29th in the series — more on Mueller Barr’d, but first —

March 27th, 2019 by Charles Cameron

I think it’s a bit early for a victory lap ..

And now…

Rachel, 3/26/2019, which is where we started:

Rachel:

If Trump now gets his way.. 21 million AMericans will lose all health insurance just like that..

another 133 million, that’s half the country under the age of 65 wiloll get to take a spin on the roulette wheel ..

Rachel

:We got rid of that roulette wheel nine yers ago in this country with the Affordable Care Act..

If Trump gets his way..

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One final quote from Chuck Rosenberg, again, source unknown, but a treasure:

These statutes, sometimes in their interpretation, are more art than science ..

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  1. Zen:

    March 28th, 2019 at 2:00 am

    Maddow’s sports Analogy is neat, pithy and wrong.
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    Mueller is not an Independent Counsel like Ken Starr or Lawrence Walsh who operated under an entirely different statute; Meuller is a special prosecutor under a newer statute that replaced the independent counsel law, a change passed by a large bipartisan majority (after Ken Starr, Democrats decided independent counsels had their downside).
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    Mueller while having much greater latitude than a typical US attorney, nevertheless reported to the Attorney-General ( or when recused, the Deputy AG) and was subject to DOJ policy. So a better analogy would be Belichick letting Brady call his own plays so long as he continued to report to the Head Coach

  2. Charles Cameron:

    March 28th, 2019 at 4:53 am

    Agreed on the difference between ICs and SC — I don’t recall, but I think that point was made to Rachel (I’m mostly scanning for chyrons, and when I come back with my notes I leap from minute 17 to minute 22 without re-checking the intervening matter — and the analogy, as an extended sports analogy, was inherently pleasing to me. But Brian Williams, after I got home from dialysis today, said something to the effect tat “punt” was a word that had been used a lot recently, and he wanted an attorney’s sense of whether it was apt or inept.. so there’s some awareness that metaphors may be tight or loose or flat out misleading.
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    As to what Barr’s actual role was / is, I suspect his friendship with Mueller and their mutual respect may count for more than the left expects. Barr may have a view of presidential power that’s a couple of standard deviations out from the norm, but he also has a reputation — as does Mueller — for appreciation for process and integrity in service of truth.
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    So we shall see..