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JUST IN: DOJ releases Office of Legal Counsel opinion by AAG Steven Engel, dated today, concluding POTUS can appoint acting director of CFPB under the Vacancies Reform Act. justice.gov/sites/default/…
Here is @marty_lederman's cogent response (via thread) to the OLC opinion:
Engel and Lederman both basically agree that this comes down to a question of whether the Dodd-Frank language that the deputy director "shall" serve as acting director makes (or can make) that the sole basis for filling a vacancy — eliminating the VRA (which Trump is using).
Both of them point to the Senate Committee Report, so I uploaded it, highlighting the key portion here: documentcloud.org/documents/4310…
Anyway, there's certainly more to come on this, but I was reading up tonight once I got home — so I figured I might as well share what I have!
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Politico reports that the White House and senior Senate Judiciary Committee Republican aides are preparing for the possibility of a Supreme Court vacancy due to Justice Ginsburg's illness, including putting together a shortlist of possible nominees. politico.com/story/2019/01/…
Of course, you need a vacancy to have a vacancy. And, from all that we know and have been told, Justice Ginsburg's surgery was successful at removing the nodules, there is no other evidence of disease, and she is working from home and is planning to return to work. But ...
... Politico's reporting is not telling us about Ginsburg's status. It's telling us about what the White House and Sen. Graham's committee are already doing should there be a vacancy. And that — and the fact that it's happening — is news.
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In the grand jury subpoena matter, over the past 24 hours, the Post has reported — washingtonpost.com/politics/court… — that the corporation is "a foreign financial institution" and CNN has reported — cnn.com/2019/01/09/pol… — that lawyers from Alston & Bird have been involved in the case.
Here was my report on what has happened in the run-up to those reports: buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
Incidentally, but I thought it should be noted: One of the lawyers named in the CNN report, Brian Boone, once represented AG nominee (and former AG) William Barr on an amicus brief at SCOTUS in a Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act case. americanbar.org/content/dam/ab…
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BREAKING: Supreme Court denies the foreign country-owned company's request to stay a contempt order resulting from its refusal to comply with a grand jury's subpoena. Chief Justice Roberts' "administrative stay" is vacated, so the result is the contempt order is back in effect.
That order of the court follows this request, made Monday but put on the docket today, to file a cert petition in the case under seal. Not clear what will happen with that now, but the contempt order (and associated fines) will now be back in place.
REDACTED DOCUMENT: Here's the redacted motion at SCOTUS, noted previously, of what appears to be the foreign-owned company seeking to file its petition for certiorari in the grand jury dispute under seal. documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
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QDrops For December 2018

These will be the QDrops for the month of December 2018.

Big month ahead on all fronts. Looking forward to D5 myself. I

hope all of you have a safe and joyous holiday season.

Merry Christmas 🎄

#QAnon

#WeThePeople

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Grassley to Feinstein - Sessions and Whitaker

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Dear Ranking Member Feinstein:
This letter responds to your two letters, both dated November 13, 2018, regarding former Attorney General Sessions and Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker.

First, every Attorney General works only at the will of the President.
Former Attorney General Sessions submitted his resignation last week at President Trump’s request. President Trump is entitled to nominate an Attorney General of his choosing. While the Senate is never a rubber stamp for any president,
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Before everyone gets too excited: Starr said the Constitution allows indicting POTUS, but that Mueller can't do so given DOJ precedent. 1/
As noted in this excellent @charlie_savage piece, it was reported at the time that Starr had concluded that Clinton could be indicted, and Starr even prepared a draft indictment. 2/ nytimes.com/2017/07/22/us/…
As I discussed in this piece, Starr had more running room than Mueller -- under the now-defunct independent counsel statute, Starr essentially had no boss and could ignore DOJ precedents where "inconsistent with the purposes" of that statute. 3/
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today the AG overruled a precedential case that allowed survivors of domestic violence to obtain asylum. this decisions is deeply troubling and a dangerous harbinger for what's to come. here's what happened. 1/ justice.gov/eoir/page/file…
protecting survivors of DV under asylum law has been litigated for nearly 20 years in the US. @CGRShastings & @KarenMusalo, among many others, have done groundbreaking work to advance the law allowing survivors of DV to receive asylum when their gov'ts can't protect them. 2/
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So, for a few minutes, we're going to splash our way through this crazy list of people that Ron Johnson is looking into.
You all know James Comey, former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
He got fired by the guy who used to host The Apprentice for being bad at his job.

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DOJ and FBI
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