🔥🔥Judge Beryl Howell, who stopped Trump from pulling Perkins Coie’s security clearance is, one of “them”!
She actually worked alongside Loretta Lynch, Leslie Caldwell, and Andrew Weismann while in the Eastern District of New York!
Reading up, I’ve realized that Howell has been involved in just about anything bad that happened to Trump or his admin. She oversaw the Mueller grand jury, Giuliani, Mar-a-Lago grand jury, and so much more!
She even threw a wrench into the Durham investigation.
Judge Beryl Howell also rubber stamped anything Jack Smith wanted. She even ordered release of Trumps Twitter messages!
Beryl grew up on a military base in Georgia. She worked in a spook laden investigation org in 2003. She was hired by Obama for Cyber in 2008. Then nominated to the bench in 2010 by Obama.
2018 - A Former Leahy Aide (Judge Beryl Howell) Steers the Mueller Probe
“Born on a U.S. Army base in Georgia, Judge Beryl Howell grew up in a military family that frequently relocated, according to longtime friend Beth Wilkinson, a D.C. trial lawyer.”
“Beryl landed a career-defining job at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.
EDNY was stocked at the time with legal standouts, including future attorney general Loretta Lynch, future Department of Justice criminal chief Leslie Caldwell and a future prosecutor in Mueller's Office of the Special Counsel, Andrew Weissmann.”
Two months after his appointment last May as special counsel, Robert Mueller impaneled a grand jury in Washington, D.C., to investigate alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election and potential obstruction of justice by the president. As chief judge of D.C.'s federal district court, it fell to Howell to referee the process. (Other aspects of the Trump probe, including a grand jury Mueller has used in Virginia and a New York-based investigation of the president's lawyer, Michael Cohen, fall outside of her jurisdiction.)”
“There are some clues about Howell's influence over the matter (Mueller Investigation). In a 37-page opinion issued last October and unsealed weeks later, Howell ruled that a lawyer for former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, could be forced to appear before the grand jury.”
"When a person uses the attorney-client relationship to further a criminal scheme, the law is well established that a claim of attorney-client or work-product privilege must yield to the grand jury's investigatory needs," Howell wrote.
"It is hard to think of anything that she hasn't been involved in," Leahy said in a 2003 committee meeting as Howell was preparing to leave the Senate.”
“Howell actually is. According to D.C. municipal records, she is registered to vote as a Democrat.
While Howell has mostly been spared allegations of partisanship, the conservative advocacy group Americans for Limited Government did call for her recusal last summer because of her relationships with Weissmann and Lynch. "The president of the United States deserves better than a kangaroo court," ALG president Rick Manning said at the time.”
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Remember the extension that Mueller got that prolonged the fake story of Russian collusion? Yup, Judge Beryl Howell,
Federal judge extends Mueller grand jury by up to another six months
That original 18-month authorization for the grand jury designated “17-1,” which began sitting in July 2017, was set to expire Sunday.
“I can confirm that grand jury 17-1 has been extended, can continue to sit,” said Lisa Klem, administrative assistant to Judge Beryl Howell, chief judge of U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
Under federal rules, a grand jury can serve no longer than 18 months unless the chief judge extends its service by a period of six months or less “upon determination that such extension is in the public interest.”
cnbc.com/2019/01/04/fed…
Judge Beryl Howell and Mar-A-Lago. And she also ruled against Trumps constitutionally protected attorney client privilege.
(This is like a multiple update page so scroll down a bit.)
Two people you should know: Judge Beryl Howell and Judge Amy Berman Jackson
“Between 2016 and 2023, Judge Beryl Howell served as the chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, working on everything from Robert Mueller’s probe to the grand jury investigating confidential documents found at Mar-a-Lago.
Most recently, Howell ruled that Trump attorney Evan Corcoran must testify before that same grand jury, and hand over his notes as well.”
msnbc.com/inside-with-je…
Judge Beryl Howell had the order for Trumps Twitter messages, and more, hidden from all.
“Twitter was fighting a ruling from the federal district court in Washington that held the company in contempt for failing to comply with an earlier order to turn over materials responsive to a search warrant and imposed a $350,000 sanction.
In addition to the court-authorized search warrant issued by Smith's team in January for information regarding Trump's account — such as tweets created or drafted, contact information, and devices used to access it — U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell issued an order requiring Twitter not to disclose the warrant to anyone, including Trump.
cbsnews.com/news/twitter-t…
Here’s the Trump Twitter DM etc documents if interested. There’s lots with Beryl Howells name on them.
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The judge who rejected Durhams attempts to get important Soros aide emails? Beryl Howell… Read 👇🏻
“Durham used Russian intelligence memos — suspected by other U.S. officials of containing disinformation — to gain access to emails of an aide to George Soros (Benardo), the financier and philanthropist who is a favorite target of the American right and Russian state media.
Durham used grand-jury powers to keep pursuing the emails even after a judge (Beryl Howell) twice rejected his request for access to them. The emails yielded no evidence that Durham has cited in any case he pursued.”
“In 2017, The Washington Post reported that the Russian memos included a claim that Benardo and a Democratic member of Congress, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, had discussed how Loretta Lynch, the Obama-era attorney general, had supposedly promised to keep the investigation into Clinton’s emails from going too far.
But Benardo and Wasserman Schultz said they had never even met, let alone communicated about Clinton’s emails.
Durham set out to prove that the memos described real conversations, according to people familiar with the matter. He sent a prosecutor on his team, Andrew DeFilippis, to ask Judge Beryl Howell, the chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington, for an order allowing them to seize information about Benardo’s emails.
But Howell decided that the Russian memo was too weak a basis to intrude on Benardo’s privacy, they said. Durham then personally appeared before her and urged her to reconsider, but she again ruled against him.”
seattletimes.com/nation-world/n…
This is enough, you get the idea. All those heartbreaking rulings were from Judge Beryn Howell, who not only was appointed to a court by Obama, she actually worked for Obama.
“A merciless ruling issued Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell found that Giuliani failed to preserve evidence in the case brought by Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, and that he deliberately refused to comply with discovery requests and orders. She ordered a default judgment against the man once known as “America’s Mayor,” as well as sanctions — the amount of which will be determined at trial.”
lawandcrime.com/high-profile/b…
And PS, I’m done with this thread only, I’m not done.
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