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How can he lose? He’s right.
In a just world, Manafort would win.
They wanted to get him to roll on something... but there is nothing there.
Excellent move. I have no idea if it sticks but I like the move.
Yessssssss The SOB Mueller and his Gestapo shysters have zero authority. They’re conflicted beyond comprehension and not only need to be fired, but disbarred
See what I suggested in Post #89 on this thread:
Devin Nunes, targeting Mueller and the FBI, alarms Democrats and some Republicans with his tactics
This lawsuit by Manafort would fit perfectly in the "shadow DOJ" I proposed as a better idea than a special counsel to investigate the DOJ and FBI.
Actually -- that may have been the point all along.
alright by the way what crime was mueller supposed to be investigating...spell it out
Combine this with the article out today about the composition of the Grand Jury, being filled with BLM and Occupy Wall St types, and he just might pull it off. When that happens, the cabal could be exposed. Interesting to see if they’ll let that happen.
And he’s going to win...
The Mueller probe is illegal BECAUSE it is unconstitutional. I see nowhere in the Constitution the power to create a “special investigator”, especially
with no probable cause to investigate.
Sundance today suggested "there’s a lot of different down-stream legal issues" [one of which is] "The unlawful use of a Special Counsel (Mueller) investigation to hide the conspiracy; (James Baker, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Bruce Ohr, Andrew Weissman, Jeannie Rhee, Aaron Zebley)"
I hope he ties Mueller in judicial knots.
The problem is - Mueller and Fed.gov have unlimited money, time and staff. They can, and will, bankrupt literally anyone. Its a peculiar form of extra-legal punishment and tyranny we have here in the USA.
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That’s a pretty good argument I think. Except the only question is whether it should be Mueller or some other prosecutor.
It would have to be a pretty creative lawsuit. It will be fascinating to see the actual argument.
The Special Counsel mandate is not in law, but comes from internal DOJ rules as decided by Rod Rosenstein. If Manafort violated the law, he can be prosecuted by the DOJ as the DOJ wishes. The DOJ frequently has task forces that operate similarly to the SC. I doubt the courts are going to jeopardize either.
Manafort is extremely wealthy. A few years of legal expenses will not be an issue to him.
Far from folding, he if fighting back!
WINNING!
Cue LAMESTREAM; “Act of a desperate man.”
WOW. What a day!
Politics is one hell of a ride now....there is actual fighting back!
See Is the appointment of Special Counsel Mueller legal without Senate approval?
Manafort should have standing to raise this objection, since he has been indicted by a grand jury convened by the Special Counsel.
They could have appointed an already sitting US Attorney instead of Mueller as Special Counsel and avoided this legal problem. But they wanted Comey's mentor and best buddy to make sure it went down as desired.
The Manafort case may be particularly relevant to this issue in that one could argue that because a Special Counsel has a limited, defined scope he is not a full US Attorney requiring Senate confirmation; however, in this case the Special Counsel is investigating and obtaining indictments outside the defined scope of Russian collusion during the election.
Discovery will be a bitch for Mueller’s team.