For you non-lawyers who have been listening to Supreme Court oral arguments over the past week, I hope it has been illuminating about the mystique of oral argument, and no, I don’t mean the unfortunate failure to mute a toilet flush during oral argument last week. That was a first for me as well. If … Read more
Amy Howe at SCOTUSblog reported on Thursday, DOJ asks court to temporarily block release of secret Mueller grand jury materials: The Department of Justice came to the Supreme Court today, asking the justices to put on hold the disclosure of grand jury materials from the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who in March 2019 … Read more
I want to reiterate everything David Gordon said in his excellent post. Michael Flynn needs to be in Jail; William Barr needs to Resign. But I also want to direct your attention to some ominous signs of the “grand distraction” that the Trump White House and his sycophant supporters in Congress are about to unleash … Read more
Last week Judge Reggie B. Walton sharply criticized Attorney General William P. Barr’s handling of the report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, saying that Mr. Barr put forward a “distorted” and “misleading” account of its findings and lacked credibility before the court. The judge ordered the Department of Justice to privately show … Read more
This is a really big deal. I am not aware of any federal judge at any time having rebuked an attorney general in this way and essentially declaring that the attorney general, and by extension the Department of Justice, has no credibility before his court. William “Coverup” Barr has effectively destroyed the institution of the Department … Read more