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Judge orders DOJ to release grand jury material from Mueller report to Congress
The Hill ^ | 10/25/19 | Harper Neidig

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: berylhowell; clownbammyjudge; coup; fakenews; impeachment; judiciary; politicaljudiciary
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To: yesthatjallen

Howell gave DOJ until Wednesday, Oct. 30, to comply.


Now that’s how Democrats work. 5 days to comply. Compare to the GOP taking 3 years to start a criminal investigation of Deep State Democrats.


21 posted on 10/25/2019 2:33:47 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: JohnnyP

The judge should have ordered the Dems to conduct impeachment in the traditional manner before issuing this ruling.

There is no impeachment inquiry without an official vote.

Go pound sand you ignorant judge.


22 posted on 10/25/2019 2:33:56 PM PDT by Dacula
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To: yesthatjallen

.... Don’t forget that the Democrats find high crimes with anything with Trumps name in it ..... Just look at the Ukraine phone call transcript for an example ..... Imagine what they could make up with the entire Mueller Report ....


23 posted on 10/25/2019 2:34:37 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: facedown

I wonder if the Trump administration will limit self within the narrow confines of what is legally permissible while the democrats ambush them from every conceivable angle outside the confines of the law.

The solution, of course, is to de-classify every conceivable damn document having to do with Crossfire Hurricane. The administration may want to safeguard bogus methods and sources while sending the country down into oblivion.

It is time to pry loose the documents from the hands of corrupt intelligence agencies trying to cover their asses.


24 posted on 10/25/2019 2:35:57 PM PDT by odawg
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To: yesthatjallen
I was just thinking, it's Friday and some a-hole district judge obummer appointee hasn't released an opinion aimed to hurt President Trump....yet.

Oh well,the deep state didn't let me down.

25 posted on 10/25/2019 2:36:14 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: R_Kangel

And just imagine what Easter Eggs Weissmann’s crew left in there for the Dems to “find.” This is Dem oppo research here: The Mueller Dossier.


26 posted on 10/25/2019 2:36:15 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: odawg

It is time to pry loose the documents from the hands of corrupt intelligence agencies trying to cover their asses.


This is why DNI is so critical. I’m skeptical the GOP Senate will ever allow POTUS to have a loyal DNI that does not work for Deep State interests first.


27 posted on 10/25/2019 2:37:24 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: JohnnyP

Does the Trump administration notice how valuable declassification is to democrats if they think it will help their case and squeal like stuck pigs if they don’t?


28 posted on 10/25/2019 2:38:58 PM PDT by odawg
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To: yesthatjallen

She was the federal judge supervising the Grand Jury in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference. - Wikipedia


29 posted on 10/25/2019 2:39:58 PM PDT by Help!
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To: yesthatjallen
I was under the impression that the redactions lend nothing to the Democrats’ coup attempt, but that the White House was concerned about legitimizing an illegal inquiry. We'll see, but this judge is really full of herself.

Meanwhile, I hope the scoundrels find nothing except embarrassments to themselves.

30 posted on 10/25/2019 2:42:44 PM PDT by Missouri gal
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To: yesthatjallen

He who laughs last wins. Dems are playing a dangerous game. They might not want that redacted info.


31 posted on 10/25/2019 2:51:39 PM PDT by .44 Special (Tiamid Buarsh)
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To: chris37

Are the Democrats going to leak the names and addresses of the jurors now?

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Yes. Then their Antifa goon squad will administer a beat down of jurors for failing to indict Orange Man.


32 posted on 10/25/2019 2:54:21 PM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: chris37

“””Are the Democrats going to leak the names and addresses of the jurors now?”””

EXACTLY...This is so wrong that a judge would do this! Hope this is taken t the SCOTUS


33 posted on 10/25/2019 2:57:52 PM PDT by blueyon (`nt to be a nothing burger)
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To: Meatspace

I hope Barr is smart enough to realize if he doesn’t take out the coup plotters and the Dems get in, his ass will be the one in jail.


34 posted on 10/25/2019 3:03:06 PM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: yesthatjallen

I’m sure Obama Judge Beryl Howell will in a new sense of openness order the transparency of the Schiff secret Star Chamber proceedings.


35 posted on 10/25/2019 3:16:07 PM PDT by A strike (Import third world become third world)
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To: bigbob

Agree. This was pure posturing by an extremely biased judge and his order will be disregarded.


36 posted on 10/25/2019 3:35:10 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: yesthatjallen

Since Trump refuses to bury the democrats in prosecutions for their crimes, the democrats are using fake prosecutions to bury Trump.


37 posted on 10/25/2019 3:36:50 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: Starboard
They have nothing so they have to keep digging to keep their investigation alive.

They'll go through it and find one sentence and declare, 'THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!'

It won't stop until they're stopped.

38 posted on 10/25/2019 3:53:28 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: chris37

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.

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I don’t see where the names & contact info on Grand Jurors were among the items redacted??

my question is what happens if this is another wylie coyote trap for dems & will explode on them when the GJ info redactions are declassified???

what if the GJ was investigating swampers?


39 posted on 10/25/2019 4:00:09 PM PDT by thinden
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To: Yogafist; All
"When you can predict a judge’s decision based on who appointed him, we don’t have a judiciary."

That’s the bottom line imo.

40 posted on 10/25/2019 4:14:13 PM PDT by Amendment10
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