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Come back for my Ted Talk in 20 years about how the courts weren't politically expedient enough during the Trump presidency to solve any of the really big Constitutional separation of powers questions before them
Katelyn Polantz
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Katelyn Polantz
@kpolantz
Correspondent @CNN. 10+yrs covering legal DC. Prev: @americanlawyer @theNLJ @roanoketimes @newshour You can take the girl out of the Rust Belt but ... #H2P
- Man, this line in Robert Mueller's sentencing memo for Paul Manafort. "Given the breadth of Manafort’s criminal activity, the government has not located a comparable case with the unique array of crimes and aggravating factors." 🔥🔥🔥
- NEW NEW: The Justice Dept is investigating a potentially criminal scheme of bribery for a presidential pardon. LOTS redacted/unknown ... but court records are here, released this afternoon by the DC District Court: dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/file…
- This is BIG. Federal judge fast-tracking case over Congress' subpoena of Donald Trump's accounting records (read: tax returns and more). The court hearing is on Tuesday. cnn.com/2019/05/09/pol…
- Since all eyes are on Roger Stone (+Trump) tonight, let's take a stroll through all the OMG, WHAT JUST HAPPENED moments in this case. Thread:
- NEW: Judge Emmet Sullivan is so angered by the US Postal Service's inability to sweep its facilities for ballots yesterday afternoon, following a court order to do so, that he said he will want answers under oath from Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.
- New from @evanperez: The White House official who concluded in April that, following edits, John Bolton’s manuscript didn’t contain classified information is lawyering up.
- Biggest news here: Other prosecutors at the DC US Attorney's Office have discussed resigning in the coming days, following Roger Stone sentencing about-face: cnn.com/2020/02/12/pol…
- UPDATE: 4 defense attorneys at different large law firms have been approached to join Trump's legal defense team in recent weeks. All 4 turned him down.
- Whoa. Chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court after the state GOP criticized a lower-court judge for siding with Dems in a lawsuit to allow more dropboxes in the state>>
- NEW IN THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION: The chief judge of the DC District Court has extended the term of the grand jury used by Mueller for indictments. They were set to expire Jan. 6. Now could sit for up to 6 more months.
- Proud Boys isn’t just some random white nationalist group. Facebook head of security policy in July: "We first started looking into this network as part of our investigation into the Proud Boys...Our investigation linked this network to Roger Stone” cnn.com/2020/07/08/tec…
- Replying to @kpolantzI'll end with this, the words of the federal judge who handled more on the Mueller cases than any other court. "He was not prosecuted, as some have complained, for standing up for the President. He was prosecuted for covering up for the President" cnn.com/2020/02/20/pol…
- Reasons why big law firms have told me they won’t rep Trump: 1 Already repping subjects in investigation 2 He’s a “difficult” client 3 Could hurt relationships w corporate clients 4 Could hurt associate recruiting 5 Key partner is “busy” 6 He attacked judge/rule of law