Justice Department must disclose secret Mueller grand jury evidence to Congress, appeals court finds
Source: WaPo
By Ann E. Marimow
March 10, 2020 at 12:25 p.m. EDT
The Justice Department must release to congressional Democrats secret grand jury evidence lawmakers are seeking in ongoing investigations into President Trump, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled Tuesday.
The divided ruling, which can be appealed, is a victory for Democratic lawmakers in one of a set of separation-of-powers lawsuits filed before the House vote to impeach President Trump and his acquittal in the Senate in February.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld a lower court order that requires the department to disclose to the House certain secret material from Robert S. Mueller III's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The 2-1 decision is unlikely to be the final word and can be appealed to the full court or to the Supreme Court.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/justice-department-must-disclose-secret-mueller-grand-jury-evidence-to-congress/2020/03/10/db60e338-3c66-11ea-baca-eb7ace0a3455_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
We're closer to seeing it, at least...
Baitball Blogger
(46,574 posts)Next year will establish law on the subject. They just need to make sure they dont provide law that the Republicans can abuse later.
Mickju
(1,794 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Lock him up.
(6,874 posts)No matter when (the sooner, the better), but we.will.see everything; each.and.every.crime.
Botany
(70,291 posts)aka Barr and the Supreme will try to make sure we never see the Mueller Report.
BTW the DoJ and the Trump administration are not bothered by the rule of law,
court orders, and or subpoenas .... they have to be stopped.
ancianita
(35,812 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,207 posts)orleans
(33,986 posts)Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)lastlib
(22,981 posts)For history, if nothing else. It will give future generations more insight into the depths of corruption this regime plumbed. Knowledge is power.
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)They need to know that "running out the clock" is not an acceptable roadblock.
duforsure
(11,882 posts)If they destroy some of it rather than turn it over?
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)He can turn it over, or face the consequences.
Then the democrats need to MAKE SURE he knows what the consequences are, and that they will be invoked. (Now they just need to come up with what the consequences ARE... )
Let me preemptively guess, the democrats have no power....? They will AFTER January 20, 2021.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)There will come a day when that precedent comes back to haunt them. Not that Dems are crooks like the GOP, but al politically motivated decisions cut both ways.
lastlib
(22,981 posts)I sure hope this stands, but it has a tough road to go yet...... Fingers crossed!
lark
(23,003 posts)We can expect them to continue to say that anything and everything Traitor Tot does is legal and side with him on all issues. I bet they'd even back him if he claimed the election was a fraud (if he's not elected), called a national emergency and overturned it. You can say he can't do that, but he's already doing tons of illegal and unconstitutional things while SCOTUS pretends to "Hear no Evil, See no Evil"...
pecosbob
(7,502 posts)Fifteen federal judges have been impeached. Of those fifteen: eight were convicted by the Senate, four were acquitted by the Senate, and three resigned before an outcome at trial.