Supreme Court halts fines against mystery company possibly linked to Mueller investigation

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued a temporary administrative stay of contempt sanctions that have been brought against an unknown company in a mysterious grand jury subpoena fight thought to be linked to special counsel Robert Mueller. The move is a fairly procedural one, and gives the federal government until Dec. 31 to respond. Roberts, or all of the Supreme Court, could easily decide to lift the stay even before then, depending on how soon as it hears from the federal government.

However, the stay is not relief against the grand jury subpoena, but rather a contempt citation brought by the federal government against the company, known only as "the Corporation." "The Corporation," which is owned by a nation identified only as "Country A," has thus far refused to comply with a grand jury subpoena issued in federal court in Washington in a case that has remained extremely secretive.

The challenge reached the Supreme Court after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday night, rejected the company's appeal to quash the grand jury subpoena to turn over records. Then on Saturday, the company formally filed an application with the Supreme Court, asking it to intervene and stay the lower court's decision to comply with the subpoena — and also asked that the case remain under seal. The company had also asked the Supreme Court to halt the continuing $5,000 per week fine it is incurring for not complying with the subpoena, an effort Judges David S. Tatel, Thomas B. Griffith, and Stephen F. Williams of the D.C. Circuit also rejected this week. On Thursday and Friday, there was sealed action in the case at the D.C. Circuit. The D.C. Circuit denied a motion filed by the company, but no other information regarding the motion was revealed.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/supreme-court-stays-sanctions-against-mystery-company-possibly-linked-to-mueller-investigation

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James Comey: ‘There’s No Deep State’

In testimony, former FBI Director James Comey exclaimed “there’s no deep state” before going on to suggest that workers risk their jobs by “speaking out” –purportedly against President Donald Trump. During testimony before the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees last week, Comey was asked by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) for suggestions on how the nation should get back “on track” after the “storm” it is currently weathering – a clear reference to Trump’s presidency. Comey responded by launching into mini-speech about the resilience of America, while insisting there is no “deep state” and urging people to speak out: We are going to be okay. I’m asked all over the country that question, and people ask it with fear in their voice, “Are we going to be okay?” Republicans, Democrats, and independents. The answer is: We’re going to be okay. Because the culture of this nation, the culture of an institution like the FBI there’s no deep state. There’s a deep culture, in the military, in the intelligence community, in the FBI — those three I know very well — a commitment to integrity and the rule of law. No president serves long enough to screw that up. So the damage, by definition, will be short-term. Still important, but short-term. How short that term is depends upon the rest of us and whether we have the courage to risk our jobs and votes against us by standing up and saying this is not who we are and speaking out.

Still clearly addressing Trump’s presidency, Comey went on to state that the “giant,” as he described it, should wake up in response: That will cabin the damage and reduce it, but, in the long term, this will be another one of those jags in American’s line that we look at and say, look at the progress we made after this. Every time there’s great change in this country, we retreat. Right? Our upward line is an upward line, but it’s jagged. Right? And every so often, we go down, then we go back up. The key to going back up is, in my view, awakening the giant. Right? That great lump in the middle of America is where our values sit. We are a center-right, center-left country. And every so often, the giant stirs. And I’m going to get emotional if I say this. No one on this Earth knows this better than you, but when little girls were killed in Sunday school at the 16th Street Baptist Church, the giant stirred, and we got a Voting Rights Act and a Civil Rights Act and our line started up again. It’s up and down with us, up and down with us. The inflection back up depends upon the giant waking up. And that’s not a Republican statement or a Democratic statement; that’s a values statement. And then we’ll get back to disagreeing about immigration and taxes and all of those important things, but this nonnegotiable thing, everyone should speak up about it.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/23/james-comey-theres-no-deep-state/

I agree..finally truth from one of them..