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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts) Mon Nov 26, 2018, 09:09 AM Nov 2018

Legal analyst Maya Wiley: Whitaker "absolutely has the power to stop" Mueller indictments

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Legal analyst Maya Wiley: Whitaker "absolutely has the power to stop" Mueller indictments (Original Post) Miles Archer Nov 2018 OP

If he tries to stop them it will leak and all hell will break loose. Quixote1818 Nov 2018 #1

An unconfirmed cabinet appointment hasn't legal standing to stop any prior legal appointee's work. ancianita Nov 2018 #2

Quixote1818

(28,928 posts)

1. If he tries to stop them it will leak and all hell will break loose.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Mon Nov 26, 2018, 03:13 PM

Nov 2018

He will have to explain why he is doing such and he will need a good reason.

ancianita

(36,023 posts)

2. An unconfirmed cabinet appointment hasn't legal standing to stop any prior legal appointee's work.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Mon Nov 26, 2018, 07:00 PM

Nov 2018

The House should act against an AG unconfirmed by Congress. How that would work isn't for me to know, but bottom line, by constitutional authority, they should muster the legal recourse against his appointment, and render anything he tries to do illegal.

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