Trump U. Lawsuit and Transition Duties

By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2016
Posted on Sun Nov 13, 2016 at 12:47:26 AM EST
Tags: Donald Trump (all tags)

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Trump's attorney has filed a motion to continue the Trump University trial set for Nov. 28 in San Diego. I just downloaded his lawyer's motion, and 500 pages of attachments, which he filed "ex parte" but isn't sealed. (Case No. 10-cv-00940-GPC-WVG, Low v. Trump Univ. et. al., Document 567, 567-2)

It is simply frightening that someone like Donald Trump is being entrusted with these responsibilities:

In fewer than three months, the President-Elect must be prepared to manage 15 executive departments, more than 100 federal agencies, 2 million civilian employees, and a budget of almost $4 trillion. [citations omitted]. He needs to devote this intensive period to transitioning the vast functions of the federal government to an administration that has yet to be formed. [More...]

And his transition team leaders and national security picks will get security clearances.

The transition period also has significant security implications, particularly because foreign enemies may perceive the United States to be more vulnerable during a Presidential transition. .... As such, the new national security team must be selected, complete security clearances, and be fully briefed along with President-Elect Trump to begin work before the inauguration to ensure the continued safety of the country.6 See Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, Pub. L. No. 108-458, § 7601, 118 Stat. 3638, 3856–58 (2004).

As part of that effort, President-Elect Trump will soon begin to receive the same detailed, top-secret briefings intelligence officials give President Obama.

Among the national security positions he will fill are Defense, Intelligence, State, USAID, IAP, NSC, DHS and NASA.

Presidential transitions are expensive: For this one, Congress has allotted $13 million to cover things like "office staff, travel, office space, and orientation meetings." It will pay for offices in more than one city if requested.

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, includes $13.278 million for activities authorized by the Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010. Pub. L. No. 114-113, 129 Stat. 2242 (codified at 3 U.S.C. § 102 note) (2015). Funding covers, for example, compensation of the President-Elect’s office staff, travel, office space, and orientation meetings for key personnel. Id.

Trump's lawyer, interestingly, is already confusing his client's interest with the public interest. He writes that the factors for a continuanc