Watergate abuses continue to inform President Trump’s pursuers.
Geoff Shepard August 3, 2019
So, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee (HJC), fresh off his committee’s disastrous session with Robert Mueller, has announced his intent to obtain access to the secret grand jury testimony taken during the Mueller investigation. It matters not that Mueller concluded there was insufficient evidence to bring charges against President Trump; he and his entire two-year investigation are now being disowned by ardent Democrats dead set on impeaching the president. Nadler’s hope is to uncover some testimony, however remote, that he can claim as the basis for an impeachment initiative.
It is settled law, at least within the District of Columbia circuit, that grand jury testimony is to forever remain secret — and cannot be unsealed even by order of a federal judge. D.C. circuit judges made this abundantly clear in the recently decided McKeever case. Their rationale is clear: grand jury testimony is taken without the opportunity for cross-examination or any refutation whatsoever. It is taken in complete secrecy, untested and unchallenged by anyone outside the confines of the grand jury room and under the promise that it will never be made public (except under limited circumstances not relevant to our discussion)............To Read More......
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