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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Nov 8, 2018, 07:02 PM Nov 2018

Ex-Roger Stone Aide's Lawyers Vow To Bring Mueller Challenge To SCOTUS

By Tierney Sneed
November 8, 2018 3:35 pm

A lawyer for the ex-Roger Stone aide challenging special counsel Robert Mueller’s 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 that’s 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 Session’s recusal.

Arguing for Mueller’s 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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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/roger-stone-aides-lawyers-vow-to-bring-mueller-challenge-to-scotus-if-need-be

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Ex-Roger Stone Aide's Lawyers Vow To Bring Mueller Challenge To SCOTUS (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2018 OP
So many crooks, so little time. C_U_L8R Nov 2018 #1
Everyone hopping for a kravenaugh payout Fullduplexxx Nov 2018 #2
They'll ALL be heading to the SC with their paperwork. Why they shoved Kavanaugh thru asap. Bfd Nov 2018 #3
Yeah this "clever" legal maneuver worked so well for Paul Manafort lol emulatorloo Nov 2018 #4
The supreme court reviews only those cases that require new precedent or to affirm a ruling of ... SWBTATTReg Nov 2018 #5

C_U_L8R

(45,002 posts)
1. So many crooks, so little time.
Thu Nov 8, 2018, 07:10 PM
Nov 2018

At best, these Trump crooks can only hold off Justice for two years. But be assured, Justice will prevail

 

Bfd

(1,406 posts)
3. They'll ALL be heading to the SC with their paperwork. Why they shoved Kavanaugh thru asap.
Thu Nov 8, 2018, 07:19 PM
Nov 2018

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 Mueller’s 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 don’t 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 government’s 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)
4. Yeah this "clever" legal maneuver worked so well for Paul Manafort lol
Thu Nov 8, 2018, 07:20 PM
Nov 2018

On the other hand I believe Mueller already has a fair amount of info on Stone with or without this guy’s testimony.

SWBTATTReg

(22,124 posts)
5. The supreme court reviews only those cases that require new precedent or to affirm a ruling of ...
Thu Nov 8, 2018, 07:28 PM
Nov 2018

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.

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