Yesterday, the government shut down.
Which means that in about ten days, or 2/9 at the outside, the entire federal court system shuts down.
Which means that all funding for all special prosecutors runs out about the same time.
Which means Mueller’s task force is dead in the water by 2/9. no courts to enforce subpoenas or contempt citations. No grand jury. Nothing.
Could it be that Trump planned this shutdown in order to protect Manafort, Bannon, “ He went to Jarad’s!” and his own lard-filled, pimply, well-spanked, obese ass?
(Jarad’ s is a local chicago area jewelry chain with sickeningly cloy TV ads.)
From Buzzfeed:
The director of the Administrative Office of the US Courts, which manages the federal courts as well as federal public defender offices and the US Sentencing Commission, sent a memo to judges and other officials dated Jan. 17 saying the judiciary had enough money on hand to stay open and pay employees through Feb. 9, even if the government was not to reopen by then.
The judiciary would pay salaries and operating costs through its “fee authority and no-year appropriations,” director James Duff said in the memo. Jurors would also continue to be paid during that roughly three-week period.
The federal courts stayed open and operational during the 16-day 2013 shutdown, although some judges delayed schedules in civil cases to accommodate scaled-back operations at the Justice Department.
Maybe not. I don’t think he or his attys were smart enough for that.
Then again . . . .