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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/appeals-court-decision-in-grand-jury-case-is-bad-news-for-mueller-report-seekersBy Tierney Sneed
April 5, 2019 12:16 pm
A panel of federal appellate judges in D.C. handed down a decision on Friday in an obscure case dealing with grand jury materials that could spell trouble for House Democrats and others seeking to see the full, unredacted report from special counsel Robert Muller.
By a 2-1 vote, the D.C. U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that judges do not have the authority to approve the release of confidential grand jury materials, outside of the five exemptions carved out in the federal law governing grand jury secrecy. The circuit court will likely have jurisdiction over any cases dealing with grand jury materials in Muellers report.
Fridays opinion was written by Reagan appointee Judge Douglas Ginsburg and was joined by Judge Gregory Katsas, a Trump appointee who previously served in President Trumps office of White House legal counsel.
Obama-appointee Judge Sri Srinivasan wrote a dissent that pointed to the appellate courts 1974 decision in Haldeman v. Sirica. Then the court upheld the decision of U.S. District Court Chief Judge John Sirica, during the Watergate investigation, to allow Congress to see the so-called road map put together by the grand jury investigating President Nixon.
snip = read it all.
I simply can't believe the protective firewall that seems to be encircling our asshole president.
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Huh? TPM "Appeals Court Decision In Grand Jury Case Is Bad News For Mueller Report Seekers" (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Apr 2019
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wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)1. I can't see why they protect him while knowing
what criminal he is a crimnal.
I have always wondered how he gets away with what he does.
Its like he sold his soul to the devil.
chillfactor
(7,576 posts)2. Mueller's report will get out
one way or another. I am old enough to remember when the Pentagon Papers were leaked.
triron
(22,007 posts)3. Katsas should have recused himself. This is fuckery.
wryter2000
(46,051 posts)4. It seems to me
There will still be a lot of material available without the grand jury part. Just the summaries the team wrote for public consumption could be damning.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)5. Ginsburg was stoned when he wrote the decision...