Huh? TPM "Appeals Court Decision In Grand Jury Case Is Bad News For Mueller Report Seekers"

[NRaleighLiberal]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/appeals-court-decision-in-grand-jury-case-is-bad-news-for-mueller-report-seekers

By Tierney Sneed
April 5, 2019 12:16 pm
A panel of federal appellate judges in D.C. handed down a decision on Friday in an obscure case dealing with grand jury materials that could spell trouble for House Democrats and others seeking to see the full, unredacted report from special counsel Robert Muller.


By a 2-1 vote, the D.C. U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that judges do not have the authority to approve the release of confidential grand jury materials, outside of the five exemptions carved out in the federal law governing grand jury secrecy. The circuit court will likely have jurisdiction over any cases dealing with grand jury materials in Mueller’s report.

Friday’s opinion was written by Reagan appointee Judge Douglas Ginsburg and was joined by Judge Gregory Katsas, a Trump appointee who previously served in President Trump’s office of White House legal counsel.

Obama-appointee Judge Sri Srinivasan wrote a dissent that pointed to the appellate court’s 1974 decision in Haldeman v. Sirica. Then the court upheld the decision of U.S. District Court Chief Judge John Sirica, during the Watergate investigation, to allow Congress to see the so-called “road map” put together by the grand jury investigating President Nixon.


snip = read it all.

I simply can't believe the protective firewall that seems to be encircling our asshole president.

[wasupaloopa]

1. I can't see why they protect him while knowing

what criminal he is a crimnal.

I have always wondered how he gets away with what he does.

It’s like he sold his soul to the devil.

[chillfactor]

2. Mueller's report will get out

one way or another. I am old enough to remember when the Pentagon Papers were leaked.

[triron]

3. Katsas should have recused himself. This is fuckery.

[wryter2000]

4. It seems to me

There will still be a lot of material available without the grand jury part. Just the summaries the team wrote for public consumption could be damning.

[Dennis Donovan]

5. Ginsburg was stoned when he wrote the decision...