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13 Apr 2022, 5:00 am by jonathanturley
While FARA was rarely used for criminal investigations and prosecutions, special counsel Robert Mueller seemed to charge by the gross under the act. [read post]
9 Apr 2022, 3:44 pm by Jack Bogdanski
Which is more than you can say for Robert Mueller, Merrick Garland, Letitia James, and Cy Vance combined, not to mention the new bobblehead running the district attorney's office in New York City. [read post]
28 Mar 2022, 8:31 am by Quinta Jurecic, Andrew Kent
A few examples: Trump repurposed money to build the Mexican border wall even after Congress had denied funding for that project; he publicly dangled presidential pardons or commutations and later delivered them—to Roger Stone, Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn—in an attempt to deter their cooperation with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation; he hounded the Senate-confirmed attorney general out of office and replaced him with a manifestly unqualified subordinate on… [read post]
24 Mar 2022, 6:02 am by jonathanturley
Yet, in the Gorsuch confirmation, Whitehouse demanded that the nominee address his “judicial philosophy” and compare it to the “judicial philosophy” of the prior nominee, Merrick Garland. [read post]
17 Mar 2022, 9:03 pm by Laura Welborn
Camacho, professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, and Robert L. [read post]
25 Feb 2022, 4:57 pm by Mark Walsh
Bush unveiled John Roberts (initially for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s seat) from what official archives term “the state floor,” which appears to have been at one end of the Cross Hall. [read post]
18 Feb 2022, 9:03 pm by Soojin Jeong
“The right to vote is the right from which all other rights ultimately flow,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said as states prepared to redraw districts based on the delayed release of 2020 Census data. [read post]
14 Feb 2022, 2:01 am by Quinta Jurecic, Benjamin Wittes
That small request was, in its own way, momentous: It was an early link in the chain of events that led to Comey’s firing and the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. [read post]
10 Feb 2022, 9:01 pm by Dennis Aftergut
Robert Costello, Bannon’s lawyer, had laid the groundwork for an “advice of counsel” defense in a November 11 interview that he gave to the FBI. [read post]
2 Feb 2022, 9:01 pm by Dennis Aftergut
”In this fight, however, unlike the one with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Trump doesn’t have the DOJ in his corner or William Barr as his corner man. [read post]
1 Feb 2022, 7:30 am by Amy Howe
ShareEven before taking office, President Joe Biden pledged to reshape the federal judiciary. [read post]
26 Jan 2022, 9:46 am by Amy Howe
ShareJustice Stephen Breyer, a devoted pragmatist and the senior member of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing, will retire from the court at the end of the 2021-22 term, NBC News reported on Wednesday. [read post]
19 Jan 2022, 8:51 am by Roger Parloff
In contrast, roughly 45 percent of the total 700-plus Capitol riot defendants accused in federal court so far—325 individuals, according to Attorney General Merrick Garland’s speech on Jan. 5—face at least one felony charge.) [read post]
7 Jan 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Richard Durbin called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to fire Carvajal after an investigation by the Associated Press found the Bureau of Prisons was a “hotbed of abuse, graft, and corruption [that] has turned a blind eye to employees accused of misconduct. [read post]
Yesterday, on the eve of the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection, Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered a speech reviewing the Justice Department’s efforts to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the attack on the Capitol. [read post]
3 Jan 2022, 7:23 am by John Bellinger
An organized attack on Congress would seem to fit the popular definition of an insurrection, but the charge is very rarely brought and Attorney General Merrick Garland (himself a former federal judge) has reportedly opposed bringing novel charges that might not hold up in court. [read post]
31 Dec 2021, 5:00 am by Josh Blackman
  Testified before Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing for Merrick Garland for Attorney General, (Feb. 23, 2021). [read post]
30 Dec 2021, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
It would violate the simple proposition that no person is above the law.Based on what we now know, there appears to be ample reason for Attorney General Merrick Garland to launch a criminal probe of Trump. [read post]