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no bull and the aftermath.

The only thing that's changed is the administration and so you would be walking in and saying with

no new evidence, we are going to reopen a criminal case that the last administration closed

after a very considerable investigation and we're going to do it with no more evidence than

that we kind of have an icky feeling about the way Bill Barr conducted himself.

So if you're Mara Garland and Lisa Monaco and you're trying to reestablish the traditional

norms of the Justice Department which are that we make decisions based on the facts on

the law and not on politics and you don't use the instrumentalities of the Justice Department

to go after your political opponents, well that's a pretty uncomfortable thing to do to sweep

into office and reopen a matter just for no reason other than the administration has changed.

I'm Natalie Orpet and this is the LawFair podcast, February 14th, 2022.

Today on LawFair, we're publishing a piece by our editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes and

LawFair senior editor Quinted Jurassic that revisits the Mueller report.

Why?

Because as of today, the statutes of limitations on potential obstruction charges against

Donald Trump are beginning to expire.

Trump's Attorney General declined to prosecute but we have heard nothing from the current

Department of Justice about what, if anything, it is thinking about potential obstruction

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