Posted on 05/04/2018 9:29:15 AM PDT by hcmama
A federal judge on Friday harshly rebuked Special Counsel Robert Muellers team during a hearing for ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort suggesting they lied about the scope of the investigation, are seeking unfettered power and are more interested in bringing down the president. "You don't really care about Mr. Manafort, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III told Muellers team. You really care about what information Mr. Manafort can give you to lead you to Mr. Trump and an impeachment, or whatever."
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We are not like that. We should never go there. I would never. Gather a throng of protestors to legally demonstrate against him.
Nice save.......the R/stein memoMuellers authorities are laid out in documents including the Aug 2017 scope memo....a memo issued by Rosenstein several days AFTER the Manafort home raid.
. . . but in fact the raid on Manaforts house was illegal at the time it was conducted. It was done without due process of law.Its possible to imagine a judge getting picky about that . . .
Im not holding my breath, but the right thing for the judge to do would be to declare the Special Persecutor law unconstitutional, on grounds that history, and the behavior of Mueller, has confirmed Scalias dissent
That is what this suit is about. Power. The allocation of power among Congress, the President, and the courts in such fashion as to preserve the equilibrium the Constitution sought to establish. Frequently an issue of this sort will come before the Court clad, so to speak, in sheeps clothing: the potential of the asserted principle to effect important change in the equilibrium of power is not immediately evident, and must be discerned by a careful and perceptive analysis. But this wolf comes as a wolf.rather than the majority SCOTUS opinion in Morrison v. Olson. Let Rosenstein appeal - and then demand that SCOTUS fast-track the case (BTW, I question whether any present members of SCOTUS were on the bench when Morrison was decided).
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