Manafort is asking a judge to end the Mueller investigation. That's his angle.

[NCTraveler]

Ex-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort escalates challenge to Mueller indictment

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul J. Manafort asked a federal court Tuesday to toss out 18 criminal charges against him in Virginia, sharpening his challenge to the legitimacy of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.

The pretrial motions to dismiss an indictment intensified a legal attack mounted by Manafort in a lawsuit in January. In that lawsuit, Manafort contends Mueller has exceeded his legal authority and is asking to void the Justice Department’s appointment of him.

Manafort’s attorneys in January and again in a longer, 38-page filing Tuesday argued that acting attorney general Rod J. Rosenstein improperly ordered Mueller to investigate “links and/or coordination” between the Russian government and Trump campaign, as well as “any matters that arose or may arise directly from” that investigation.

The order gave Mueller “a blank check” that “the Special Counsel has cashed, repeatedly” to prosecute Manafort for alleged conduct that did not arise from the investigation and predates the campaign and which, Manafort’s attorneys argue, prosecutors knew about and declined to pursue in 2014.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/ex-trump-campaign-chair-paul-manafort-escalates-challenge-to-mueller-indictment/2018/03/27/95b2ff14-285a-11e8-bc72-077aa4dab9ef_story.html?utm_term=.4e016b862ac9

[blake2012]

1. Please bounce this out of court immediately, judges!!

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. If it is a trump appointed lawyer, well guess what. You see THIS is the FUCKING

problem with FUCKING nose holding and whining about imperfect candidates, because now VILE FILTH like rump will appoint CORRUPT judges

[NurseJackie]

8. Yeah, those are the ones who whine about needing a reason to vote "FOR" the Democrat...

... rather than "against" the Republican. (But, hey! They've "got their pride" after all.)

And then there are those like Susan Sarandon... she's someone who can she can barely contain her excitement at the horrors that await us. Just LOOK at how giddy and animated she is when talking about Trump being the president. (How nice that she can afford to maintain her lifestyle while the most vulnerable among us suffer because of her vanity and the toxic mindset that she helped to spread.)

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. THe reason she is despicable is she sticks by this

[NurseJackie]

11. Her defenders and apologists are equally contemptable...

... most of her (political) fans have left DU... or perhaps it's just that they've figured out it's smarter to keep quiet about their Sarandon adoration.

[imanamerican63]

3. Mueller is appointed by the DOJ!

No judge can do that, I do not think that is possible?

[zipplewrath]

4. Hard to see how

Mueller went to a Grand Jury so it's hard to see where the court steps in.

[struggle4progress]

5. "Well, see, yer honor, let's take this hypothetical: spoze they wuz investigatin

whether my client was involved in a kidnappin, and instead of that they find he committed a few murders here, and a few rapes there, and was runnin a meth lab. Now that weren't what they wuz spoze be lookin into, right? So it would be just gosh-durn unfair to persecute the pore feller for all that other stuff, wouldn't it? I feels shore you'll see that. It turns a legitimate investigation into a witch-hunt! It ruins his reputation!"

[SummerSnow]

6. Mueller: " ok sure I will" lol

[magicarpet]

7. Nasty.... nasty Mueller is all the problem here...

.... make him go away and tRdump and Manafort can regains the persona and pageantry of Sainthood. These are filthy rich men anointed by God with great wealth and they have never done anything wrong. They would not think of doing such a thing.

[Sneederbunk]

10. His angle is going to get him an effective life term in prison.

[CanonRay]

12. Standard defense lawyer bullshit.

[longship]

13. What is he? Stupid? Full of shit? Fucking nuts?

I say that he's all three!

So does George...

[safeinOhio]

14. A shot in the dark

when all else fails.

[IluvPitties]

15. He is truly delusional.

[triron]

16. This is some kind of sick joke, right?