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SPOILER: Het Kabinet-Trump

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SPOILER: Hoe werkt een impeachment?

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 20-05-2020 om 21:45:10 .@MSNBC is not carrying the White House briefing for now. reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 20-05-2020 om 22:10:08 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court puts hold on release of secret Mueller grand jury testimony to House of Representatives. reageer retweet

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atrupar twitterde op woensdag 20-05-2020 om 21:59:16 Kayleigh McEnany explains that Trump tagging Mnuchin in his tattletale tweet about mail-in ballots in Michigan is a reflection of his "unprecedented transparency." (His tax returns could not be reached for comment.) https://t.co/WoO90n0vme reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 20 mei 2020 22:19 schreef Sjemmert het volgende:

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atrupar twitterde op woensdag 20-05-2020 om 22:10:31 Asked to respond to a direct quote of Eric Trump pushing a bonkers conspiracy theory about the coronavirus on Fox News, McEnany rebukes the reporter for taking him "out of context" https://t.co/bDuXdHfxPN reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 20 mei 2020 22:13 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 20-05-2020 om 22:10:08 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court puts hold on release of secret Mueller grand jury testimony to House of Representatives. reageer retweet

Tja ...

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scotusreporter twitterde op woensdag 20-05-2020 om 22:07:24 BREAKING: Scotus denies House Democrats immediate access to secret grand jury material from Mueller investigation. Wants briefs on whether to take case for full review by June 1. reageer retweet

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scotusreporter twitterde op woensdag 20-05-2020 om 22:28:32 Here's a quick story on the court's order, from which there were no noted dissents https://t.co/weSp648Woc reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 20 mei 2020 22:58 schreef SnertMetChoco het volgende:

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Ik kan er niet zo bij.

Ik heb wel een hekel aan dit getweet, want in dit type gevallen gaat er zoveel nuance verloren. Kennelijk is geen van de 9 rechters er tegen om het vooralsnog niet toe te staan, maar als je de reacties onder kyle griffin leest is het een en al "corruptie blabla".

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday stopped House Democrats for now from seeing secret grand jury material from former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into the Trump administration and Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election.

The court, without noted dissent, agreed with a request from the Department of Justice to put on hold a lower court decision granting the House Judiciary Committee some previously undisclosed material from Mueller’s investigation.

Solicitor General Noel Francisco told the Supreme Court it should withhold the sensitive information until it could review for itself significant separation of powers issues raised in the case. Despite the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Congress has no immediate need for the information, Francisco wrote in a brief to the court.

“The House already has impeached the president, the Senate already has acquitted him, and neither [the committee] nor the House has provided any indication that a second impeachment is imminent,” Francisco wrote.

House General Counsel Douglas N. Letter had told the court that the withheld material “remains central to the committee’s ongoing investigation into the president’s conduct,” adding that the committee’s probe “did not cease with the conclusion of the impeachment trial.”

The House went to court in July before the formal start of its impeachment proceedings involving President Trump’s alleged effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate former vice president Joe Biden, now the presumptive Democratic nominee to challenge Trump in November. A divided D.C. Circuit found that the House was legally engaged in a judicial process that exempts Congress from secrecy rules that typically shield grand jury materials from disclosure.

Mueller’s report found insufficient evidence to conclude that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia, and Mueller neither exonerated nor accused Trump of obstructing justice. The Justice Department released a redacted version of Mueller’s report and said it would provide congressional leaders with the full report minus the grand jury materials. It said Attorney General William P. Barr lacked discretion to release that information.

In its 2-to-1 opinion, the D.C. Circuit said grand jury records are court records — not Justice Department records — and have historically been released to Congress in the course of impeachment investigations involving three federal judges and two presidents.

The House Judiciary Committee’s “need for the grand jury materials remains unchanged. The committee has repeatedly stated that if the grand jury materials reveal new evidence of impeachable offenses, the committee may recommend new articles of impeachment,” wrote Judge Judith Rogers, who was joined by Judge Thomas B. Griffith.

“Courts must take care not to second-guess the manner in which the House plans to proceed with its impeachment investigation or interfere with the House’s sole power of impeachment,” wrote Rogers.

Judge Neomi Rao dissented, saying the committee lacks legal grounds to ask the court to enforce a subpoena for the grand jury materials. Rao would have returned the case to district court to determine whether the committee can still show its “inquiry is preliminary to an impeachment proceeding and that it has a ‘particularized need’ for disclosure.”

Francisco had told the Supreme Court that its intervention was needed because release of the grand jury material to Congress would almost surely mean either a leak or simply its release.

Letter disputed that, saying Congress in the past has protected grand jury information.

Francisco replied the committee is not bound by any such rules, and “may publicly disclose the grand-jury materials if it wishes by a simple majority vote of the committee.”

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sgurman twitterde op woensdag 20-05-2020 om 23:47:53 New: After some confusion, ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen will be released from federal prison due to coronavirus concerns and is expected to serve the rest of his 3-year sentence from home. https://t.co/LgfosNrOnF reageer retweet