Mueller has a dead man switch. If they start firing people they'll press Send on pile of indictments

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55. So explain how this works.

The President fires Mueller (directly/indirectly). Once he's fired, he can't do anything with respect to the sealed indictments. He can't file something with the court asking that they be unsealed because he has no authority to do so.

So the folks under him give that order? Well, that's assuming that they have the authority to do so and don't need the approval of someone above them.

And even if the order is given, exactly what stops the government from moving to voluntarily dismiss some or even all of the indictments. While the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (which I doubt Louise Mensch has ever read) require the court to approve a government motion to dismiss an indictment, the case law solidly concludes that courts have very little discretion to deny such a motion, in significant part because it puts the judiciary in the position of usurping the traditional separation between prosecutorial discretion (an executive branch function) and neutral judicial decision-making AFTER a case is tried.

Put more simply, if Mueller has filed sealed indictments (and I don't know if he has, but have my doubts, at least as to how many/against what targets), it's not because they are some sort of protection against his getting fired.