Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Still more mandamus

From the Eleventh Circuit, compelling Judge Cannon to act on certain long-pending motions (media members seek to intervene and compel release of the special counsel's report) in the Trump documents prosecution.

This is a good example of the courts of appeals using mandamus not to address otherwise-unappealable large matters but to exercise supervisory authority over lower-court judges, ensuring things proceed as they should.