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tijd ([personal profile] tijd) wrote in [personal profile] timelets 2017-06-15 08:46 pm (UTC)

There is already a blank permission in Rod Rosenstein's letter appointing Mueller. Sessions recused himself.

Ken Starr set two important legal precedents:

1. The ability to indict a sitting president.
2. The ability to nullify the executive privilege when forcing president's aides to testify to the grand jury.

March 20, 1998: President Clinton decides to formally invoke executive privilege.

May 5, 1998: Federal Judge Norma Holloway Johnson rules against President Clinton's claim of executive privilege.

June 1, 1998: Clinton's defense team decides to drop the appeal on the executive privilege ruling.

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