No Pseudonymity for Attempt to Get President-Elect Trump Disqualified and to Allow Him to Be Privately Prosecuted
From Doe v. Chutkan, decided today by Chief Judge James Boasberg (D.D.C.):
In this pro se lawsuit, Plaintiff John Doe seeks, first, a court declaration that President- elect Trump is constitutionally ineligible to serve as President and the Supreme Court’s recent decision holding otherwise is “void”; and, second, an order requiring Defendants Judge Tanya Chutkan and Attorney General Merrick Garland to preserve and provide Plaintiff grand-jury materials and other documents so that he and other private citizens may “prosecute” President-elect Trump.
Plaintiff moves here to proceed pseudonymously on the ground that bringing this lawsuit will “expose [him] to retribution.” As Plaintiff has not made the detailed showing required to overcome the presumption in favor of disclosure, the Court will deny the Motion, subject to any further consideration by the United States District Judge to whom this case is randomly assigned….
Generally, a complaint must identify the plaintiffs. That requirement reflects the “presumption in favor of disclosure [of litigants’ identities], which stems from the ‘general public interest in the openness of governmental processes,’ and, more specifically, from the tradition of open judicia
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