CAFE Insider 04/22: Mueller v. Barr, a post-mortem

REFERENCES AND SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS

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The Mueller Report & Barr’s comments

• Mueller’s report, plus the executive summaries for Volumes I and II
• Bill Barr’s press conference, plus the transcript of his remarks

OLC Memos

• The 1973 and 2000 Office of Legal Counsel memos on indicting a sitting President

Congressional response

• House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler’s subpoena requesting the unredacted Mueller report

Federal Campaign Finance laws

• 52 U.S.C. Subchapter I, Disclosure of Federal Campaign Funds, Legal Information Institute

Rudy Giuliani

• An excerpt of Rudy Giuliani’s interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Preet’s interview, and a transcript of both interviews

Mueller & the role of the Special Counsel

• Video: “MSNBC Reporter Confronts Robert Mueller Outside Church After Easter Service; Mueller: ‘No Comment,’” RealClearPolitics, 4/21/19
• 28 CFR § 600, Special Counsel regulations
• “Special Counsel Investigations: History, Authority, Appointment and Removal,” Congressional Research Service, 3/13/19
• “Expired Independent-Counsel Law Leaves More Power with Justice Department,” Wall Street Journal, 5/10/17
• “How the Mueller report reminds us of Watergate,” Washington Post, 4/19/19

Reactions to & analysis of Mueller’s report

• “Obstruction of Justice in the Mueller Report: A Heat Map,” Lawfare, 4/21/19
• “Trump lawyers reviewed Mueller report for 10 hours before it was made public,” Reuters, 4/19/19
• “How a legal dispute between Mueller and Barr drove the end of the special counsel’s probe,” Washington Post, 4/20/19
• “Robert Mueller failed to do his duty,” Washington Post, 4/19/19
• “On live TV, instant Mueller report takes reveal the challenges of real time reporting,” Washington Post, 4/20/19
• “All the Mistakes Mueller Made in Declining to Prosecute Donald Trump Jr,” Slate, 4/18/19

Trump’s prior experience with depositions

• “Trump: A True Story,” Washington Post