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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Trump is doomed.
Read this and you'll see why.
"This obscure law gives the House the right to see everything they want in Mueller investigation"
This is huge.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/this-obscure-law-gives-the-house-the-right-to-see-everything-they-want-in-mueller-investigation/?utm_source=push_notifications
Fullduplexxx
(7,882 posts)Skittles
(153,321 posts)iluvtennis
(19,913 posts)According to the Daily Beast, Congress has the right to review all the evidence that went into the Mueller report and question any and all witnesses named.
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But this is what Nadler and Schiff and Cummings and etc have been doing since the release of the report. They've requested the underlying data of the Mueller report, they've request pertinent folks come testify before Congress. And what have they gotten - stonewalled from the illegal occupant of the white house and AG Barr.
So darn frustrating
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)his crimes are many
Bettie
(16,151 posts)frankly, I don't see Barr/Twittler turning over one single piece of requested information and there is no means of enforcement that Democratic leaders are willing to use.
Ultimately, I suspect that even if the SCOTUS rules that congress is entitled to the information, he'll defy the order and nothing will be done about it.
I'm feeling very down these days, since it seems the only thing the house is willing to move forward on is possibly a finger wag or a somewhat unflattering letter in his permanent record.
lame54
(35,360 posts)McConnell said that it's already over
If the dems impeach he will discard it and it will be over
Bettie
(16,151 posts)and do his bidding until the election hoping that his "friends from Russia" don't deliver it to him again.
He gets off without consequences.
lame54
(35,360 posts)The pressure needs to be put on the senate
Bettie
(16,151 posts)to act like humans.
Yeah, that will work.
They won't ever back away from their Dear Leader. He is their dream: an untouchable asshole who will do their bidding while creating chaos.
lame54
(35,360 posts)Nor will i continue
I'm getting a brick wall vibe
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)Thank you!!!
Bettie
(16,151 posts)impeachment hearings are the one thing that will win 2020 for Orange Hitler. They know the future far better than I do, or so they say.
Wednesdays
(17,505 posts)greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)This is why people laugh at us.
Vidal
(642 posts)and the only issue is timing.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)So many have predicted his demise again and again here.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)get the most out of the inevitable impeachment hearings. Timing is everything.
onenote
(42,885 posts)As is often the case, Raw Story gets more wrong than right.
There is no "law", obscure or otherwise, that gives the House the right to see everything they want in the Mueller investigation.
There are a couple of court decisions relating to the disclosure of grand jury testimony where impeachment is in play. It should be noted that these cases arguably could be distinguished on their facts by a judge who was so inclined. For example, in the Watergate decision, the court stated that "We think it of significance that the President of the United States, who is described by all parties as the focus of the report and who presumably would have the greatest interest in its disposition, has interposed no objection to the District Court's action [allowing the disclosure to Congress of a report prepared by the grand jury]." Also note that the grand jury in that instance prepared a report and asked the judge to transmit it to Congress -- something that hasn't happened with respect to the Mueller investigation.
There is an argument that under the US Code (not obscure and oft discussed here on DU and elsewhere) there are circumstances under which grand jury testimony can be disclosed "at a time, in a manner, and subject to any other conditions that it directsof a grand-jury matter: (i) preliminarily to or in connection with a judicial proceeding." The argument would be that impeachment is a judicial proceeding and even before it is commenced, this exception would apply under the "preliminarily to" provision.