DOJ Says It'll Be 'Irreparably Harmed' if Congress Gets Its Hands on Mueller's Secret

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DOJ Says It’ll Be ‘Irreparably Harmed’ if Congress Gets Its Hands on Mueller’s Secret Grand Jury Materials

by Colin Kalmbacher at Law & Crime

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/doj-says-itll-be-irreparably-harmed-if-congress-gets-its-hands-on-muellers-secret-grand-jury-materials/

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday filed a motion to appeal a recent federal court rulingthat ordered the agency to provide impeachment investigators in the U.S. House of Representatives with grand jury materials underlying former special counsel Robert Mueller‘s report on election interference and obstruction of justice. DOJ attorneys also moved for a stay of that prior decision pending their motion before the D.C. Court of Appeals.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howellauthored a lengthy and stinging rebuke of the Trump administration’s efforts to keep the information out of the hands of congressional Democrats.

Monday’s nine-page motion for a stay pending appeal begins with a plea that the government be granted a limited reprieve from Judge Howell’s prior decision mandating the disclosure of the full report.

“A stay is warranted because, without a stay, the Department will be irreparably harmed,” the DOJ argues. “Once the information is disclosed, it cannot be recalled, and the confidentiality of the grand jury information will be lost for all time—particularly if Petitioner United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary decides to publicize the now-secret grand jury materials, which it has asserted the power to do through a simple majority vote.”

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[elleng]

1. Sounds good to me, irreparably harm barr/trump's DOJ;

they've devastated it for We the People.

[dewsgirl]

2. Boo frickin hoo.

[C_U_L8R]

3. That's saying a lot.

What the hell are they hiding?

[Phoenix61]

13. Beat me to it.

That was my first thought. It must be something really bad for Twitler.

[Backseat Driver]

34. Not to mention Epstein's trail of enablers. n/t

[Botany]

16. But they said the Mueller Report vindicated Trump.

You don't suppose that "they" might be hiding something?

[Me.]

4. Gobbledigook

Hand it over

[bluestarone]

5. I say EXACTLY

THAT proves why the House SHOULD get it!!!

[EveHammond13]

6. probably true!

[spanone]

7. All the more reason for congress to see them....we are not a one party rule

[StarfishSaver]

8. Here's the motion

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6531379/Stay.pdf

"The Department Has a Sufficient Likelihood of Success on the Merits to Warrant a Stay"

[applegrove]

9. Thanks.

[StarfishSaver]

10. ...

[applegrove]

11. .

[nwduke]

12. Sounds like Barr is acting like he's,,,now what's that word...?

GUILTY!

[Frustratedlady]

14. The Department of Justice was irreparably harmed the day A.G. Barr walked in the door!

This makes it even MORE important that Congress gets the Mueller report unredacted and complete.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

15. Fuck Bully Barr! WE pay his salary! WE are his boss!

So therefore, we have a right to have Congress get the unredacted accounts of Grand Jury testimonies.

[CentralMass]

17. Because it will expose the conspiracy to obstruct justice.

[Cartaphelius]

18. To this date

Barr and his D.O.J. have not represented the interest of the Citizens he is
appointed to protect. In point of fact, at every opportunity, he has done the
complete opposite when given the chance. From conducting an self-identified
investigation contrary to every intelligence agency, to burying a properly filed
whistleblower complaint and scuttling the Mueller Report, this D.O.J. has
performed, in lock step with the White House.

The Courts need to separate the Executive from the Judiciary Branch.

[House of Roberts]

19. Using the Bush v. Gore defense?

I thought that was never meant to be used again.

[Mr. Ected]

20. So to Barr, knowing MAGATS would be privy to the truth is enough to withhold evidence

Their fake news worlds most certainly cannot be allowed to intersect the real world that the rest of us live in.

The audacity is outweighed only by the impotency of the argument. You know you've lost when this is the crumb you toss in your defense.

[LiberalFighter]

21. Harmed only because the DOJ failed to do their job.

[ananda]

22. No, only Barr, Rosenstein, and other MF45 enablers.

The department itself will be fine.

[applegrove]

24. Like the planet will be fine if all of us humans are gone.

[nilram]

23. Well, maybe BARR will be

but... lol

[UniteFightBack]

25. Hey DOJ...yoo hoooooo it ain't gonna be up to you so fork it the fuck over. nt

[OAITW r.2.0]

26. When criminals controi our DOJ

you are goddam right you will go down with Agent Orange. You are doomed Barr....and you cannot win.

[dchill]

27. "Irreparably Harmed" is what Barr and Trump...

...have already been doing.

[Jarqui]

28. He has a point ...

Barr's DoJ will be irreparably harmed because the grand jury and Mueller's evidence will help expose how corrupt Barr's DoJ really is.

Impeachment proceedings are under way. There is no excuse that this material should not be in the hands of the House - particularly after the President's personal attorney, AG Barr, was so deceitful misrepresenting the report. The people and their elected representatives deserve to know what has been going on so that the country can be protected from a repeat in 2020.

[napi21]

30. TOO f-ing bad that Barr doesn't like to be overruled. Nobody does. As to the irreprablle harm goes

...TO WHO? DT? I don't care! TI Barr? I don't care! It will do nothing to the GJ system. The GJJ info wa0 sent to the impeachment committee is the Nixon case, without harm!

Quit your whining and just damn do it!!!

[Thomas Hurt]

31. Going to find out Barr is fn liar and was covering up, that kind of harm?

[efhmc]

32. That is probably true. The truth is going to do loads of damage to this DOJ.

[applegrove]

36. Not the DOJ. Just the political appointees.

[NoMoreRepugs]

33. The "harm" comes from the FACTS in the Mueller Report

contradicting EVERY statement and proclamation made by littlebillybarr and demonstrating that the DOJ under Barr is nothing more than a political tool of the Orange Douche.

[notinkansas]

35. Deja vu

So republicans are trotting out the 'irreparable harm' thing again?

I suppose they figure that if it worked for dubya, then why not?

[BSdetect]

37. k&r

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

38. Meaning Billy Barr may end up behind bars

[Volaris]

39. Well, it's going to do irreparable harm to William Barr hahaha..

Unless the Court is going to agree that William Barr IS the DoJ, that's a pretty ridiculous fucking argument.