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22 May 2019, 6:01 am by Matthew Borges
McGahn is a key witness in the obstruction charges against Trump; he was allegedly pressured by Trump to fire Robert Mueller and later to lie about it. [read post]
21 May 2019, 1:53 pm by Margaret Taylor
Committee on Oversight and Reform, ruling that President Trump cannot block the committee’s subpoena to Trump’s accountant, Mazars. [read post]
21 May 2019, 12:19 pm by Coleman Saunders
Andrew Kent, Justin Florence and Ben Berwick defended Special Counsel Robert Muellers constitutional analysis in regards to obstruction of justice. [read post]
21 May 2019, 10:57 am by Molly E. Reynolds, Margaret Taylor
” It was important for the House to enhance the judiciary committee’s subpoena powers in 1974 and 1998 because of the state of the chamber’s rules at the time. [read post]
21 May 2019, 9:20 am by Erin McCarthy Holliday
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a memo Monday arguing that Congress may not constitutionally compel senior presidential advisors to testify about their official duties, referring to an April 22 subpoena of former Counsel to the President Donald McGahn to testify on matters regarding the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. [read post]
20 May 2019, 2:22 pm by Scott R. Anderson, Benjamin Wittes
” When the FBI finally provided the climate survey results from Comey’s tenure, they confirmed that Sanders’s statement was a fabrication—something Sanders later admitted to Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigators. [read post]
More recently, the issue came to the foreground when Attorney General William Barr cleared President Trump of obstruction of justice based on a factual record compiled by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, which others argued pointed strongly toward multiple instances of criminal obstruction. [read post]
18 May 2019, 5:16 am by Anushka Limaye
Mieke Eoyang, Ben Freeman, Ryan Pougiales, and Benjamin Wittes shared their latest data and analysis concerning the public’s confidence in Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigation. [read post]
17 May 2019, 11:41 am by Josh Blackman
Shortly after the special counsel’s report was released, I wrote three posts on Lawfare criticizing Robert Muellers constitutional analysis. [read post]
17 May 2019, 10:32 am by Stephanie Zable
A federal judge has ordered the public release of transcripts of two of former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s phone calls, which played an important role in Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigation, according to the Washington Post. [read post]
16 May 2019, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
Attorney John Durham is broadly examining the government’s collection of intelligence involving the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russians. [read post]
Specifically, we asked: How damaging do you believe Special Counsel Robert Muellers findings are for President Trump? [read post]
15 May 2019, 6:25 am by Sarah Grant
ICYMI: Yesterday on Lawfare Andrew Kent weighed in on the debate between Jack Goldsmith and Benjamin Wittes over the Mueller report’s statutory analysis on presidential obstruction of justice and explored additional Justice Department precedent that supports Muellers theory. [read post]
15 May 2019, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
It’s conventional to associate the Constitution with liberal pluralism, but it can also foster the opposite—what Jan-Werner Mueller calls the vicious core of populism, the anti-pluralist claim that some fraction of the population is the real people, and the rest don’t really count. [read post]
14 May 2019, 6:31 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
POGO – “Special Counsel Robert Muellers report on the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election has been public for nearly three weeks. [read post]
14 May 2019, 4:47 am by Andrew Kent
An important debate is happening at Lawfare and elsewhere about Special Counsel Robert Muellers application of the obstruction of justice statutes to conduct by President Trump. [read post]
13 May 2019, 10:56 am by Jacques Singer-Emery
ICYMI: Last Weekend on Lawfare Jack Goldsmith explained what he views as weaknesses in Special Counsel Robert Muellers interpretation of obstruction of justice statutes. [read post]
13 May 2019, 5:24 am by Staci Zaretsky
* According to President Donald Trump, former White House counsel Don McGahn “had a much better chance of being fired” than special counsel Robert Mueller because Trump claims he was “[n]ever a big fan” — but that’s probably because McGahn refused to issue a public statement saying he didn’t believe the president obstructed justice. [read post]