Rushed filings are much less likely to survive the court system.
This would suggest a prosecution that is designed to fail once it reaches the courts. In other words, something designed to make noise without changing Google's behavior.
All? One would at least like to know how common this is. In a corporate environment, it would hardly be unusual for a manager to insist on a faster schedule than developers would prefer.
It isn't at all common for the AG to override his department's attorneys' investigative schedules, let alone for political reasons related to his boss's reelection campaign for reasons and stemming from his crew's inability to Stop Lying All Of The Time.
Are you sure? If so, how? Because all the reporting on all of these topics is extremely politicized, and anyone on one side of the equation is guaranteed to say something like this.
Right. But in this case I was replying to a comparison with a corporate environment, which is not actually comparable to the government's situation. The motive is clearly not any true urgency (Alphabet is not changing their corporate behavior enough to avoid these charges if it takes 1 month to finish getting ready or 3).
This would suggest a prosecution that is designed to fail once it reaches the courts. In other words, something designed to make noise without changing Google's behavior.