Reporters Group Asks Judge To OK Release Of Mueller Report’s Grand Jury Materials
And good luck to them.
Wouldn’t that be interesting: getting the grand jury materials before Barr lets go of the actual report?
Keep up the pressure on all fronts!
No one should have to ask.
Releasing the Mueller Report should be automatic.
“The public’s need for access to the Special Counsel’s Report, to the greatest extent possible, unquestionably outweighs the ordinary interests that grand jury secrecy is designed to uphold,” the group’s Monday court filing said.
Pffft. This is just what Enemies of the People would say.
That is the worst possible outcome for Trump. The Mueller Report will center around the technicalities of the the Criminal Code. To the extent that he can limit Congress to that standard, he has succeeded.
But, if rather than get the Mueller report, Congress gets the Grand Jury materials and draws its own conclusions, its hard to see how that doesn’t turn into evidence for Articles of Impeachment.
I’m one of the hold outs that believes that even if the Senate Republicans refuse to convict the President, the House has a duty to pursue oversight up to impeachment because future Presidents should understand that they are not kings, even if this one lacks the mental capacity to understand such a thing.
But when he’s acquitted in the Senate, future presidents won’t get the message that you are trying to convey. They will get the message that they CAN get away with it.
Yes, although, in general, one wants to be cautious about raw – which is to say, unconfirmed – accusations offered to a grand jury by witnesses who may each have an axe to grind.
I agree with you insofar as explicitly ruling out impeachment is a terrible idea, no matter how carefully conditioned the statement.
Go at them from every direction. Nadler is getting ready to subpoena the report, let everyone get in there and take a bite of Barr. It is about time Barr is waking up to the truth that he is not immune to ETTD.
Barr lived inside the bubble and doing so cut him off from the real danger he would face while doing Trumps dirty bidding. Now he finds out.
x infinity.
Isn’t this true either way?
I’m at the point of accepting that as long as the same party controls two (or three) branches of government that “they can get away with it”.
Oh, it’s a given that this Senate would fail to convict and remove, but I still think the stink of having been impeached will be very hard to wash off. We’ll see. And don’t forget, SDNY is still very busy looking in to the Trump Criminal Enterprise. It ain’t over yet.
I don’t buy that particular argument. Its an even worse “message to future Presidents” to have the House refuse to even consider articles of impeachments.
That being said, this seems like a pretty tricky legal argument to make. They are requesting that all GJ matters referenced in a report…that they, and most likely the Judge, haven’t even seen…be turned over to the press.
Turning the John Mitchell Anomaly into the Barr-Mitchell Tradition.
Impeachment should only be undertaken with solid evidence of corruption by the office-holder. My opinion is that the House should Impeach Barr on the basis of Obstruction of Justice, if he refuses to release the Mueller report to the HJC after a lawful subpoena is presented to him. That opens everything up to discovery. Such release or discovery opens up the next action - Impeachment of Trump.
WRT Trump, timing is everything, You want him under a cloud right before the 2020 Election, but you don’t want to give the Senate enough time to hold a fake trial to absolve him. So, Impeaching on, say, Sept. 30th, 2020 would work quite nicely. In that event, the verdict is rendered by the Electorate.
That’s true now, but when Trump’s ratings tank, that will change. You only need about 20 of them. If the economy slows (and it is), and The Mueller Report gets released, and then SDNY comes up with charges to Trump folks, enough of the Senate will change their minds. That’s why impeachment now is dumb. He can claim victim. Impeach him after the above happen, and they will happen.