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Boom! Lawyered

Meet the Awful Person Who Could Take Over the Mueller Investigation

Boom! Lawyered

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Immigration, News, History, Jeff Sessions, Reproductive, Racial, Trials, Law, Lgbtq, Supreme Court, Scotus, Government, Politics, Justice, Discrimination

4.8616 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Solicitor General Noel Francisco is well-positioned to take over supervision of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference should Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein resign or be fired. Everyone should be concerned about this line of succession.

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0:00.0

Hello, fellow law nerds. Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyered, a rewired.

0:12.5

Dot News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that really thinks we should just start

0:17.8

dropping podcasts every six minutes because apparently all of the

0:21.7

days last years long and I'm tired. My name is Imani Gandhi. And I'm Jess Piclo. Rewire.com News is the

0:29.9

leading non-profit journalism outlet devoted to reporting on reproductive and sexual health,

0:34.8

rights, and justice. And the team legal podcast is part of that mission.

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0:58.2

So just a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners and Amani. We're just

1:04.2

going to keep on, keep it on, aren't we? Because nothing's stopping. Nothing. I wish things would

1:10.1

stop happening for like just a minute, you know, so I could like just catch my breath.

1:14.5

But this morning, we wake up to the news that Rod Rosenstein is either A, being fired,

1:21.3

B, resigning, C, being drawn and quartered in the town hall square are four being shot into the moon

1:29.5

like basically those are the options on the table right now and i like how i said a b c and four

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because that's the sort of mindset that i'm in right now trump's america man we're all bananas so i don't

1:42.9

know about you but when i first saw the news via Twitter that he had been,

1:48.0

that he was going to resign and then, oh, maybe they walked that back and, you know,

1:51.6

the sort of like, is he leaving?

1:53.5

Is he not leaving right now?

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The first thought I had was, I'm tired.

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This is terrible.

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