President Donald Trump’s critics have spent the past 17 months anticipating what some expect will be among the most thrilling events of their lives: special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report on Russian 2016 election interference. They may be in for a disappointment. That’s the word POLITICO got from defense lawyers working on the Russia probe […]
Mueller Report PSA: Prepare for Disappointment…
Rosenstein Talks to Press, But Avoids Talking to Congress…
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein doesn’t give many press interviews. But he did, on Wednesday, invite a Wall Street Journal reporter to the Justice Department for what the Journal called an “expansive” conversation. Rosenstein talked about the Robert Mueller Trump-Russia special counsel investigation, calling it “appropriate and independent.” He stressed that he serves at the […]
Virginia Judge: Paul Manafort Plea Deal in Washington ‘Highly Unusual’…
The federal judge who oversaw the federal trial against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in Virginia called the plea deal in the District to dismiss the deadlocked charges only after he has finished cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller “highly unusual.” In a Wednesday order made public Thursday morning, U.S. District Court Judge T.S. […]
Justice Kavanaugh’s First Vote Could Be in Trump Executive Power Fight…
Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s first vote as a member of the Supreme Court could come as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday on a Trump administration request testing how much power courts should wield over top executive branch officials. The administration has already made one unsuccessful run at the high court on the issue: It asked Justice […]
Petition to Depose of Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross…
DOJ Sues California Over Net Neutrality Law…
The Department of Justice on Sunday night sued California over its new net neutrality law, a little over an hour after Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed the bill. The lawsuit claims the California bill is “unlawful and anti-consumer” because it goes against the federal government’s “deregulatory approach to the Internet.” The bill signed by Brown […]
James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates Asked to Testify in Ongoing House Investigation into FBI, DOJ…
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., issued requests to interview former FBI Director James Comey, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates. Committee sources confirmed to Politico that the letters of request were sent Friday and Monday for the three high-profile […]
Rod Rosenstein’s Resistance by Andrew C. McCarthy…
Rod Rosenstein is even a weasel when repudiating his weasel moves. Here (with my italics) is the deputy attorney general’s non-denial denial of a New York Times report Friday that he brainstormed about ousting President Trump in May 2017: The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect…I will not further comment on a […]
Lisa Page Believed Rod Rosenstein Was Serious About Secretly Recording Trump…
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