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12 Feb 2019, 8:30 am by Mikhaila Fogel
We decided it would be prudent to write to the special counsel’s office to verify the number of “angry Democrats” on the Mueller team. [read post]
Confidence in Special Counsel Mueller Remains Low As we have since October 2017, we once again asked the public about its level of confidence in Special Counsel Robert Muellers “fairness and objectivity” at the end of January. [read post]
5 Feb 2019, 12:35 pm by Jean Galbraith, Benjamin Schwartz
For example, President Obama’s signing statement for the NDAA for fiscal 2017 was more limited in its objections than was Trump’s signing statement for the NDAA the following year. [read post]
31 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
Lawmakers Push Crackdown on Foreign LobbyistsThe Hill – Alex Gangitano | Published: 1/29/2019 Foreign lobbying has been in the national spotlight since special counsel Robert Mueller obtained guilty pleas under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) from two of Donald Trump’s campaign officials, Paul Manafort and Richard Gates, over their lobbying work in Ukraine. [read post]
30 Jan 2019, 4:00 am by Margaret Taylor
The following is an overview of congressional requests for executive branch information and executive privilege assertions in response; it does not cover, for example, requests by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the law and dynamics of which are quite different. [read post]
24 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
Cuomo Signs Major Voting ReformsLegislative Gazette – James Gormley | Published: 1/24/2019 New York Gov. [read post]
19 Jan 2019, 8:28 am by Lev Sugarman
Stephen Bates also unpacked Barr’s refusal to promise a release of Special Counsel Robert Muellers report. [read post]
18 Jan 2019, 6:00 am by Stephen Bates
President Trump’s attorney general nominee William Barr says he has the “the utmost respect” for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but during his confirmation hearings he would not pledge to release any report produced by Muellers office. [read post]
17 Jan 2019, 9:30 pm by Bobby Chen
Mueller would be involved in a witch hunt,” Barr said. [read post]
Yet, despite considerable activity in December related to Muellers investigation--including Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen being sentenced to three years in prison and accusations that Paul Manafort lied to Muellers team during their investigation—public confidence in Mueller dropped. [read post]
16 Jan 2019, 2:15 pm
Mueller probe Throughout the hearing, Barr stressed that he has no plans to interfere or let the president stop Robert Muellers investigation into Russia’s involvement in the 2016 involvement. [read post]
14 Jan 2019, 11:06 am by Mikhaila Fogel
Barr’s confirmation hearings will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday. [read post]
14 Jan 2019, 5:36 am by Staci Zaretsky
" Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani says the president's legal team should be allowed to "correct" special counsel Robert Mueller's report before anyone else gets to read it, including members of Congress. [read post]
13 Jan 2019, 6:16 am by Jack Goldsmith
  The New York Times reported on Jan. 11 that the FBI “began investigating whether President Trump had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests” soon after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017. [read post]
12 Jan 2019, 4:05 pm by David Kris
The New York Times has reported that, in the wake of President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, the bureau opened a counterintelligence investigation into the president. [read post]
12 Jan 2019, 4:52 am by William Ford
Confident in the special counsel’s ability to evade any efforts to suppress his investigation’s findings, Wittes explained how Mueller can write a report that neither the White House nor the Justice Department can squelch. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 5:43 pm by Benjamin Wittes
It was also a counterintelligence investigation predicated on the notion that the president’s own actions might constitute a national security threat: In the days after President Trump fired James B. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 1:30 pm
” The memo questions the scope of Muellers investigation, and it argues that Mueller should not be permitted to demand answers from the president about possible obstruction of justice based on attempts by Trump to pressure former FBI Director James Comey to drop his investigation of Trump’s ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 6:09 am by Joe Patrice
Not sure they realize that their agitation only suggests Mueller's right. [read post]
5 Jan 2019, 5:22 am by William Ford
The recent discovery of the memorandum that William Barr, the president’s nominee for attorney general, sent the Justice Department in June criticizing Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigation into alleged obstruction of justice has generated considerable debate about the merits of Barr’s argument and its implications for his confirmation. [read post]