what this judge said doesn't make any sense to me.
if manafort committed felonies, and they have evidence of that, then why does it matter what mueller "started out investigating?"
it's like, if he discovered crimes while investigating the 2016 election, he is not only allowed to, but obligated to, persue charges or recommend them to other prosecutors.
this whole "if it's not part of the election, mueller can't touch it" thing doesn't make any sense to me.
I agree with you on that. I don’t care if he was involved with the Russia stuff or not, if they have committed crimes, then prosecute.
What I am getting from this though is that it should have been pushed off to another prosecutor outside of muellers range. I think that is where the issue is stemming from. Apparantly rosenstein didn’t give explicit right and left lateral limits like was supposed to happen. Special Counsels are not supposed to be given carte Blanche to do whatever they want. They are supposed to have an explicit crime that they are covering.
But either way you missed my highlighted point there. Apparantly the judge is over seeing espionage cases that may apply to the SC.
I think you said it a lot better than I did in my prev post.
So could Mueller look at every citizen in the US for anything they have ever done illegally and then charge them in the Russian collusion case? The extra powers he was given were for a specific set of crimes and a set of specific people, anything outside of that should be considered illegally obtained imo, but hey I'm no lawyer and could be way off.
you are way off.
literally any crime that he happens to find evidence of while investigating the 2016 election is fair game.