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By Tierney Sneed
November 8, 2018 3:35 pm
A lawyer for the ex-Roger Stone aide challenging special counsel Robert Muellers authority said he planned take the case, which was heard in a D.C. appeals court Thursday, to the Supreme Court if need be.
Even if we were to lose our arguments today, we are certainly going to go to the Supreme Court, the attorney Paul Kamenar, who is representing Andrew Miller, told reporters after the hearing. Miller was subpoenaed by Mueller, but fought the subpoena in court.
We believe that at that point, with this current bench, that they would find that Mueller is basically acting as a rogue type of prosecutor thats at-large U.S. Attorney, Kemenar said, who later pointed specifically to the addition of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the bench.
The appeals court hearing lasted well over an hour, and focused on the appointment of Mueller by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who at the time had oversight over the Russia probe due to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions recusal.
Arguing for Muellers team Thursday was Michael Dreeben.
An attorney for the Russian firm indicted by Mueller that has also challenged his authority argued as an amicus in the case.
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C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)At best, these Trump crooks can only hold off Justice for two years. But be assured, Justice will prevail
Fullduplexxx
(7,863 posts)Bfd
(1,406 posts)We shall see just how far any SC judge will go to put his career on the line when it comes to saving these sorry mobsters from the Law.
Michael Dreeben is a master at this:
From April 2018
Meet the prosecutor who could be Robert Muellers Supreme Court closer
Special counsel Robert Mueller built a team of more than a dozen prosecutors to investigate Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election, but experts say one member might best be considered the closer: Michael Dreeben.
I dont have many insights into his legal approach except to say there is no human being, on the planet, with more knowledge about federal criminal law than Michael Dreeben, and no one with more expertise than him, said Leah Litman, a constitutional law professor at University of California at Irvine.
Dreeben is one of the governments most venerated and tested Supreme Court specialists.
His career at the Office of the Solicitor General, the lawyers who represent the federal government before the high court, spans nearly three decades.
He has argued more than 100 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, making him only the second person to reach that rare milestone this century, declared Chief Justice John Roberts during the court hearing that marked the occasion.
MORE @ ABC NEWS Link
APRIL 2019
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/meet-prosecutor-experts-robert-muellers-supreme-court-closer/story?id=54641487
emulatorloo
(44,124 posts)On the other hand I believe Mueller already has a fair amount of info on Stone with or without this guys testimony.
SWBTATTReg
(22,124 posts)a lower court...what's is this, that the supreme court is on call and beck for every one of these guys? All toothless threats, etc.