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Mueller’s Investigation Crosses the Legal Line
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 13 May 2018 | Steven G. Calabresi

Posted on 05/13/2018 8:33:49 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss

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To: heights

Why should Trump fire him? What have we learned since this began? (1)That corrupt US intel officials worked closely with foreign intel officials to attempt to destroy Trump. (2) The leadership of the fBI was corrupt. (3) The leadership of the Department of Justice was corrupt. (4) The DNC was both corrupt and inept. (5)Hillary Clinton and her cabal were corrupt. (6) The Clinton Foundation was utterly corrupt. (7) That two former FBI Directors are corrupt. (8) That the American media is easily corrupted. (9) That the mainstream media cannot and should not be trusted and that it will turn a blind eye to corruption. (10) That there is very little honor in the Senate. That’s just a start, and I’m sure you can think of more. It does, however, indicate that no matter how slowly the swamp is being drained.


41 posted on 05/14/2018 4:13:41 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Meet the New Boss

Muler ( Myooooler)is part of an extended crime syndicate of liberal fascists at the DOJ and the FBI who want to gather evidence for impeachment , betting that democrats will win the HOuse in November. That’s his true motivation.

Muler is getting desperate because he can find no evidence of impeachable offenses by PDJT , nor can he get Flynn, Mannafort or Cohen to fabricate evidence either, which is why all the hoopla. Muler is desperate and doesn’t care about the law.

Mueler needs to be arrested and prosecuted along with Comey, McCabe, Rosenstein, Brennan, Clapper, Hillary Clinton, and others. Use the RICO statute to do it.


42 posted on 05/14/2018 4:16:17 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

Muleface has deep state dirt on his hands. The only way he gets out of it....is to make the appearance he is the high minded, above the fray, interested in justice guy. When this is over....and someday it will be over.....Mule will walk away quietly. Unlike Comey who keeps opening his mouth and has basically pissed everyone off.

The fall elections is what he is slow peddling for. If the blue wave emerges, he doesn’t have to do anything....Dems will impeach....and he can walk away. If it doesn’t, he knows Trump is untouchable and will walk away. This is theater, not an investigation. Basketball without a shot clock.

There are real investigations going on.....Mule has a stay out of jail free card.


43 posted on 05/14/2018 4:29:22 AM PDT by PSUGOP
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To: Equine1952
IMHO I believe Trump wants this to continue. He gets to play the victim, knowing he can stop this at his liesure It keeps us (his base) PO’d and depresses the left as mueller keeps failing and flailing. We keep voter turn out up and exposing the swamp creatures.

I see your bid and I'll raise you:

Mueller is exercising as broad an investigatory power as has ever been seen before -- and he continues to fail, but Trump will use this precedent to open the floodgates into Deep State/Shadow government exposure, going anywhere his investigators want as they build their cases for 4 existing criminal probes and already impaneled Grand Juries.

FReegards!

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44 posted on 05/14/2018 4:31:55 AM PDT by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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To: Meet the New Boss

1. I hope Judge Ellis reads the WSJ. It truly would be great if he tossed out everything Mannafort prior to July 2016.

2. Anyone who thinks Trump wants the Mueller investigation to continue is delusional. Trump most definitely wants it to end, as do most rational Trump supporters.

3. Rush’s theory was about why Trump doesn’t declassify things, not why doesn’t he fire Mueller. Rush prefaced it, with (paraphrasing) I don’t know why he doesn’t declassify, it is very puzzling. He should. But there are some theories, and I don’t know...one is...etc. (Rush is in favor of declassifying)

4. If Trump could fire Mueller with little political cost, he would in a heartbeat. He’s likely constantly weighing it every day.

5. Nobody knows why he won’t declassify, but he seems to be heading in that direction...again, he is probably weighing that every day, and getting very mixed advice.


45 posted on 05/14/2018 4:46:01 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (President Trump: Please Fire Sessions!!! You have nothing to lose.)
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To: Steelfish
Scalia was right. But thank God he was not in the majority or else we wouldn’t have had Ken Starr, Monica Lewinsky and the Clinton impeachment.

Still doesn't justify something unconstitutional. There are other - legal - ways to hold politicians accountable. Of course most of these require the Washington insiders to actually do the jobs they were elected or appointed to accomplish, and I recognize that's ultimately your point.

46 posted on 05/14/2018 5:20:27 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: PSUGOP

Mule has a stay out of jail free card.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

PDJT is taunting him. And I believe he will overstep to the point where he will be indicted.He is already in violation of Supreme Court law.


47 posted on 05/14/2018 5:22:48 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Meet the New Boss

Mueller has so much power, he can indict Russian companies that don’t even exist.


50 posted on 05/14/2018 5:29:54 AM PDT by IamConservative (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
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To: TBP

“Scalia was right. The statute is unconstitutional.”

And that just confirmed what this investigation is all about. The left is trying to turn the constitution on its head. This may be about something completely different, like the states that are pooling their electoral votes for the winner of the popular vote.


51 posted on 05/14/2018 5:36:26 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (What is a Blue City? First world cities run by third world politicians.)
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To: Meet the New Boss
Fire Rosenstein today. Way past due - NO CRIME HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AND HE REFUSES TO SHOW CONGRESS THE DOCUMENT AUTHORIZING MUELLER'S WITCH HUNT.
52 posted on 05/14/2018 5:51:13 AM PDT by Cheerio (Guns sales have suddenly gone Hogg-Wilde!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Justice will prevail, of course... because whoever wins becomes the justice. That is fine for a banana republic. Rule of men, rather than rule of law.


53 posted on 05/14/2018 6:00:30 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: Meet the New Boss

Be still my heart, someone actually is injected sound reason into this runaway circus train. We cannot have unelected people accountable to unelected people running amuck in our justice system.


54 posted on 05/14/2018 6:12:23 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Meet the New Boss

Mueller crosses the legal line


Shouldn’t that headline be dated from the first week Mueller started?


55 posted on 05/14/2018 6:53:29 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: wmileo

judges who are evil


You are right.

The optimistic “glass is half full” attitude on new Trump appointees doesn’t work when many, many rotten judges are all over the place. Try enforcing immigration laws or making a presidential executive order sometime. Trump can’t, usually.

And locally the rulings in favor of little BLM and LGBT and pro-abortion judges are upheld by the district above them.
Then people say “It will take a few months or years for that ruling to work its way to the Supreme Court.” Where is the “justice” in all that?

Pelosi will be appointed to the Supreme Court by that time. (Sorry if you spilled your cup of coffee over that thought.)


56 posted on 05/14/2018 7:07:00 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: jonrick46; Meet the New Boss; All

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Mr. Rosenstein could legally have brought all the indictments Mr. Mueller has. But he may not delegate that authority to Mr. Mueller, any more than President Trump could delegate his veto power to Mr. Rosenstein
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Better watch that now. That logic, correctly so (IMO), could negate any # of Congressional ‘law’

Federal Reserve
Dept\Agency of XYZ

Anywhere that Congress has delegated its rightful power to an non-elected bureaucratic machine (IE: Only Congress can make Law; but we have rules\reg w/ the FORCE of law...Using the spirit of law to break law).


57 posted on 05/14/2018 7:35:15 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: Max Tactical; Meet the New Boss
If this is true, then the Ken Starr investigation was also a violation - which we know would be a false statement.

No, we don't know that. Clintons are criminals, but the Starr investigation was constitutionally dubious and a dangerous precedent. Ken Starr himself testified that the Independent Counsel law should expire.

Scalia's dissent in Morrison v Olson:

“Under our system of government, the primary check against prosecutorial abuse is a political one,” Justice Scalia wrote. “The prosecutors who exercise this awesome discretion are selected and can be removed by a president, whom the people have trusted enough to elect. Moreover, when crimes are not investigated and prosecuted fairly, non-selectively, with a reasonable sense of proportion, the president pays the cost in political damage to his administration.”
But there is no such political check, he went on, when “an independent counsel is selected, and the scope of his or her authority prescribed, by a panel of judges. What if they are politically partisan, as judges have been known to be, and select a prosecutor antagonistic to the administration, or even to the particular individual who has been selected for this special treatment? There is no remedy for that, not even a political one.”

58 posted on 05/14/2018 9:25:12 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: Meet the New Boss
he may roam the entire country and bring criminal indictments wherever he pleases

He'd best stay away from the DC cherry trees, and angry Deplorables with hemp neckties...

59 posted on 05/14/2018 9:30:20 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
"...There is no remedy for that, not even a political one.”

Yeah, there is - and The Swamp is going to find out to its chagrin exactly what that remedy is.

Too bad it will be just about the last "life lesson" that they'll learn before they're involuntarily enrolled in the Nouveau Spandau Ballet...

60 posted on 05/14/2018 9:43:23 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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