>>6420785

The Panucchio departure is a good thing.

How good?

PANUCCHIO'S REPLACEMENT, NOEL FRANCISCO, CLERKED FOR JUSTICE SCALIA

From the archives

https://qresear.ch/?q=Panucchio

#1824777 at 2018-06-20 06:21:08 (UTC+1)

Q Research General #2299: Devine Between The Lines Edition

>>1824657

>Should Rosenstein step down now, Solicitor General Noel Francisco would take over the probe, not Panuccio.

HANG ON HANG ON

So after Rachel Brand quit, Jesse Panucchio took over as Assoc Att'y General

Brand had been behind Rosenstein

So if he gets fire/quits now, it's Noel Francisco?

NOEL FRANCISCO WAS A CLERK FOR JUSTICE SCALIA!

YOW look at this:

https://www.justice.gov/osg/staff-profile/meet-solicitor-general

We need to get up to speed on Noel Francisco ASAP.

(Long profile, good read) https://www.thedailybeast.com/will-this-man-save-the-justice-department

Sample: "Francisco now finds himself attached to a metastasizing controversy that could metaphorically break the department: If President Donald Trump fires Rod Rosenstein, Francisco-as the next-most-senior DOJ official-would take over his responsibility overseeing the special counsel probe. It wouldn't be his first time in the middle of a politically electric legal showdown. From the Clinton impeachment to Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's showstopping trial, Francisco has had a front row seat to some of the biggest scandals of the last two decades. And he's built a reputation for being committed to the rule of law and the constitutional order.

Francisco went to the University of Chicago law school and then clerked for former Judge Michael Luttig and Justice Antonin Scalia. After finishing his clerkships, Ted Cruz and Chuck Cooper-Attorney General Jeff Sessions' personal lawyer-recruited him to join Cooper's firm. Cooper told The Daily Beast that the three men became fast friends, and that Cruz and Francisco helped him write testimony he delivered to the House Judiciary Committee arguing for Bill Clinton's impeachment."

>>6421439

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-03-13/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-noel-francisco

1. Noel John Francisco was raised in Oswego, New York.

1. He played trombone in his high school's symphonic band.

1. He received a B.A. in economics with honors in 1991 from the University of Chicago. He earned his J.D. with high honors from the same university in 1996.

1. Francisco would be the first Asian-American to serve as a solicitor general, if confirmed by the Senate.

1. He was among the lawyers representing George W. Bush in the Florida recount during the 2000 presidential election. Ted Cruz, now a Republican senator from Texas, and John Roberts, now chief justice of the United States, were also part of the legal team.

1. Francisco was a clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia during the 1997 term.

1. Francisco served as associate counsel to then-President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003. He then served as deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel until 2005.

1. Francisco may be best known as Robert McDonnell’s lawyer. He represented the former Virginia governor when the Supreme Court overturned McDonnell’s conviction on corruption charges in 2016.

1. Francisco most recently worked at the Jones Day law firm in the nation's capital, where he worked with now-White House counsel Donald McGahn.

1. Francisco is on the board of directors of the Lumen Christi Institute, founded by Catholic scholars at the University of Chicago.

>>6421463

Key item: Francisco is already Senate confirmed.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/24/noel-francisco-dcs-suddenly-most-important-man/

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/24/noel-francisco-oversee-robert-mueller-probe-under-/

"Mr. Francisco was confirmed by the Senate in September 2017 on a narrow 50-47 vote, that fell largely along party lines. He once clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, whom he referred to as his “dear mentor,” during his Senate confirmation."

https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/meet-noel-francisco-conservative-supreme-court-litigator-take-oversight-mueller-investigation

"He has strong conservative credentials. He clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, was an associate White House counsel in the George W. Bush administration and also worked in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel for two years during the Bush administration.

Before getting to his current job, Francisco had already argued three cases before the Supreme Court, all frustrating the Obama administration. He successfully challenged President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board."

FAMILY BACKGROUND: https://heavy.com/news/2018/09/noel-franciscos-family/

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/24/solicitor-general-noel-francisco-next-in-line-to-oversee-russia-probe.html

Spotted having dinner with Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein on Wednesday Feb 28, 2018:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/28/politics/doj-officials-dine-together/index.html

Excellent article looking at Francisco's career and legal opinions, with particular focus on his view of executive power:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/24/solicitor-general-noel-francisco-next-in-line-to-oversee-russia-probe.html

"More than a decade later, as the Trump administration’s key defender at the Supreme Court, Francisco reiterated his belief that the Constitution “gives the president what the framers saw as the traditional means of ensuring accountability: the power to oversee executive officers through removal.”

“The president is accordingly authorized under our constitutional system to remove all principal officers, as well as all ‘inferior officers’ he has appointed,” Francisco wrote in Lucia vs. SEC, according to the Los Angeles Times.

A number of experts have said that Francisco’s arguments in that case suggest that he could be more reluctant to constrain the president’s control over the probe than Rosenstein has been.

Neil J. Kinkopf, a former lawyer in the Justice Department’s office of legal counsel who is now a law professor at Georgia State University, said Francisco went beyond the narrow issue the Supreme Court was facing in order to make an argument about the president’s wide authority to dismiss government officers.

“None of those issues had to come up. Noel Francisco reached out to raise them,” Kinkopf said.

The court ultimately declined to rule on that issue, but Francisco’s insistence on bringing it up is telling, Kinkopf said.

“It might make a difference if Mueller were to try to subpoena the president,” Kinkopf said. “It might make a difference if the president were to issue any order to Mueller.”

Francisco’s arguments in the case, alongside his affiliation with the Federalist Society, are “pretty strong evidence” that Francisco subscribes to the “unitary executive theory,” said Peter Shane, a professor at Ohio State University. Unitary executive theory generally holds that the president controls the entire executive branch of government and can wield that power with few limits."

>>6421498

Exactly.

This all looks very two-dimensional and cheap. Movie sets look sturdier than this thing. Doesn't appear it would last through a tropical storm.

>>6421676

I expect to hear the term "Logan Act" a great deal in the future.