Indicted Kremlin-Linked Firm Challenges Mueller's Legal Authority
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Tierney Sneed | June 25, 2018 4:22 pm
The Russian firm that special counsel Robert Mueller has charged with funding Russia’s election meddling on social media and is run by an oligarch known as “Putin’s chef” challenged Mueller’s legal authority in court filings Monday.
The arguments that the company, Concord Management, presented to attack Mueller’s investigation were somewhat distinct from those previously put forward by former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, whose own efforts to challenge thescope of Mueller’s authority were rejected by a federal judge in D.C. in May. A separate Manafort challenge to Mueller’s legal authority brought in the Virginia case against him is still pending.
In its new filing seeking to have the charges against it thrown out, Concord Management argued that Mueller’s appointment was a violation of the Constitution’s Appointments Clause and that the Justice Department’s regulations pertaining to special counsels were unlawful.
“Here, the Deputy Attorney General and the Special Counsel are attempting to exercise authority neither the Constitution nor Congress has conferred, and this Court should dismiss the Indictment to restore the checks and balances the Constitution demands,” the firm’s lawyers said.
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and they work for us, if you are republicans (they don't) ........................got it.....................Congress funds all investigations.............and Congress confirmed the people to investigate under Article II of the Constitution................got it....................
