Paul will have nothing once Mueller is done with him.

Why would it matter HOW he got caught?

Rhetorical question - I'll stay tuned ...

He skated though he was clearly guilty. Because it mattered how he was caught.

But Manafort's main premise that Mueller exceeded his mandate is not a valid legal theory. Mueller's mandate is to follow the facts wherever they go.

A crime is still a crime, even if it isn't what the prosecutor was looking for. If you investigate someone for larceny and in the process uncover a murder, is the murder then invalid?

Treason, not so much.

Oh my God, these damned repuke traitors are getting desperate aren't they?

serving caviar at a WH function, as in treason for serving caviar, a Russian delicacy.

But their guy goes into business with the KGB, nothing.

Starr was operating under the auspices of the Independent Counsel Act, which authorized the appointment of an "independent prosecutor" by a panel of the DC Circuit who, upon request could (and did) expand or alter the scope of the independent prosecutor's investigation. The Independent Counsel Act expired in 1999 and was replaced by the Special Counsel Act which operates within the DOJ and is not supervised by the Court of Appeals. I haven't looked at the Special Counsel Act closely enough to see how it defines the scope of a special counsel's investigatory power, but from what the article says, it appears that Mueller was granted broad authority and the claim is that Rosenstein didn't have the power under the law to give Mueller such broad authority.

Started with whitewater. (I think) Starr jailed Susan?forget last name for over a year for refusing to testify. He’s a real pos.

he investigated ever stupid, crazy wacky idea the right wing could come up with.
couldn't find a thing.
finally he talked paula jones' lawyers into suing clinton in civil court so they could try to get him on perjury.

yup

Could he stop Mueller from announcing any more info re: the Russia/money laundering investigation because they were doing their own investigation of the special counsel?

Someone with much more legal savvy would have to explain this to me.

At worst he could just refer it to an appropriate jurisdiction.

It's that there is a process by which the Special Counsel can go to the Attorney General (or in this case Rosenstein) and, after consultation, the Atty Gen'l can expand the scope of the Special Counsel's investigation beyond that specified in the original authorizing order. The claim is that the original authorizing order circumvented this process by giving Mueller authority to investigate matters beyond those specifically described in the authorizing order without having to go to the AG with a showing of need for such expanded authority.

District Attorney once they file charges against him? Maybe Bill Cosby can sue now as charges already filed against him.

but in this case, i'd bet everything worth discovering has already been ... discovered. so go for it mr. Manafort, good luck not saying something you regret while under oath.

I hope you end up dead broke and in jail. It could not happen to a meaner son of a bitch.

And this suit against the government wouldn't be a SLAPP suit in any event.

And as far as whether anti-SLAPP laws apply in federal court there is a circuit split on the issue. The Ninth and First Circuits have both accorded federal-court defendants the full procedural advantages of anti-SLAPP laws. See, e.g., Batzel v. Smith, 133 F.3d 1018, 1024-26 (9th Cir. 2003); Godin v. Schencks, 629 F.3d 79, 88 (1st Cir. 2010). The DC Circuit, on the other hand, has concluded that anti-SLAPP motions don’t belong in federal courts because they directly conflict with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. See Abbas v. Foreign Policy Grp., LLC, 783 F.3d 1328, 1333-37 (DC Cir. 2015).

Alas, I just realized this case is in the DC Circuit, so you are right in this instance.

But there's always Rule 11!

Grasping at straws me thinks.

by contacting a Russian to write an article together while he is under indictment and now he pulls this shit?!

Russian people are feeding him ways to fight his charges. This is why Mueller needs to act fastest possible way here

It seems like the person he should sue is Schneiderman.

If manafort somehow manages to skate, which the NYT piece quoting several federal prosecutors said the suit is baseless, Schneiderman will immediately pick up and go with RICO charges against him. He's a fool. He thinks the advise he's getting from the Russians will help him?? Really?? They will dump him so fast!!

...............“If the ultimate objective is to continue to try to undermine the credibility of Mueller and his prosecutors, it could have some value,” said Jimmy Gurulé, a Notre Dame law professor who was a senior Justice Department official in the administration of the first President George Bush. “But in terms of a legal strategy, it’s highly unlikely to prevail.”

Worse for the White House, the lawsuit also invites Mr. Mueller to give a “devastating response” that spells out all the ways Mr. Manafort is relevant to Mr. Trump and the Russia investigation, said Peter Zeidenberg, a former prosecutor who worked on a special counsel investigation during the George W. Bush administration. “If I’m the government, I’m licking my chops to file this response. He’s going to tie a bow on this,” he said of Mr. Mueller.

Even if Mr. Manafort succeeds at every turn, his problems are not over. He could still face charges if new prosecutors decided to bring them. But any court ruling that narrowed Mr. Mueller’s authority would give him less leeway to use unrelated charges as leverage against people close to the president.

Mr. Mueller won the cooperation of Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, for instance, after investigating him for unregistered foreign lobbying and lying to the F.B.I. on matters unrelated to the election.

The lawsuit provides fodder for Republicans who are trying to discredit Mr. Mueller’s investigation. As evidence that Mr. Mueller is biased, critics have pointed to Democratic donations by members of his team and anti-Trump text messages sent by an F.B.I. agent whom Mr. Mueller removed from the investigation.....................