{"id":35692,"date":"2019-03-22T11:35:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T15:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35692"},"modified":"2019-03-22T11:35:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T15:35:38","slug":"the-epstein-case-gets-murkier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35692","title":{"rendered":"The Epstein Case Gets Murkier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cernovich.com\/mystery-man-who-probably-partied-with-jeff-epstein-seeks-to-keep-the-epstein-case-file-sealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Cernovich<\/a> is reporting that the mystery man who filed the brief to keep the records sealed in the Jeffrey Epstein case formerly worked for Robert Mueller and James Comey.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A mystery man with massive wealth and power retained a powerful law firm to keep the records sealed in a case involving Jeffrey Epstein. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/03\/20\/jeffrey-epstein-related-lawsuit-1229908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See Politico here<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/politics-government\/article228199149.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Miami Herald\u2019s report here<\/a>.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>After the Second Circuit Court Court of Appeals, in a lawsuit involving investigative Julie Brown of the Miami Herald and others, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cernovich.com\/second-circuit-court-of-appeals-has-sided-with-cernovich-ordering-records-unsealed-in-jeffrey-epstein-case-unless-good-cause-is-shown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signaled it was prepared to order an entire vault of records unsealed<\/a>, the mystery man made the unusual move of filing what\u2019s known as an amicus curiae brief anonymously. Latin for \u201cfriend of the court,\u201d an amicus curiae brief is only supposed to be filed when the brief will help the Court reach a proper conclusion of law.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Seeking to bypass ordinary judicial procedure with high-powered lawyers, the mystery man filed a brief that would only benefit himself, and called it an <em>amicus<\/em> brief.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Miami Herald\u2019s lawyers properly called out this outrageous move, which would get an ordinary lawyer sanctioned for abuse of the judicial process:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>\u201cAs a preliminary matter, John Doe\u2019s proposed amicus brief is an improper vehicle by which to submit his arguments.<\/em> See United States v. Gotti, noting that the phrase amicus curiae means, literally, \u2018friend of the court,\u2019 and \u2018serv[es] for the benefit of the court and for the purpose of assisting the court in cases of general public interest\u2019\u2026.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>\u201cJohn Doe is admittedly self-interested in seeking closure.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Evidently there are some very important people who engaged in some very awful activities and don&#8217;t want what they did revealed. If what they were involved in was illegal (as it appears to be), their activities need to be revealed and the appropriate justice applied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Cernovich is reporting that the mystery man who filed the brief to keep the records sealed in the Jeffrey Epstein case formerly worked for Robert Mueller and James Comey. The article reports: A mystery man with massive wealth and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35692\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10095,9643,11342,10945,1910,12043,3035],"class_list":["post-35692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-james-comey","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-lawyers","tag-miami","tag-miami-herald","tag-mike-chernovich","tag-robert-mueller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35693,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35692\/revisions\/35693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}