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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I still get a belly laugh everytime is happens to poor ol wylie
Roberts says you can’t judge a judge by who appointed him.
Pull a Clinton and tell them they accidentally wiped out all the unredacted versions (yes with a cloth) and then accidentally destroyed them with hammers.
Not a big deal. Grand Jury 6(e) material is only protected because the court wants it so. Once the court decides to dispence with its own secrecy, the court practice gets sunlight. Works for me.
OTOH, The court is idiot for finding Congress has entered into an impeachment inquiry.
This is how federal courts operate. They are as lawless as the rest of the federal government.
House rules - those are easy to find. Show me the House rule on impeachment. Hint, in the thousands of words of House rules, there are ZERO on exercise of the impeachment power.
When the House decides to exercise impeachment power, it passes a rule. It has done so in 100% of impeachments. At this point, the House is not exercising its impeachment power.
Not a shcoker at all to read a court has overlooked plain law and substituted its own law.
This sort of thing is why I view the government as illegitimate, but for the fact it has armed goons.
Now that the mueller investigation’s predicate is being investigated as to the origin of the basis— and this investigation is now a criminal one=== the DOJ will be giving NONE of the Grand Jury proceedings and items to the House Impeachment a@@clowns... and especially Schiff.
DA Judge ha’ been Overruled. In any case the DOJ would not (at least not under Trump) commit a crime when ordered to by a member of the Judiciary. Might have under Obamaumao— which is kind of the point— that is the criminal nature of the investigation as well. Seditious acts and Treasonous as well- since we are still at War. Criminal abuse BY the FISA Court Judges is entirely within the purview of the Prosecutor and the Grand Juries empaneled.
Since many of the witnesses in the Mueller Grand Jury— will be called again by the Durham Prosecution of the criminal origins of the original “Russian collusion” supposed “counterintelligence” investigation, not one iota of testimony from Mueller Grand Juries are going to be revealed to the House clown committees. Atty Gen. Barr will not allow any of his prosecutors to reveal Grand Jury proceedings.
And thus— no they couldn’t even be “whistleblowers” but not for lack of late attempts by their newly contracted lawyers. It is not Fall, but Springtime for lawyers in DC.
The original “counterintelligence “ investigation, renewed by Rosenstein (who, no doubt is either flipped or under indictment)later in the form of the Mueller “prosecution” in name only— was in fact a laundering by criminal elements of the intel apparat at fbi and seeing eye hey- of fabricated “evidence” to support a false FISA warrant issuance by compliant FISA judges—under the direction and knowledge of Obi-Won-Kenyobi and minions. This Durham investigation includes the elimination of true evidence of Russian election interference in the form of the Ukrainian located multiple servers run for the DNC by Crowdstrike— who also did the “hacking” investigation of their own servers.
Maybe you’re right about Rosenstein. He hasn’t shot off his mouth recently. What does “elimination of true evidence of Russian interference” mean?
It won’t stop until they’re stopped.
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The GOP just doesn’t seem to understand that the Democrats are waging a full out, vicious political war against us. The only way to stop it is to stand up to it. Until that happens, the Democrats have no reason to retreat.
Crowdstrike— a Ukrainian/Russian outfit... actually ran the DNC servers which were physically in Ukraine, at the time the “hacking” so called by “russians” (which was the DNC whining mantra, when they refused the FBI access to their servers to investigate the “hacking”- as a role of law enforcement and true counterintelligence. If in fact that is what happened and the entire interaction wasn’t all part of the “play” of fake “russian” interference (orchestrated as they said by.. Trump).
The true evidence of russian interference in regard to any ‘hacking’ is that the russians were already fully assisting hitlery, and the DNC servers in Ukraine had all the emails. The massive data hack of emails could not have been done by a download (too massive), and the russians didn’t do it.
Seth Rich had thumbdrives of all this (and Crowdstrike knew this, from access records, and informed DNC of it- a simple matter to ID the “user” code and pin it to Seth Rich). It’s known that Rich gave thumbdrives to an English intermediary (who is now dead of old age) activist journalist— who gave them to Assange at Wikileaks, who then published.
Somebody ordered a murder of Seth Rich— the op has all the markings of FSB cutout type work— that was not even a robbery. People who do those specific actions have to believe they are dead meat if they don’t do exactly as told. Somebody had to OK the murder (Donna Brazile knows who it has to be). A live Seth Rich could expose the entire theft of the nomination of Sanders, as well as the Russian assist to hitlery— that had to be flipped onto Trump to continue the false narrative and try to steal/deny the election.
Complicated muddying of waters.
Here’s the irony: “FBI” attempts to investigate” what? It’s already assisting via 7th floor, MYE group. Just the admission of allowing a private co. to do its job showed its corruption.
Since the whole thing collapses with all this info now available no other conclusion is logical than it was the big lie in the usual vein of projecting on Trump what crimes they are committing.
Seth Rich story was the one time I believed the 4Chan folks got something right, although those intrepid autists probably tracked down a lot more.
You’ve cleared up another curious anomaly: how Brazil got away with her life and even became the new Juan Williams at Fox. Dead man’s switch?
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