HORRID court decision TODAY will affect release of Mueller report

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12. Calm down

All the decision says is that the District Court is limited to the exceptions to grand jury secrecy contained in Fed. R. Crim P. 6e and cannot, under the court's inherent power, make other exceptions.

In this case, an author/researcher was trying to get grand jury materials from a 1957 indictment of an FBI agent. The district court asserted it has inherent authority to disclose historically significant grand jury matters but denied the petitioner's request as overbroad. The D.C. Circuit affirmed the district court's order denying the petition holding that it has no authority outside Rule 6(e) to disclose grand jury matter.