If you get bogged down in something, it prevents you from making progress or getting something done. But why get bogged down in legal details?

What does being bogged down mean?

bog down. Become stuck, be unable to progress, as in Their research bogged down because they lacked the laboratory expertise. This expression transfers sinking into the mud of a swamp to being hampered or halted. [

Is Bogged down an idiom?

To slow down or burden someone or something. (A bog is an area of wet, muddy ground that it is difficult to walk through.) Don't bog down your brother with more suggestions—his paper is due tomorrow, so he needs to commit to a topic and just write about it!