https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/13/mueller-legitimate-court-ruling-774888
Judge Dabney Friedrich, who Trump appointed to the U.S. District Court of Washington D.C. last year, is the fourth judge to quash efforts to upend Mueller's legitimacy and cancel his investigation.
Soon to be Former Trump-appointed judge...
Leaked just now from the White House
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Dope story, but not 100% good for Mueller
Though Friedrich upheld Mueller's probe, she did offer a significant nod to his critics: that no laws "explicitly authorize" Mueller's appointment. Rather, she concluded that Watergate-era Supreme Court precedent --
as well as Howell's recent ruling -- found that the Justice Department had the authority. They concluded this "without analyzing specifically how any individual provision combination of provisions accomplished
this," Friedrich wrote.
Though Friedrich, the first Trump-appointed judge to consider the matter, ultimately supported Mueller's validity, she left a trail of legal breadcrumbs suggesting she had doubts about some of the special counsel
team's arguments. Friedrich found that existing laws "'do not explicitly authorize' the [Rosenstein] to appoint the Special Counsel, rejecting arguments by Mueller's team that several statutes backed up his a
ppointment.
well that's just shitting on things, how would any special council be appointed then? If they're argument is that only sessions the AG could appoint a special council then what happens when he recuses himself. by that logic there could never be any special council investigations into any crime or matter an AG is complicit in enough to force a recusal.
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