Posted on 10/25/2019 2:05:55 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Department of Justice (DOJ) must hand over to Congress certain redacted information from Robert Mueller's special counsel report, a federal judge ruled Friday in a major win for House Democrats investigating President Trump.
The opinion from D.C. District Court Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, ruled that House Democrats on the Judiciary Committee had proven that they have a justifiable reason for obtaining the records related to Mueller's grand jury now that they are pursuing an impeachment inquiry into the president.
And Howell ruled that the House does not need to authorize the Democrats' impeachment inquiry with a floor vote in order to be legitimate, in a full-throated rebuke of the president's attacks on the proceeding.
"In carrying out the weighty constitutional duty of determining whether impeachment of the President is warranted, Congress need not redo the nearly two years of effort spent on the Special Counsel’s investigation, nor risk being misled by witnesses, who may have provided information to the grand jury and the Special Counsel that varies from what they tell [the House Judiciary Committee]," Howell wrote in her decision.
The order directs DOJ to turn over all information that was redacted from the Mueller report in order to protect grand jury secrecy. That includes more than 240 redactions from the first volume of the report alone. Howell gave DOJ until Wednesday, Oct. 30, to comply.
A Justice Department spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The White House and congressional Republicans have argued that the Democrats' impeachment inquiry is illegitimate because it hasn't been authorized by a vote in the House.
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How convenient.
Are the Democrats going to leak the names and addresses of the jurors now?
When you can predict a judge’s decision based on who appointed him, we don’t have a judiciary.
This will be appealed or enjoined. They will get nothing.
If Mueller couldn’t find it in his own report, why would anyone else?
Total asshole.
This type of ruling goes right to the heart of the separation of powers in the U.S. government. The Federal judiciary has no business adjudicating disputes like this between the executive and legislative branches of government in the first place. An “impeachment inquiry” has no legal meaning in a court proceeding.
This is going to sound nuts but I feel as though I am watching a contest to see which person(s) releases damning evidence first.
Barr will tell the court to pound sand.
Barr will tell the court to pound sand.
He who crosses first wins.
Let's hope it's our President.
Didn’t they do this already a few months ago and Barr told them to get stuffed because it’s his report ?
That is very true
The judge should have ordered the Dems to conduct impeachment in the traditional manner before issuing this ruling.
“Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee”
That is all we need to know.
I highly doubt a judge can hand down such edicts whenever...hope they tell the judge to take a flying leap.
The real show is just starting, and it doesn't follow the flailing and failing narrative that the dims set up to try and deflect from what is coming via Barr and Durham.
All of this Fire and Fury from Shiff for brains and Porky Pig signifies nothing other than a distraction from the main event.
Let them drool all they want. Their comeuppance is approaching.
So much for Legality regarding protecting Witnesses who are not under investigation who Testify to a Grand Jury.
Wait, wouldn’t that make those same Witnesses Whistleblowers?
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