“The Clerk of the Court is directed to file on the public docket the Government’s ‘Motion for Leave to File Unredacted Motion Under Seal, and to File Redacted Motion on Public Docket.’ It is hereby ORDERED that Defendant shall file under seal any objections to the proposed redactions in the Government’s Motion for Immunity Determinations by 12:00 PM on October 1, 2024, and shall file under seal any objections to the proposed redactions in the Appendix to that Motion by 5:00 PM on October 10, 2024,” writes DC Circuit Judge Tanya Chutkan in an order that sure makes it sound like she’s going to be “fair” to convicted felon former President Trump’s team in the DC post-2020 election coup attempt case before she goes ahead and unseals a lot of shit the fat bastard does not want voters to be reminded of less than a month before he tries to return to power.

Chutkan’s order was in response to a new Friday filing by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith which read, in part, “The process proposed here is based upon what the Court has previously directed in this case. Consistent with that prior litigation, the Government’s proposed redactions take into account DC Circuit precedent and three other relevant guideposts… [blah blah blah]… With these guideposts in mind – and with the simultaneous goals of providing the Court with a detailed factual proffer; protecting Sensitive Materials and the witnesses whose accounts support that proffer; and allowing an appropriate degree of public access – the Government has proposed redacted versions of its sealed Motion and sealed Appendix for filing on the public docket.”

Shorter version: Smith already gave a (pre)dacted version to Chutkan, and now it seems the judge is just going to toy with Trump’s lawyers to see if they can find a basis to argue – something, anything, other than “THIS ISN’T FAIR BECAUSE ELECTION INTERFERENCE,” purposely ignoring the irony of that they’re only there because their fat shit client tried to steal the last election.