Cont: Mueller Investigation pt3

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Roger Stone has been saying for about six months that Roger Stone is about to be indicted.

Still, it can't be that far off if any of the reporting about Mueller focusing on associates of Stone is accurate. And I think that just demonstrates how Mueller is further off Trump than some reports would have it (and have been having it for a year). Stone is a small fish, and Mueller isn't going to move from Stone straight on to Trump.

It's perhaps worth noting, though, that it's being reported that a key reason for Trump's current funk is anxiety over Mueller, which makes sense given that he's started attacking him again.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
just goes to show how clever Mueller is: he is forcing Trump to chose among different narratives.
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https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1063213142405201920

I've said since mid-2017 that Trump won't answer Mueller's questions. And here we are:

* Refused live interview
* Refused obstruction questions
* Refused to answer key questions
* Refused to give original answers^

^He's said most/all answers will be quotes from past statements.
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I love how Vox puts Trump's non-sequitur response to the Daily Caller's question about the AG position.

The issue with Whitaker is whether a person who holds a DOJ job that isn’t Senate-confirmed can serve as acting attorney general. Nobody is suggesting that Mueller should serve as acting attorney general, so the fact that he isn’t Senate-confirmed has no relevance to anything. Though the sheer quantity of untrue things Trump says is so large that to be merely irrelevant is almost refreshing.
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:D
 
He said to reporters that he wrote his own answers to the questions - "They were my answers. I don't need lawyers to do that... they're not very difficult questions"


Please let this be true!
 
Belz... said:
I mean there's something we don't know.
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Aside from the obvious, you mean. That he's a self-serving slimeball with no regard for anything but his grip on power?

Like maybe there's some dirt about him he expects Mueller to uncover sooner or later (if he hasn't already)?

Like if (when?) Trump swirls down the drain he'll get caught in the undertow?

Probably.
 
Looks like a number of people are going to their lump of coal in their stockings a bit early this year.
 
Lawyers are asking the SCOTUS to rule on Whitaker immediately:

The lawyers also ask the court to take up the case without waiting for lower courts to rule, as it ordinarily would, because the issue is "a pure question of law" and could arise in "thousands" of cases.

"If this Court declines to resolve this question immediately and instead determines several months in the future that Mr. Whitaker’s appointment was always invalid, then 'unwinding' all of those personal orders would be a fraught and disruptive exercise that could embroil the federal courts in innumerable collateral disputes," the lawyers write in asking the Supreme Court to take up the issue immediately.
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Linky.
 
Darat said:
Is that common for this type of matter?
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Not common since this is pretty unusual. However I can see why the 9 Supremes might go this route. When I was an immigration officer I would undertake enforcement actions based on a statement in the la that says "The Attorney General will remove any alien who..." Now, the AG isn't doing that himself; I would do it for him. Can I act on behalf of an AG who isn't really the AG?

It's not just immigration law this impacts. Nearly all actions conducted by the Department of Justice are done because the law says "The Attorney General will...".
 
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