TODAY: The birds and I are up early here at the Prettyman courthouse where I await a hearing before Judge Tanya Chutkan on a protective order sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith in Donald Trump's Jan. 6 indictment. Hearing starts at 10AM ET. Updates to come.

And now, on a Saturday, (appearing unwilling to waste much time) Judge Chutkan has given Donald Trump until 5pm ET Monday to respond to the special counsel's motion for a protective order following Trump's ostensible threat post on social media:

Special Counsel Jack Smith requested a protective order swiftly after Trump's post that, arguably and by any reasonable standard, one could read as an implied threat.

He may not get it yet but perhaps he will be figuring it out soon here in DC.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23898466-show_temp-65

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23898466-show_temp-65