Mueller: Whitaker appointment has 'no effect' on ongoing legal challenge
By Morgan Chalfant - 11/19/18 06:13 PM EST
President Trump’s decision to tap Matthew Whitaker as Acting attorney general has “no effect†on an ongoing legal challenge to Robert Mueller’s authority, prosecutors working for the special counsel said in a court filing on Monday.
Mueller’s team addressed Whitaker’s appointment in a supplemental brief filed in the case involving Andrew Miller, an associate of longtime Trump ally Roger Stone. Miller is currently fighting a subpoena to testify before the grand jury in the special counsel’s Russia investigation.
Trump announced in early November that Whitaker would replace Jeff Sessions in an acting capacity after Sessions resigned as attorney general at the president’s request. Some of Trump’s critics have warned that Trump could be laying the groundwork to interfere in the Mueller investigation. Whitaker, who worked as Sessions’s chief of staff, has in the past been critical of the probe.
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