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Posted on 07/27/2020 2:23:58 PM PDT by jazusamo
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton reacted today to a federal court decision , which Judicial Watch may appeal, upholding the secrecy of controversial subpoenas for phone records issued by Adam Schiff, Chairman of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence relating to the impeachment of President Trump.
“Adam Schiff secretly subpoenaed, without court authorization, the phone records of Rudy Giuliani and then published the phone records of innocent Americans, including President Trump’s lawyers, a member of Congress, and a journalist. And now a federal court ruled today that Schiff, or any member of Congress can’t be held accountable for this unprecedented and potentially criminal abuse of power. Every American should be concerned about a ruling that suggests Congress has unlimited power to take and publish their private phone records!”
The Judicial Watch lawsuit sought the controversial impeachment-related subpoenas for phone records, including those of Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s lawyer. Schiff and the Committee are being represented by the Office of General Counsel for the House of Representatives.
The phone records led to the publication of the private phone records of Giuliani, Congressman Devin Nunes, journalist John Solomon, Trump attorney Jay Sekulow, attorney Victoria Toensing, and other American citizens.
In their 14-page motion Schiff and the Committee claim “sovereign immunity;” “Speech or Debate Clause” privilege; immunity from FOIA and transparency law; that the records are secret; and that Judicial Watch and public do not need to see them. Today’s court decision suggested that Schiff and the House have “absolute” immunity from inquiries about the subpoenas.
Judicial Watch filed its lawsuit under the public’s common-law right of public access to examine government records after it received no response to a December 6, 2019, records request ( Judicial Watch v. v Adam Schiff and U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (No. 1:19-03790)):
The lawsuit argued, “The records are of critical public importance as the subpoenas were issued without any lawful basis and violated the rights of numerous private citizens.”
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Judge Beryl Howell, appointed 2010 by Brarak Obama
>> ...telecommunications provider including, but not limited to ATT...
CNN is ATT
they are trying to run out the clock...
but august better be a busy month for indictments.
It’d be sweet to see this ruling appealed and she and Schiffty get shot down
Bump!
Interesting the “Judge’s” name was not in the article.
When it becomes torch and pitchfork time.... Can we get this POS’s office number please?
L8r
The Deep State always protects itself.
This kind of stuff isn’t considered out of line and illegal unless a republican has the unmitigated gall to try it against a democrat.
So sick of this crap and Schiff should be swinging from a rope.
Beryl Alaine Howell (born December 3, 1956) is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She was a federal judge supervising the grand jury for special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.
"An Obama Resistance judge making a ruling in favor of her party's Resistance in CONgrift and against Orange Man Bad and his people is NOT partisan!!"
"TOTALLY not partisan!!"
This Resistance hoor Beryl Howell was supervising Droolin Bobby Mueller’s #FakeNews grand jury...
She’s a totally partisan Resistance POS.
Spit....crooked black robes
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appointed 2010 by Brarak Obama”
Of course. but the are no “Obama Judges”
Barack Obama appointed judges who think they can just ignore the rule of law and issue decisions based on the way they feel. This is a case in point. This will be appealed and will be shot down, and there will be no censure on Judge Beryl Howell for this decision.
Banana Republic.
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