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The Mueller Investigation Is Having An Unexpected Moment In Democrats’ Impeachment Inquiry Months After It Ended
What is dead may never die.
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Also just in: The DC Circuit scheduled arguments for Nov. 12 in House Dems' effort to get the Mueller grand jury materials.
Previously on the unexpected moment the Mueller investigation is having now in the impeachment inquiry: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil… pic.twitter.com/LOdYrIJi8B
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The Trump Administration Will Allow Health Workers To Refuse To Perform Abortions And Sex Reassignment
The rule will protect discrimination based on “conscience” or “religious beliefs,” but opponents argue it will greatly limit access to care.
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NEW: A NY federal judge has blocked the Trump admin's "conscience" rule, which would let health workers refuse to do certain procedures — like abortion or sex reassignment surgery — that violate their conscience or religion: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6541…
Prev: buzzfeednews.com/article/emaoco… pic.twitter.com/IvUGJglV4b
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“They Allowed It”: A Justice Department Employee Said She Was Raped By A Senior Official. New Documents Show A Pattern Of Harassment At The Department.
Documents and interviews reveal new details about a pattern of sexual harassment by a senior Justice Department official, and what the department did — and did not do — in the year since he resigned.
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“They Allowed It”: A Justice Department Employee Said She Was Raped By A Senior Official. New Documents Show A Pattern Of Harassment At The Department.
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“They Allowed It”: A Justice Department Employee Said She Was Raped By A Senior Official. New Documents Show A Pattern Of Harassment At The Department.
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Trump Can't Invoke "Presidential Immunity" To Block A Grand Jury Subpoena For His Tax Returns, A Court Ruled
"Even assuming ... that a formal criminal charge against the President carries a stigma too great for the Constitution to tolerate, we cannot conclude that mere investigation is so debilitating," the 2nd Circuit found.
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The 2nd Circuit notes that the last six presidents voluntarily released their tax returns. That wasn't a deciding factor, the court said, but it went to the idea that disclosure of these types of docs is unlikely to impair a president from doing his duties buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil… pic.twitter.com/oWLgi52UgJ
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The 2nd Circuit noted Trump conceded any presidential immunity from prosecution would go away once he leaves office — there was no "obvious reason" why a state prosecutor couldn't start an investigation while a president was in office and prosecute later buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil… pic.twitter.com/xwci8M4ge4
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NEW: Trump attorney Jay Sekulow says they intend to petition the US Supreme Court to take up the fight over a NY grand jury subpoena for Trump's tax returns.
"The issue raised in this case goes to the heart of our Republic."
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Trump's Campaign Was Talking About The Conspiracy Theory That Ukraine Was Involved In The DNC Hack Back In 2016
Fast forward to today: Trump brought up the conspiracy theory in his July 2019 call with the Ukrainian president, when he asked for a “favor.”
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NEW from the Mueller memos: Remember how Trump referenced a conspiracy theory that Ukraine was involved in the DNC hack in his July call with the Ukrainian president? Trump's campaign was talking about that way back in 2016
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Here's The First Batch of Memos From Robert Mueller's Russia Inquiry
BuzzFeed News sued the US government for the right to see all the work that Mueller’s team kept secret. Today we are publishing the first installment.
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BREAKING: Here's The First Batch of Memos From Robert Mueller's Russia Inquiry buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
Stay tuned, we'll be updating with details as we read through the documents.
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The White House Said Congress Can't Force Trump's Senior Advisers To Testify. A Judge Is About To Test That.
Democrats will almost certainly want to hear from White House officials named in the newly released whistleblower complaint. A judge next month will consider the administration's claim that Trump's senior advisers are "absolutely" immune.
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Hello from the DC federal courthouse, where a judge will hear args at 2pm in the fight over whether Dems can force former White House counsel Don McGahn to comply with a subpoena to testify.
Previously on what this has to do with the impeachment inquiry
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USA TODAY
Federal judge issues an injunction against NSA snooping but suspends it to allow an appeal.
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One of his most famous decisions came in 2013, when he issued a preliminary injunction blocking the NSA telephone metadata collection program in the aftermath of the Snowden disclosures
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Roger Stone Is Still Banned From Posting On Twitter, Facebook, And Instagram After Losing His Appeal
Stone's trial is set to begin next month.
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STORY: Roger Stone is still banned from posting anything on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter after the DC Circuit dismissed his appeal of a judge's gag order.
His trial is set to begin Nov. 5.
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10 20 19 Unredacted Doc Grand Jury
Source document contributed to DocumentCloud by Zoe Tillman (BuzzFeed).
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NEW: Per government filing unsealed on judge's order, former White House counsel Don McGahn and Donald Trump Jr. did not testify before the Mueller grand jury documentcloud.org/documents/6502… pic.twitter.com/4fFw0ZC8UI
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Just in: DC federal judge found DOJ wrongly redacted the names of witnesses who did *not* testify before the Mueller grand jury in a doc filed in court. So that info must be made public — judge notes two people "figured in key events" in Mueller's report ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_p… pic.twitter.com/SOWC0I1blC
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Trump’s Acting Chief Of Staff Acknowledged That The White House Withheld Ukrainian Aid So The Country Would Help Investigate Democrats
Mick Mulvaney just said the quiet part loud.
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Mick Mulvaney said today that the White House contacted DOJ "almost immediately" after Trump's July 25 call with the Ukrainian president to have them look at the transcript. DOJ spox says they were first "made aware of the transcript in mid-August."
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Democrats Haven’t Pulled Attorney General Barr Into The Impeachment Inquiry So Far, But His Name Keeps Coming Up
Barr tapped a US attorney to investigate the origins of the Russia investigation. That probe is ongoing, and Barr has asked foreign leaders to cooperate.
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Trump urged the Ukrainian president in July to talk to two people: Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General Bill Barr. Dems' impeachment inquiry has focused heavily on the former, and not on the latter.
Let's unpack that
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Text Messages Reveal US And Ukraine Officials Discussing The Whole Point Of The Impeachment Inquiry Into Trump
"As I said on the phone, I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign."
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Sondland disputes he was trying to move convos about Ukraine off of text (see: buzzfeednews.com/article/elliev…) to prevent a written record: "The complexity of international relations cannot be adequately expressed in cryptic text messages. I simply prefer to talk rather than to text." pic.twitter.com/vrFl9Z864n
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Trump Can't Be Sued By DC And Maryland Over His Hotel, A Federal Appeals Court Ruled
The 4th Circuit questioned whether the lawsuit filed by DC and Maryland against Trump was "an appropriate use of the courts."
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NEW: The 4th Circuit has agreed to rehear the emoluments clause case against Trump en banc (meaning the full court will consider it) — arguments are set for Dec. 12.
Previously on the July ruling from a three-judge 4th Circuit panel that sided with Trump: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil… pic.twitter.com/cfVylTJaCc
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Supreme Court Shortlist
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In other SCOTUS news: @WeDemandJustice put out a list of lawyers + judges they see as SCOTUS contenders under a Dem president: demandjustice.org/supreme-court-…
This is part of a larger effort by groups on the left to get 2020 candidates talking about courts, see: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil… pic.twitter.com/ZUdOH7ryUM
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A Court Ruled, Again, That Trump's Accounting Firm Must Turn Over Financial Documents To House Democrats
The DC Circuit rejected President Donald Trump's argument that the House Oversight Committee didn't have authority to issue a subpoena to his accounting firm.
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BREAKING: The DC Circuit ruled Trump's accounting firm must comply with Democrats' subpoena for records about the president and his businesses.
"...the Committee possesses authority under both the House Rules and the Constitution to issue the subpoena..."
buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil… pic.twitter.com/ttnbfQJRNs
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Judge Neomi Rao dissented, writing that if Congress was investigating illegal conduct by an impeachable official (in this case, the president), there had to be a formal impeachment process — it couldn't be done through Congress' legislative power buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil… pic.twitter.com/F1FlnLmFJ3
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To recap the day in Trump-related legal news as of 2:45pm (still early!):
- DC Circuit: Trump's accountant must turn over docs to House Dems (see: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…)
- TX: Trump's border wall funding plan is unlawful
- NY: Trump admin's public charge rule blocked
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Two Men Who Worked With Rudy Giuliani To Dig Up Dirt On Biden Have Been Arrested
Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman are in custody, a spokesperson for the US attorney's office in Manhattan has confirmed.
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@kenvogel NEW: Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who were just arrested on campaign finance violations, have been subpoenaed by House Democrats after they refused to comply with a request for voluntary cooperation: intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
Story: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil… pic.twitter.com/nE8zPZMkPW
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A Tuesday morning update on Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman: They remain in custody in Virginia, per spox for the Alexandria sheriff's office. That means they've yet to meet the release conditions set by a federal magistrate judge last week
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Two Key Players In The Ukraine Controversy Spent Lavishly As They Dug For Dirt on Biden
Bank records reveal a whirlwind of spending at high-end restaurants, an infamous strip club, and five-star hotels by the two little-known operatives who waged a back-channel campaign with Rudy Giuliani.
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While we wait for more info about Parnas and Fruman's arrest, make sure to read @MikeSallah7 and @LoopEmma's big story on them from yesterday: buzzfeednews.com/article/mikesa…
And this deep dive from July about what Parnas and Fruman were doing with Rudy Giuliani: buzzfeednews.com/article/mikesa…
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Rudy’s Private “Soldiers Of Fortune”: Inside Giuliani’s Ukrainian Campaign To Keep Trump In The White House
Reporting directly to Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, two operators waged a brazen back-channel campaign that could thrust another foreign country to the center of the next US election.
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While we wait for more info about Parnas and Fruman's arrest, make sure to read @MikeSallah7 and @LoopEmma's big story on them from yesterday: buzzfeednews.com/article/mikesa…
And this deep dive from July about what Parnas and Fruman were doing with Rudy Giuliani: buzzfeednews.com/article/mikesa…
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