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29 Aug 2022, 5:01 am by Bob Bauer
In the wake of the Mar-a-Lago search, thoughtful commentators, notably Ross Douthat and Damon Linker, have sounded alarms about a potential criminal prosecution of Donald Trump. [read post]
27 Aug 2022, 5:45 am by Benjamin Pollard
Han shared the Justice Department’s unredacted 2019 memo that argued against prosecuting Trump for obstruction of justice in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 2016 election interference investigation. [read post]
26 Aug 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The memo says no potential instances of obstruction of justice by Trump that were cited by special counsel Robert Mueller III’s “would warrant a prosecution for obstruction of justice,” regardless of whether the person being investigated was a sitting president. [read post]
25 Aug 2022, 1:57 pm by Benjamin Pollard
The Department of Justice released a memo from 2019 which argued that President Donald Trump should not be prosecuted for obstruction of justice for his conduct during Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. [read post]
25 Aug 2022, 4:27 am by Emma Snell
Barr, concluded that none of Trump’s actions chronicled in the report by the special counsel, Robert Mueller could be shown beyond a reasonable doubt to be criminal acts. [read post]
24 Aug 2022, 5:45 pm by Allan Blutstein
Justice Department releases Mueller-era memo on Trump prosecutionTwo top aides to then-Attorney General William Barr said Trump’s acts wouldn’t have merited obstruction charges even if he were not immune as president.By Josh Gerstein & Kyle Cheney, Politico, Aug. 24, 2022The Justice Department has released a long-sought legal memo arguing that then-President Donald Trump’s actions during special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia… [read post]
24 Aug 2022, 3:23 pm by Hyemin Han
A March 2019 memo that then-Attorney General Bill Barr used to justify the lack of prosecution against former President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into potential 2016 election interference has been made public. [read post]
22 Aug 2022, 4:46 am by Emma Snell
  OTHER DOMESTIC DEVELOPMENTS A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Justice Department (DOJ) must make public an internal memo senior lawyers prepared in 2019 on then President Trump’s actions investigated in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe and whether these amounted to crimes prosecutors would ordinarily charge. [read post]
8 Aug 2022, 2:01 am by Jen Patja Howell
To discuss, Quinta Jurecic sat down with Thomas Rid—professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and author of a book on Eastern bloc influence operations called “Active Measures”—and Brandon Van Grack, a partner and co-chair of the National Security and Crisis Management practices at the law firm Morrison and Foerster and a former official at the Justice Department, where—among other things—he served… [read post]
5 Aug 2022, 6:01 am by Quinta Jurecic, Molly E. Reynolds
In contrast, in 2018, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s consecutive testimony before the House Judiciary Committee and House Intelligence Committee took a combined six hours. [read post]
5 Aug 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Gaetz was apparently unaware they were being recorded by documentary filmmakers following Stone, whom special counsel Robert Mueller had charged with obstruction of a congressional investigation. [read post]
26 Jul 2022, 2:53 pm by Kevin LaCroix
  *******************   As an introduction to the topic we wish to refer to a famous quote from Robert Swan Mueller III, an American lawyer and government official who served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2001 to 2013:   “I am convinced that there are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be. [read post]
20 Jul 2022, 12:02 pm by Quinta Jurecic, Natalie K. Orpett
” Following the most recent congressional hearing on Jan. 6, Andrew Weissmann, formerly a prosecutor working under Special Counsel Robert Mueller, warned that the Justice Department seems to be taking “the wrong approach to investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection” by zeroing in with a “myopic” focus on the specifics of the riot itself, rather than the broader scope of efforts to overturn the election. [read post]
15 Jul 2022, 4:34 am by Emma Snell
Julia Mueller reports for The Hill. [read post]
14 Jul 2022, 4:24 pm by luiza
Parliament and assisted the Robert Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. [read post]
6 Jul 2022, 7:01 am by Quinta Jurecic
Donald Trump attacked this norm again and again during his presidency—asking the FBI to back off its investigation into his national security adviser, Michael Flynn; working to undermine the Mueller investigation; demanding that the Justice Department investigate Hillary Clinton; and on and on. [read post]
30 Jun 2022, 4:48 am by Emma Snell
Signup to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. [read post]
21 Jun 2022, 5:55 am by Liam Brennan
And Robert Mueller famously refused to opine on whether Trump had obstructed justice, saying that Congress would have to make that determination. [read post]