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9 Jul 2020, 6:58 am by Jack Goldsmith, Nathaniel Sobel
These are all matters on which President Trump has publicly commented. [read post]
22 May 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Freed by Court Ruling, Republicans Step Up Effort to Patrol Voting MSN – Michael Wines (New York Times) | Published: 5/17/2020 Six months before a presidential election in which turnout could matter more than persuasion, the Republican Party, the Trump campaign, and conservative activists are mounting an aggressive national effort to shape who gets to vote in November and whose ballots are counted. [read post]
12 May 2020, 4:00 am by Charlotte Butash
In response to the grand jury subpoena in the Vance case, Trump sued the district attorney and Mazars in federal district court. [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 1:28 pm by editor
In the law enforcement context, the common subpoena a corporate counsel will encounter is a grand jury subpoena. [read post]
28 Feb 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Many lobbyists from Republican firms who spoke to The Hill, however, said they expect the boom to continue no matter how 2020 shakes out. [read post]
3 Feb 2020, 12:42 pm by Elliot Setzer, William Ford
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Tuesday, February 4, 2020, at 10:00 a.m.: Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution will convene a panel of policy experts to discuss President Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address to Congress and the nation. [read post]
10 Jan 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
A second case involved the administration’s appeal of a judge’s October ruling that grand jury information in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe should be provided to lawmakers. [read post]
12 Dec 2019, 9:02 pm by Jim Sedor
The business was so poorly regulated that lobbyists routinely agreed to conduct the work in secret, directly violating the law. [read post]
25 Nov 2019, 6:49 am by Marty Lederman
Vance is the least significant of the cases because the information Mazars provides to the grand jury will almost certainly stay in the grand jury:  Just as under federal law, New York law mandates strict secrecy with respect to matters and information before a grand jury. [read post]
22 Nov 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Hastings has made no secret of his relationship with an employee in his congressional office. [read post]
11 Nov 2019, 10:44 am by Steve Lubet
There is no Sixth Amendment right either to witness confrontation or a public hearing at the grand jury stage, where the proceedings are secret according to statute. [read post]
8 Nov 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
His trial offers the possibility of fresh insights into the strange quest by some in Trump’s orbit for a kind of political kryptonite to use against Hillary Clinton – secret emails that would, they hoped, destroy her candidacy. [read post]
31 Oct 2019, 5:59 am by Jonathan Shaub
Even under the prevailing doctrine within the executive branch, there are a number of reasons that an assertion of privilege would be difficult in the context of an impeachment inquiry (which may be why the administration has so forcefully denied that the House’s current inquiries actually constitute impeachment proceedings). [read post]
25 Oct 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal ‘C’est Moi’: Mitt Romney admits to running secret Twitter account under the alias ‘Pierre Delecto’ MSN – Allyson Chiu (Washington Post) | Published: 10/21/2019 For years, Pierre Delecto’s presence on Twitter largely went unnoticed. [read post]
11 Oct 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Legal Team Says It Represents a Second Whistle-Blower Over Trump and Ukraine MSN – Annie Karni and Nicholas Fandos (New York Times) | Published: 10/4/2019 An intelligence official with “firsthand knowledge” has provided information related to President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine and is now protected from retaliation as a whistle-blower, lawyers representing the official said, confirming a second individual has come forward in the matter. [read post]
27 Sep 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
District Court Judge Anthony Trenga ruled the evidence against Bijan Kian was insufficient to sustain a conviction even though a jury convicted him at a trial earlier this year. [read post]
27 Jul 2019, 4:53 am
Ah, the subtle humor of the NYT.I'm reading "Raising Prospect of Impeaching Trump, House Seeks Mueller’s Grand Jury Secrets/In a court filing, House Democrats said they need access to secret grand jury evidence because they are weighing whether to recommend impeaching President Trump":The House Judiciary Committee on Friday asked a federal judge to unseal grand jury secrets related to Robert S. [read post]
23 May 2019, 10:59 am by Matthew Kahn
” Not only do “[t]hese threat actors constantly seek to access and steal our nation’s classified information, trade secrets, technology, and ideas—all of which are of great importance to U.S. national and economic security[—][t]hey   [also] seek to strike our critical infrastructure and to harm our economy. [read post]
12 May 2019, 1:01 pm by Benjamin Wittes
In other words, if Goldsmith is right, it is lawful for the president to, say, walk into a grand jury and lie knowingly and intentionally and repeatedly as long as there’s some plausible argument, even an attenuated one, that the lies are intended to protect, say, a secret diplomatic initiative. [read post]