DOJ's manual: "Mandamus is an extraordinary remedy, which should only be used in exceptional circumstances of peculiar emergency or public importance...The power...is limited to the enforcement of nondiscretionary, plainly defined, and purely ministerial duties." This looks right https://t.co/D0Ugtfqvj2— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) September 20, 2019
BUT: The statute precludes judicial review only of “an action” taken by the DNI or the IG (§3033(k)(5)(F)), not of the DNI’s failure to take the ministerial and purely mechanical act required of him by §(k)(5)(C)(transmitting the report re a matter of “urgent concern”) https://t.co/c5r5HpO4DB— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 20, 2019