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29 May 2021, 6:41 am by Matt Gluck
Bryce Klehm shared an edition of Lawfare Live, in which Robert Chesney, Lawfare founding editor and James A. [read post]
28 May 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Biden Justice Department Fights Release of Legal Memo on Prosecuting Trump Politico – Josh Gerstein | Published: 5/24/2021 The Department of Justice released more of a key memorandum concluding former President Trump did not commit obstruction of justice through his alleged attempts to thwart federal investigations, including special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into ties between his 2016 campaign and Russia. [read post]
25 May 2021, 3:18 pm by Josh Blackman
"] On March 22, 2019, Special Counsel Robert Mueller submitted his two-volume report to the Department of Justice. [read post]
24 May 2021, 8:42 pm by Allan Blutstein
Biden DOJ to appeal court order to release Trump obstruction memoBy Harper Niedig, The Hill, May 24, 2021The Department of Justice is appealing a judge's decision ordering the release of a 2019 legal memo prepared for then-Attorney General William Barr in the wake of the Mueller investigation.In a pair of court filings submitted late Monday, the DOJ under Attorney General Merrick Garland said it would fight against the full release of the memo, but would agree… [read post]
19 May 2021, 8:47 am by Jonathan Shaub
Over two years ago, the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election focused the spotlight on President Trump’s longtime White House counsel, Don McGahn, whose testimony to the special counsel’s office featured prominently in the report’s discussion of potential obstruction of justice by Trump. [read post]
17 May 2021, 10:27 am by Quinta Jurecic, Benjamin Wittes
  And, finally, two full years after the results of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation became public, the House Judiciary Committee has reached an agreement with the executive branch over the testimony of Trump’s former White House counsel concerning Mueller’s account of the former president’s conduct. [read post]
7 May 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Judge Blasts Barr, Justice Dept. for ‘Disingenuous’ Handling of Secret Trump Obstruction Memo MSN – Spencer Hsu (Washington Post) | Published: 5/5/2021 A judge accused the Justice Department and then-Attorney General William Barr of misleading the court and public to hide how he decided former President Trump should not be charged for obstructing Robert Mueller’ s Russia investigation. [read post]
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team publicly argued that Barr’s summary of the findings was misleading and “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of the Office’s work and conclusions. [read post]
In 2019, Special Counsel Robert Mueller released a report finding that the Russian government engaged in “sweeping and systematic” election interference to assist then-candidate Donald Trump in his 2016 presidential campaign. [read post]
26 Feb 2021, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The order makes it increasingly likely that a full two years will elapse without enforcement of the House’s April 2019 subpoena of McGahn to obtain his testimony about alleged efforts by former President Trump to obstruct special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. [read post]
23 Feb 2021, 10:50 am by Benjamin Wittes
The premise of this demand is that Barr, in his confirmation hearing, promised to let Special Counsel Robert Mueller complete his work. [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Van Grack was a lead prosecutor on Robert Mueller’s team investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. [read post]
9 Feb 2021, 6:57 am by J. Michael Goodson Law Library
Trump was previously impeached last year by the House but acquitted in the Senate for abuse of power and obstruction charges, in connection with the Robert Mueller investigation of Russian election interference. [read post]
8 Feb 2021, 9:21 am by David Hechler
” And before the latest GRU indictment, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted a dozen members of that organization in 2018 for attacks that sought to influence the 2016 presidential election. [read post]
30 Jan 2021, 6:01 am by Quinta Jurecic
He posted racist and anti-Semitic photos and memes and routinely retweeted the @TEN_GOP account, which purported to belong to the Tennessee Republican party but, Special Counsel Robert Mueller revealed two years later, was actually run from St. [read post]
28 Jan 2021, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
Several prominent Trump allies failed to do so, ensnaring them in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and other probes. [read post]
21 Jan 2021, 3:51 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
He seemed to revel in absolving corrupt politicians, corrupt law enforcement officers, and of course, anyone prosecuted by Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel Office. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 1:18 pm by Keith E. Whittington
It seems likely that if and when President Trump is put on trial in the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors, his lawyers will argue that the president was exercising his First Amendment right to free speech in the weeks after the election—and, as a consequence, his words cannot form the basis of an impeachable offense. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 1:56 pm by Benjamin Wittes
The issue is no longer merely whether the Justice Department should respect Attorney General Bill Barr’s decision to close the obstruction of justice questions involving Trump that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had intentionally sought to leave open. [read post]