Mueller wins again with appeals court ruling against Stone associate

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Source: Politico

Special counsel Robert Mueller notched yet another legal victory on Monday even though his Russia investigation is over, as a federal appeals court rejected a bid to reexamine a lawsuit questioning the constitutionality of his appointment.

In a one-sentence order, a three-judge panel from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals turned back a request for a rehearing of a case it decided in February arguing that Mueller should have been nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Separately, the D.C. Circuit on Monday also denied a petition for a rehearing before the full court.

At issue is a case challenging Mueller’s authority brought by Andrew Miller, who refused to testify before a federal grand jury under subpoena about his former employer, the longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone.

Miller’s attorneys moved to quash the subpoena by citing alleged flaws in Mueller’s appointment but lost in a unanimous opinion that found no flaw in Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s May 2017 decision to put the special counsel on the job investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/29/robert-mueller-roger-stone-associate-court-ruling-1292498

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This is about Andrew Miller trying to fight his subpoena in the Roger Stone case.

I wonder what he's trying to hide.

[elleng]

1. 'A federal appeals court rejected a bid to reexamine a lawsuit questioning

the constitutionality of his appointment.'

[yellowcanine]

2. Andrew Miller, not Stephen Miller.

[pnwmom]

3. Right, thanks!

[iluvtennis]

4. Great news against the "it's a witch hunt folks" nt

[DeminPennswoods]

5. Miller was more of a stalking horse, imho

I think this was a test case lawsuit for Stone, a probably others, to get out from under the SCO investigation.

Kind of doubt Miller's GJ appearance and testimony are of big importance, but the SCO could not allow him to set precedent of ignoring or fighting the subpoena.

[Jumpty]

6. Mueller hasn't lost one motion

Stove and his associates often file frivolous claims that are always rejected by the judge.

[Firestorm49]

7. Honestly, it's like every one of these Trump guys are bad actors in a really bad production.