Until this week, no one with any courage had standing to challenge Mueller. But now that Bannon has received a subpoena to be interviewed by Mueller’s grand jury, Bannon has the legal right to move to quash the subpoena. Unlike everyone else, Bannon has the guts, grit, determination, and clear thinking to see the forest not just the trees and put the axe to the root.
Manafort has already sued Mueller et al
Unfortunately, actual and serious prosecutorial misconduct (and law enforcement misconduct generally) is very, very rarely punished.
There are various reasons why this is so, but the message for many years has been very clearly sent that prosecutors and law enforcement can get away with nearly all of their misconduct without court interference.
Call Steven Hatfill as a witness!
Everyone that Mulehead’s kangaroo courts subpoenas should challenge its legitimacy. There is plenty already in the public domain to demonstrate what an illegal farce it is.
My biggest complaint? Why the F* is it Freedom Watch\Judicial Watch doing the heavy lifting? WFH is the DOJ & Sessions? (Oh, I know, he approved of the fiasco out West...).
Manafort should also challenge the validity of the Special Counsel regulation promulgated by the Justice Department.
The DOJ regs purport to grant a Special Counsel “the full power and independent authority to exercise all investigative and prosecutorial functions of any United States Attorney.” 28 C.F.R. § 600.6
But a congressional statute requires that US Attorneys be confirmed by the Senate. 28 U.S. Code § 541
See https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3560542/posts
The DOJ cannot on its own create de facto US Attorneys that are not approved by the Senate. This was a drafting defect, and the Special Counsel regulation should have more narrowly made a Special Counsel’s power derivative to that of the AG.
It has been pointed out that Special Counsel Mueller has formed an office with more attorneys than the US Attorney for the District of Rhode Island.
Also, his jurisdiction is effectively unlimited, as seen by the Manafort prosecution which is unrelated to supposed Russian-Trump election collusion but apparently believed by Mueller to come under the heading of anything he stumbles across in his investigation, whether or not having to do with Russian-Trump election collusion.
And of course, the Special Counsel appointment itself failed to specify a crime that was to be investigated, itself a violation of the DOJ regs.
Larry Klayman who should be AG instead of Rip Van Sessions.