DOJ asks Supreme Court to block Democrats' access to Mueller documents

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday asked the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court decision granting House Democrats access to redacted grand jury materials from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.

The Monday filing serves as the Trump administration’s formal appeal of a March order to hand over secret transcripts and exhibits that Democratic leaders of the House Judiciary Committee initially sought as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

The justices previously granted the administration’s request to halt the disclosure order, issued by a divided three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, from taking effect to allow time for an appeal.

In its filing, DOJ lawyers urged the justices to take up the case and to prevent an unwarranted breach of grand jury secrecy.

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Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/500542-doj-asks-supreme-court-to-block-democrats-access-to-mueller-documents

[scarletwoman]

1. Gawd, the shit just keeps piling up higher.

[Leghorn21]

2. But dahlink, you could be EXONERATED all over again!!!

lowlife motherfuckin scumbucket foreign asset LOSER

don’tcha want some more of that delicious exoneration, bunkerboi??

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Must be some wicked bad stuff on those pages.

[cstanleytech]

9. Well why else try to prevent Congress from seeing it?

[maxsolomon]

4. "stall stall stall stall?"

"not a problem"
-5 GOP justices.

[KSNY]

5. ...because it would prove that he is a traitor (along with Flynn, Kushner and the rest)?

[Newest Reality]

6. Okay...

What I want to know is, all things considered, who in gadzooks name ordered this perfect storm?

Come on, fess up. You know who you are. Get the return ticket and send it back NOW.

[iluvtennis]

7. SMDH. this shit has got to stop. hurry up Nov 2020. nt

[mountain grammy]

8. And the fascist five will comply.

[Progressive Jones]

10. Fat Willie B is pushing his luck. November is coming. Fat Willie will be without Trump's protection.

[DENVERPOPS]

11. Same thing

as blocking the Public's access to Mueller documents...........

[LTG]

12. In other times DOJ has already done this

Federal law profits turning over grand jury testimony and materials to anyone, including Congress, except for a few exceptions. The Supreme Court has rules that for the most part, federal district court judges have no power to order it to be done.

The exception most often used is that of a current criminal prosecution. Impeachment has been ruled an equivalent activity.

The legal question is whether an “ongoing impeachment” investigation includes one that is looking for unspecified crimes ( what would be a fishing expedition). Whether the House has exhausted all other means to get the same information. Failing to have even issued subpoenas for most of the relevant witnesses or carrying through with efforts to enforce those they did issue, was the equivalent of ending the preparation for charges and trial.

Given the legal prohibition and some murkiness around whether what is presented as an impeachment is sufficient under the current circumstances and prior precedent, most careful Attorneys General might do the same thing.

[tclambert]

13. Because they don't want Congress to know how super exonerated the report would make Trump look.

Super, super exonerated. But they don't want to embarrass Democrats by rubbing their noses in how super exonerated Trump is. Because you know how much Trump hates bragging about himself.

[Brainfodder]

14. Spot on, never before has a man been so perfectly humble and beautifully crafted in orange no less.

His spawn is not quite as perfectly humble and gracious, and condolence giving and apologetic as one should, and so truthful, just always even when it hurts!

Dear Leader is the bestest at all things, including standing up and sitting down!

[Maxheader]

15. Redacted..Redacted..

Mitch the bitch mcconnell offers..

"Sure, wanna see the actual, bonafide, 100% word for word grand

jury transcripts?...Here"..

[sinkingfeeling]

16. They really should stop using "DOJ". That concept is dead. We

only have a Dept. of Covering Up Executive Misdeeds.

[The Wizard]

17. What could they be concealing?

We already know the Mediocre (formerly Supreme) Court is in the tank for Trump.

[lark]

18. Fucking right wing fascist Russian Repug SCOTUS justices are killing the constitution on purpose.

Kavanaugh has to be impeached, but that part will be relatively easy because he's guilty as hell, if Dems retake the Senate and don't allow any filibusters. Until then, SCOTUS is our enemy, as much as drumpf and PUtin. Roberts will sometimes vote correctly on social issues, but on anything really important to the rich or right wing, he ALWAYS votes their way and will not protect our constitution one bit.