I quickly read the portions involving Whitaker and I was impressed by the self-confidence in the Mueller team’s approach. They don’t care who the supervising AG is. They’re gonna roll how they wanna roll.
Their focus was to get the Appeals Court to focus on the issues at hand in the Andrew Miller appeal and to strike it down as meritless as the district court opinion by Judge Howell more than adequately addresses the matter.
The other thing I find interesting here is that Mueller didn’t take what he perceived to be bait. The issue of appointments authority is the basis of Miller’s law suit. One could see the leaps a court could make to review that authority as it applies to both Whitaker and as to Mueller. Mueller doesn’t want delays and he doesn’t want Courts obsessing over this issue. He wants Miller to testify and he wants the Miller case dismissed.
Finally, Mueller doesn’t need to address the issue of Whitaker because there are at least 3 other cases which are challenging that appointment in different courts.
Great to hear from you, Mr. Mueller!
We’d love to hear much, much more from you, very, very soon…
Claim Rated: TRUE!!!
Bobby Three Sticks don’t take no shit from MAGAts!
Mueller has the ball and is running towards the sidelines when he demonstrates his wicked stiff arm!
WaPo has this unsettling editorial.
There was no need to take the bait… The issue before the Court of Appeals is if Mueller was correctly/legally appointed back in 2017. Roger Stone’s punk refused to answer questions under oath and has been found in contempt. What happened after that does not change the legality of Mueller’s appointment, or request for Roger Stone’s punk to appear and testify.
All Mueller says is that if this guy can (a) show some harm in the change of overseeing authority, well then he can (b) raise it in the Court below. Put another way, if Mueller were to indict someone today, an indictment that was approved by the Iowa Fraudster acting as AG, well then they might have a challange, but this guy does not, since the impact on him was done where there was not issue re supervision.
And P.s. the tell on whether Whitaker is obstructing justice is if both he and Rosenstein sign off on any actions. If so, there is not a legal issue, and any person trying to let DOJ work would simply supervise, but also have Rosenstein sign off. If Whitaker does not, he is intentionally trying to create issues.
Consider the possibility that it’s more straightforward than all that.
The only reason today’s document was submitted is that the Court, about two weeks ago, asked both parties to file a brief “addressing what, if any, effect the November 7, 2018 designation of an acting Attorney General different from the official who appointed Special Counsel Mueller has on this case.”
Today’s document answers that question, and it does so very easily because the answer is obvious:
That’s really all there was to it.
Sir, you are about to be Tweeted. 
“… quoting a Nixon-era Supreme Court precedent backing Mueller’s position in the case.”
Oh snap!
“The ascension of Matthew Whitaker to acting attorney general “neither alters the Special Counsel’s authority to represent the United States nor raises any jurisdictional issue,” the Mueller team said in the filing.”
Because Fat Nixon has been telegraphing his intent for over a year now, Mueller has been ready with his arsenal of magic bullets ever since he was first appointed.
And while Mueller and his team never directly communicate with those of us outside the investigation, he does do so in very subtle but telling ways thru his indictments.
I won’t belabor the tired X dimensional chess/checkers/tic-tac-toe metaphor but MuellerCo has always been several steps ahead. I suspect they have their case wrapped up and ready to go and these ongoing interviews are just further confirmation.
To quote the late Tom Petty, the waiting is the hardest part.
Ever the professional…
The selection of Mueller (or Muller as the article inconsistently states) was clearly the right choice for this appointment as special counsel.
Everything is calm and above reproach.
Well done sir.
Maybe trumps next gambit will be to try and nominate Mueller as AG… Trump would then say Mueller is conflicted just for being nominated (even if he doesnt accept)
I’m not saying this gambit is smart…
Thanx for that explanation. It reinforced the article in a way that has this legal neophyte breathing a little easier, the Whitaker appointment notwithstanding. 
“The filing was in the legal challenge to Mueller’s authority brought by Roger Stone aide Andrew Miller…”
Shorter Mueller:
So slightly O/T but who was Session’s chief of staff before Whitaker? Whatever happened to him (has to be a him because Sessions is from Alabama)?
And a 2-dimensional Roger Stone.
To quote the late Tom Petty, the waiting is the hardest part.
Also, "I won’t back down. (Hey, baby – there ain’t no easy way out.) "
“Damn the torpedoes” (I know, I know. Album, not a song but still appropriate).