House asks Supreme Court to postpone Mueller grand jury case - POLITICO
By: President Trump (POLITICO)
Is this the first of a broader sweeping "never mind" campaign? Anyone wager what else may go away that was so God Damned important for the last four years?
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House asks Supreme Court to postpone Mueller grand jury case
Democrats want to reconsider their approach with the Trump presidency ending.
The House is asking the Supreme Court to postpone consideration of Democrats' 18-month effort to obtain former special counsel Robert Mueller's secret evidence, citing the imminent inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
In a filing with the high court on Tuesday, House counsel Doug Letter urged the court to postpone a Dec. 2 hearing on the matter. Biden's ascension to the Oval Office, combined with a newly constituted Congress taking office next year will require the House Judiciary Committee to reconsider how to pursue its investigation, Letter said.
"The Committee's investigations into misconduct by President Trump, oversight of agency activities during the Trump Administration, and consideration of related legislative reforms have remained ongoing," he wrote. "But a new Congress will convene in the first week of January 2021, and President-elect Biden will be inaugurated on January 20, 2021. Once those events occur, the newly constituted Committee will have to determine whether it wishes to continue pursuing the application for the grand-jury materials that gave rise to this case."
The filing suggests the House is broadly reconsidering its posture toward Trump-era investigations in light of Biden's election victory. The House is also in court attempting to obtain Trump's financial records and tax returns and to force his former White House counsel Don McGahn — a star witness in Mueller's obstruction of justice investigation — to testify.
An aide to Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler told POLITICO recently that Nadler intends to pursue the McGahn deposition even after Trump leaves office as part of an effort to implement protections from political interference in the Justice Department.
But the Judiciary Committee's effort to obtain Mueller's grand jury information is one of the House's longest continuing legal actions of the Trump era.
The panel filed a petition in July 2019 to obtain Mueller's grand jury evidence, material that is typically closely held within the judiciary. But Nadler and his allies emphasized that Congress has often been granted exception to grand jury secrecy, particularly as it has considered bringing articles of impeachment against previous presidents, including Richard Nixon in the Watergate investigation and Bill Clinton during Ken Starr's independent counsel probe.
At the heart of the issue is whether Congress' impeachment power, which can result in a Senate trial, counts as a "judicial proceeding" akin to a courtroom process. The limited exceptions to grand jury secrecy include allowances for "judicial proceedings," and lawmakers have long treated House impeachment inquiries and Senate trials as satisfying that exception.
But Attorney General William Barr rejected the characterization and said he saw no legal precedent for forking over reams of Mueller's grand jury material to lawmakers, even in the context of impeachment.
The case has wound through the courts, with Democrats winning at both the district and appeals court levels before the Supreme Court agreed over the summer to take the case.
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Amazing. Now it isn't important anymore..................asswipes.
Remember when Mueller was the bomb? .. yet he did not deliver, made the party of (D) in the House liar'ishes .. remember when Schiff had proof... once again POOF!
When I read articles like this .. my mind goes to Russia Russia Russia and whether it would have even become a headline had H. won? Selective outrage at its finest...
They know it, as one famously said, right here on NT after about a year and a half of Mueller's investigating: "Right now, I don't think Trump did collude with Russia, long as they get rid of him I'm ok with it!
That is the silliness in all this .. as long as Trump is gone 'we' do not care what he has allegedly done ... he was never their president anyways .. all the tears have dried up ... ya da ya da etc etc thankfully Trump is not conceding til he exhausted his rights in recounts - just a wee bit more torture....
They are fairly open about it, as though rational people couldn't tell. Not even they themselves believed what they were telling us. The fact that Trump is not going quietly must hurt. Gore took 37 days to litigate.
You see Donald Trump essentially did 4 things they couldn't accept:
1) He closed the borders
2) He finally got tough with China, which had made millions for DC insiders, but took away lot's of American jobs and stole American technology.
3) He tried to bring back various industries to America, such as manufacturing. Obama said Trump would need a magic wand.
4) His tone! He stood up to them! Unlike the establishment Republicans who let themselves be smeared.
That's why he had to go. All the forces of government and corporate America were against him. All the middle class had was him.
Critically thinking is something that is missed on some...
I am not a Trump supporter, but I am a supporter of the American people .. Trump put Americans first - it was never isolationism .. it was putting American jobs first! As a welder .. American steel is soooo superior to Korean / Chinese steel .. 'we' should be using American products .. should be cleaning up our forest and using American lumber .. once 'we' begin cleaning out our forest and put selective cutting back in practice .. 'we' can help the planet by not letting our trees die by disease or bugs ... OOOO and put Americans back to work .. cannot emphasize that enough
I get it that people think bringing manufacturing back to the US is impossible .. because popular presidents like Obama said it could never happen ... until it was shown to be doable and it is happening ... then it is Build Back Better ... hmmmm! Now infrastructure is needed .. but not by no bid contracts!
There may be reasons other than what POLITICO is claiming. First and foremost would be how the Supreme Court might rule. They got rid of Trump and they have two favorable court rulings. Why risk it?
In other words, they were full of shit the entire time.
It was what DA Hamilton Burger used to refer to as a fishing expedition.
We have met the enemy of the American people, and it is them.
Ah the Mueller years... The left wing investing in every possible conspiracy their fevered brains could put together, including evidence of "crimes" in the redacted parts of the report.
So much for that.
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A yodel inside Democratic politicians heads would echo on forever.
5 years of their unmitigated bullshit; and now they want to make it go away because they know how full of shit it was. From their lemming backers dead silence.