So, as soon as Kavanaugh takes the bench, a lawsuit will be filed to stop the investigation...

[Honeycombe8]

if the investigation isn't over.

Because Kavanaugh has stated in court opinion that a President should not be burdened with criminal prosecutions, civil lawsuits, or investigations, because being President is hard enough as it is.

It might be the Trump team that files the lawsuit, or it might be another group on behalf of them.

Or maybe Congress will pass a law stating that the President can't be sued or prosecuted or investigated, and make it retroactive. Then the other side will have to sue to stop that law.

Any lawsuit like that will go to the Supreme Court. Thomas, Gorsuch, Alito and Kavanaugh will side w/Trump's argument. Roberts may or may not. Probably so. Sotomayor, Ginsburg, Kagan, & Breyer will vote against the Trump argument.

[Iliyah]

1. I'm pretty sure Mueller has other avenues.

[Honeycombe8]

2. That's it. That locks it up. Except for impeachment...

impeachment isn't a possibility with a Republican Congress. The Dems would have to win bigly, to impeach him.

And this could be wrapped up BEFORE the mid-terms. The S Ct sits in October. They can go straight to the S.Ct., possibly, with a lawsuit, because it involve the President.

[Iliyah]

3. Really would bring out more voters against shithole and the GOP.

GOPers are uncaring greedy assholes, and they think US Supreme Court is their savior, but they also know they would need congress as well.

[AlexSFCA]

4. trump is really securing himself during and after

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presidency. If Kennedy likes what trump is doing, then you can reliably count on alito, thomas, roberts and gorsuch to display absolute loyalty to trump during or post presidency and shield him from any inditements.

[Honeycombe8]

5. +1 nt

[bench scientist]

6. The constitution forbids ex post facto laws. No retroactive laws.

Ex post facto laws are expressly forbidden by the United States Constitution in Article 1, Section 9, Clause 3 ( as applied to the federal government ) and Article 1, Section 10 (as applied to state governments).
On what legal grounds do you believe anyone could bring suit? And prevail?

[Honeycombe8]

7. Someone would have to sue over it...and take it to the S.Ct. Guess how that would go?

It applies to criminal, not civil, law (the retroactive prohibition). But besides that, there are exclusions decided on a case by case basis in the S.Ct.