Posted on 04/26/2022 2:33:20 PM PDT by T Ruth
United States District Judge Christopher “Casey” Cooper on April 26 granted five petitions seeking to intervene in former Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann’s upcoming trial for allegedly making a false statement to the FBI.
Special Counsel John Durham, in April 6 court filings, sought to compel the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Hilary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, Fusion GPS, the Perkins Coie law firm, and former Neustar senior vice president Rodney Joffe to provide documents and communications they’ve refused to hand over, claiming attorney-client privilege.
Durham maintains there were 1,455 documents and communications between the parties that were withheld from federal prosecutors as “privileged” attorney-client communications even though only 18 involved what could be described as legal advice.
His motion seeks to have the five parties and Sussmann produce 38 “privileged” communications and email exchanges for Cooper to review.
Attorneys representing the DNC, Clinton campaign, Perkins Coie, Joffe, and Fusion GPS—the “opposition research” firm hired by Clinton’s campaign—filed petitions last week seeking to intervene and to argue against their clients’ communications being used as evidence in Sussmann’s trial, scheduled to begin on May 16.
Cooper, an Obama appointee, granted those petitions April 26 and gave attorneys until April 29 to “re-file their proposed oppositions” to Durham’s motion in anticipation of making their arguments in a May 4 hearing.
Despite Cooper’s rulings, the evidentiary hearing scheduled for April 27 at 2 p.m. in his Washington, D.C., courtroom “will go forward as scheduled,” US Department of Justice Deputy Director of Public Affairs Wyn Hornbuckle confirmed in an email.
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They are going to try every roadblock they can
Hold them in contempt with a $10,000 per day fine until they comply. /s
This guy is in the tank.
Even an ex-president can’t shield his personal papers, and
yet this judge is opening the door to all manner of road
blocks to information directly pertaining to this case.
Hear! Hear!
The nation’s future is on the line here, and it is amazing
to me that this judge seems to think certain people are
above the law, and seems to infer these really aren’t all
that important of issues.
“This ruling is not necessarily an indication of how the judge will rule on the petitions. It may be that he wants to protect himself from successful appeal.”
That was my first thought, as well.
Durham should have realized that he can just figure out some bogus thing to charge the lawyers with, then raid their office and seize all their privileged communications even if they are not covered by the warrant.
That’s how it works now, right? Or is that only if the lawyer is Giuliani?
YES! Trump would love to see that!
Durham should have sent a SWAT team to raid all of them and taken everything
That’s how it works now, right?
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Apparently,
The “ Rudy Rule”
Found in The living breathing grooming leg humping pnuembra of the constitution.
Post 8
Bingo..... stage a raid at 3:00 am invite Twitter News.
Quite true. The defendant benefits from issues that complicate the case. If nothing else, that provides a way to appeal and delay serving a potential prison sentence after conviction while awaiting a pardon from Biden. In the meantime, Biden is well-served by having Hillary and her crew in the cross-hairs of the special counsel, vulnerable and dependent on his favor.
What I don’t understand is why just the single charge? The guy supposedly intentionally led the fbi/doj into a completely fraudulent investigation of an opposition candidate, namely Trump. But only charge him with lying about was was paying the bills. The argument over if they can bring evidence exposing the original fraud only makes sense if they are charging him with conspiracy. Why no conspiracy charge? I’ll tell you why, they are not investigating the conspiracy, it’s because they have no intention of exposing what happened out in the open. You’ll get no satisfaction from durham.
Odd thing is that you believe certain people aren't above the law.
Dixie Mod in motion.
Dixie Mob
No I don’t.
No one is above the law, whether they are treated that way
or not.
A judge certainly should be comporting himself that way,
seemingly expressing that belief.
And yet Bill& Hill are running free today.
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