
While Trump's team had little hope of overturning the ruling, the decision not to attempt an appeal — which was first reported by
CNN — is somewhat surprising. After the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, a top Trump adviser familiar with his legal strategy said Trump would probably “appeal everything to the Supreme Court,” adding, “We’re fighting everything.