Trump May Try to Block Release of Mueller Report

[Poiuyt]

Rudy Giuliani told the New Yorker that President Trump’s legal team may invoke executive privilege to prevent special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report from being released to the public.

Said Giuliani: “I’m sure we will.”

https://politicalwire.com/2018/09/03/trump-may-try-to-block-release-of-mueller-report/

If they try, aren't there ways around this?

[Tanuki]

1. I would think the precedent in U.S. vs. Nixon, 1974, would keep him from pulling a stunt like that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Nixon

...."The Court's opinion found that the courts could indeed intervene on the matter and that Special Counsel Jaworski had proven a "sufficient likelihood that each of the tapes contains conversations relevant to the offenses charged in the indictment". While the Court acknowledged that the principle of executive privilege did exist, the Court would also directly reject President Nixon's claim to an "absolute, unqualified Presidential privilege of immunity from judicial process under all circumstances."

The Court held that a claim of Presidential privilege as to materials subpoenaed for use in a criminal trial cannot override the needs of the judicial process, if that claim is based, not on the ground that military or diplomatic secrets are implicated, but merely on the ground of a generalized interest in confidentiality. Nixon was then ordered to deliver the subpoenaed materials to the District Court.

Nixon resigned sixteen days later, on August 9, 1974."
(More at link)

[dem4decades]

2. Remember before Mueller, every Friday night there was a double dose of leaked info?

The intelligence community will get it out. Somehow.

[spanone]

3. if he's so innocent.......?

[WePurrsevere]

5. Yes indeed... Innocent people don't act like Trump (& GOP Co). nt

[PJMcK]

4. It won't matter

Robert Mueller doesn't need to release his findings publicly. All he has to do is file indictments.

Suck it, Trump.

[TomSlick]

6. If the Democrats take the House,

they will subpoena the report and promptly release it.

In any event, nothing that hot can be kept secret.

[Botany]

7. Executive Privilege?

But didn't a lot of this stuff happen before he was President?

GOOD GOD IN BUTTER... when does this all stop?

[ChoppinBroccoli]

8. It's The Pentagon Papers All Over Again. The Precedent Is Set.

And in that case, they were arguing that there was sensitive National Security information contained in the papers that would put our troops in danger. All Trump can argue is that the Mueller report is embarrassing to him. And the Supreme Court still ruled in favor of publishing.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the report will "somehow" land on the desk of quite a few major media outlets at roughly the same time it arrives on Rod Rosenstein's desk.

[Still In Wisconsin]

9. I believe this is just one reason they're in such a hurry to confirm Kavanaugh.

Once he's in, they can probably block release by going to SCOTUS.