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Obstruction of justice, in United
States
jurisdictions, is the
crime of
obstructing
prosecutors or other (usually government) officials.
Common law
jurisdictions other than the United States tend to use the wider offense of
perverting the course of justice.
Obstruction also applies to overt coercion of court or government officials via
the means of threats or actual physical harm, and also applying to deliberate
sedition against a court official to undermine the appearance of legitimate
authority.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstruction_of_justice
-- 2017 --
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June 10:
[Senator Diane] Feinstein calls
for investigation of 'all matters related to obstruction of justice'
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/10/politics/dianne-feinstein-chuck-grassley-judiciary-committee-investigation/index.html
December 4: John Dowd, President Trump's
outside lawyer... The "President cannot
obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under
[the Constitution's Article II] and has every right to express his view of any
case" ...
"The tweet did not admit obstruction. That is an ignorant and arrogant
assertion."
But Dems
will fight the Dowd theory ... "It is certainly possible for a
president to obstruct justice. The case for immunity has its adherents, but they
based their position largely on the consideration that a president subject to
prosecution would be unable to perform the duties of the office, a result that
they see as constitutionally intolerable."
The
Articles of Impeachment against Nixon began by saying he "obstructed, and
impeded the administration of justice."
https://www.axios.com/exclusive-trump-lawyer-claims-the-president-cannot-obstruct-justice-2514742663.html
December 5: 19 Times President Trump May Have Obstructed Justice
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/times-president-trump-obstructed-justice.html
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January
26: How Trump Built an Obstruction of Justice Case Against Himself
The president’s pattern of behavior may be enough to surmount the high legal
threshold for proving that he sought to stifle the special counsel’s
investigation.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/how-trump-built-an-obstruction-of-justice-case-against-himself/551588/
February
27:
Trump may not know how obstruction of justice works.
It’s another day in the Trump administration, so the president is
stringing together a series of tweets based on friendly Fox News programming
about how he has not committed any crimes.
Mixing things up from his usual routine of live-tweeting Fox & Friends,
Trump instead provided a kind of
greatest hits collection of recent Fox News coverage of his administration.
He strikes the familiar notes: that his campaign did not collude with Russia,
that he did not obstruct justice as president, that Hillary Clinton is the real
criminal, and, of course, WITCH HUNT.
But one point here stands out. Trump quotes Clinton-era special prosecutor Ken
Starr saying that
Trump did not obstruct justice because, as president, it was completely
lawful for him to fire the FBI director. That may be true, but it is also not
how obstruction of justice works.
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/147211/trump-may-not-know-obstruction-justice-works
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July 26:
Mueller Examining Trump's Tweets in Wide-Ranging
Obstruction Inquiry
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/us/politics/trump-tweets-mueller-obstruction.html
August 9:
Trump's 'Perjury Trap': Confess to Obstruction or Lie ...
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/trumps-perjury-trap-confess-to-obstruction-or-lie.html
August 20: Trump attacks 'disgraced' Mueller
and rails against 'phony' obstruction ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/20/trump-mueller-obstruction-russia-investigation-phony
August 22:
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August 29: McGahn Gave
Mueller Proof That Trump Obstructed Justice
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/08/29/mcgahn-gave-mueller-proof-that-trump-obstructed-justice/
October
17: Special Counsel Robert Mueller is expected to issue findings on
core aspects of his Russia probe soon after the November midterm elections as he
faces intensifying pressure to produce more indictments or shut down his
investigation, according to two U.S. officials.
Specifically, Mueller is close to rendering judgment on two of the most
explosive aspects of his inquiry: whether there were clear incidents of
collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, and whether the
president took any actions that constitute obstruction of justice, according to
one of the officials, who asked not to be identified speaking about the
investigation.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/world/crime-legal-world/robert-mueller-said-ready-deliver-key-findings-trump-probe/#.W83y_aUoHTQ
December 3: Trump’s latest tweets cross
clear lines, experts say: Obstruction of justice and witness tampering
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/03/trumps-latest-tweets-cross-clear-lines-experts-say-obstruction-justice-witness-tampering/?utm_term=.4744bd010568
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December 20: Trump's pick for attorney
general warns Mueller's obstruction inquiry 'fatally misconceived' in memo to
DOJ
Former Attorney General William "Bill" Barr, President Donald Trump's pick to
lead the Justice Department, reached a decisive and controversial conclusion
that Trump's interactions with ex-FBI Director James Comey would not constitute
obstruction of justice, according to a copy of a newly released June 2018 memo
to senior Justice officials.
The fact that Barr weighed in on such a sensitive issue and would be poised to
oversee special counsel Robert Mueller's work, if confirmed as attorney general,
will undoubtedly now thrust his nomination into greater controversy
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/19/politics/bill-barr-comey-obstruction/index.html
December 20: William Barr Agrees With
Trump's Lawyers: Firing Comey Wasn't Obstruction of Justice
Trump’s nominee made a case to the Justice Department that the president
couldn’t have broken the law—and that the special counsel could be fired for
looking into it.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/william-barrs-memo-about-mueller-parrots-trumps-own-argument-he-cant-obstruct-justice
-- 2019 --
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January 13: Three
newly empowered Democratic House committee chairmen, alarmed by statements over
the weekend by President Trump about his former lawyer’s planned testimony
before Congress, cautioned on Sunday that any effort to discourage or influence
a witness’s testimony could be construed as a crime.
The warning, a stark and unusual message from some of Congress’s most
influential Democrats, underscores the increasing legal and political peril
facing Mr. Trump. Democrats are beginning their own investigations of him as the
special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, appears to move toward a conclusion in
his investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia and potential
obstruction of justice by Mr. Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/13/us/politics/trump-cohen-testimony.html
-- 2020 --
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