There have been several good analyses of the Mueller Report Volume II on obstruction of justice. Let’s review some of them. Quinta Jurecic, the Managing Editor of Lawfare, breaks it down in Obstruction of Justice in the Mueller Report: A Heat Map: The Mueller report describes numerous instances in which President Trump may have obstructed … Read more
The Trump administration’s move to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census was argued in the U.S. Supreme Court this morning. First, the case background from the Washington Post, The Four Pinocchio claim at the center of the census citizenship question: [T]he justices could be weighing a Four-Pinocchio claim by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. … Read more
From the Nixon Tapes: John Dean: I think that there’s no doubt about the seriousness of the problem we’ve got. We have a cancer within-close to the presidency, that’s growing. It’s growing daily. It’s compounding. It grows geometrically now, because it compounds itself… Today the husband of the Wicked Witch of the White House, Kellyanne … Read more
President Donald Trump has found a replacement for his bumbling idiot TV lawyer, Rudy Giuliani aka Bat Boy. This morning I watched the shameful performance of the Attorney General of the United States engage in a press conference PR propaganda stunt as Donald Trump’s defense attorney — Baghdad Bill Barr for the defense! Slate’s legal … Read more
The U.S. Department of Justice has released Attorney General William Barr’s redacted version of the Mueller Report. Link to DOJ full report (it is too large a file to embed here). The Atlantic has posted Robert Mueller’s Written Summaries of His Russia Report. These summaries are also too large to recount all of the minutia … Read more