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Ryan Goodman
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President Trump writes, by hand, on letter from bipartisan Congressional group advocating keeping US troops in Syria:

"I Agree 100% ALL is Being DONe"

But done for what purpose exactly?

Read @bridgewriter's excellent analysis of legal, policy problems:
justsecurity.org/62700/mission-…
Note how President Trump highlights the one paragraph that mentions #Iran, which raises the deepest legal (and policy) problems for keeping US forces in Syria.

@bridgewriter discusses those problems in article above. See also her analysis with Brian Egan
justsecurity.org/62511/wolf-she…
The full text of the letter from the congressional group—with President Trump's handwritten note in response to them—can be found in this SCOOP by @ckubeNBC:

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Ryan Goodman
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#Barr to @RepEdCase: "Until someone shows me a provision in 6(e) that permits its release, Congress doesn't get 6(e)" grand jury material.

@marty_lederman and @BarbMcQuade have got the answer

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Expert tip 2: Barr is apparently daring Congress with idea it needs to start impeachment proceedings to qualify for the other provision. Lederman's analysis shows that's false.
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Ryan Goodman
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Barr can't get away with this.

NYT: “the Justice Department outlined a longer schedule, saying that it will have its OWN SUMMARY ready to send to lawmakers within weeks”

Is Barr seriously trying to get away with submitting another “summary”—rather than Mueller report itself?
The author of that New York Times report is @peterbakernyt. In response to questions raised about reference to DOJ preparing a second “summary” of Mueller report, Baker tweeted that the Times is now looking further into this question:



(h/t @brianbeutler)
In his nomination hearing, Barr dodged several Qs. @SenFeinstein finally pinned him noting he had discretion to release full report.

Look at what also happened.

Feinstein: "Will you provide...Mueller's report to Congress, not your rewrite or a summary?"

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Ryan Goodman
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Breaking: Federal court holds First Amendment does not protect Trump Campaign in alleged conspiracy with Russia-Wikileaks.

Court holds that Supreme Court case (Bartnicki) does not apply for the reasons that Bob Bauer and I argued here:
justsecurity.org/61327/amendmen…

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Also, federal court's reasoning that First Amendment does not protect Trump Campaign in alleged conspiracy with Wikileaks also closely tracks the reasoning of legendary First Amendment expert Floyd Abrams.

Here's the Floyd Abrams piece:
justsecurity.org/60995/facts-de…
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