Discussion: Appeals Court Backs Mueller In Challenge Brought By Roger Stone Aide

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Appeals Court Backs Mueller In Challenge Brought By Roger Stone Aide Appeals Court Backs Mueller In Challenge Brought By Roger Stone Aide Back to article
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This is obviously good news for Trump and all those supporting him. It’s precisely the ruling Trump was hoping for. It proves there was no collusion.

So sayeth Sarah Sanders.

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Yet another Trumpworld appellant who thinks that the law is just a game of magic phrases. “If I simply recite certain words in the right order, the justice system will be struck powerless, and I can waltz out of here.” They’re like tax protesters.

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Next stop - Plead the Fif.

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I presume this was rejected under the legal principle noli tempus perdere, or “Don’t waste the court’s time with this nonsense.”

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Lord…Mueller’s appointment was ‘unlawful’? Just whose country do they think they are trying this case in?

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Unlawful because to some minds a public official appointed by a Democrat is not legally permitted to do anything about it when Republican campaigns go around committing crimes. At least I think that’s how the rigmarole goes.

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These people will try to take this to the SCOTUS, won’t they? Who’s paying for his legal defense? The Pround Boys? An anonymous crazy billionaire?

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“How dare they bring someone in who knows the law and is putting people away!”

Stone is NOT going to like prison

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Ooh! Ooh! It’s on the tip of my tongue. Starts with P…

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The arrogance of theseTrump-related functionaries (perhaps we should say “made men”) is amazing if you think about it. Here’s this guy trying to argue not the facts of the case against him but the actual legality of the appointment of a Special Counsel.

As far as I’m concerned, his lawyers should be held in contempt and disbarred for this legal action.

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Unlawful because to some minds a public official appointed by a Democrat…

Or by a Republican (e.g., Rod Rosenstein), for that matter.

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And he wins!

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Mueller was appointed by a lifelong Republican.

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Stevie lives in the red on the snark-o-meter.

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Turns out that taking your legal advice from Infowars (which my fingers initially wanted to type as Infowards) is not such a hot idea. Whoda thunk it?

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I was thinking of the original investigations with Papodopoulos, Page, the FISA courts etc. that they’ve long screamed were for some reason illegitimate because dossier where’s the server uranium blah blah blah. I know Rosenstein’s a Republican. The overall thrust by not just the Trump clowns but Gowdy and others is that there was an animus against the campaign within the higher levels of Obama’s Justice Department.

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Andrew Miller’s claim is described in the court ruling as “adopting by reference arguments made in a separate case by Concord Management and Consulting LLC.” Pure genius: to explicitly cite the position of a Russian company accused of criminal conspiracy against the United States, whose arguments and courtroom assertions were rejected and severely criticized in federal court on multiple occasions.

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SCOTUS goes unanimous against Miller. No doubt.

If they even take the case.

But I hope they do.

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Every single step in Miller’s argument is closely considered, and shown to be false under federal laws and Supreme Court decisions, in the court’s decision. Score: Miller zero. By continuing to fight the grand jury subpoena, he bought time for other cases to somehow find a way out for him, but instead he’ll find no sympathy and likely a contempt ruling.

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