WASHINGTON ¨C A federal judge tore into all of the legal arguments that a lawyer for President Donald Trump¡¯s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, made on Wednesday in his long-shot civil case to convince her that special counsel Robert Mueller¡¯s investigation has run amok and should be reined in.
¡°I don¡¯t really understand what is left of your case,¡± U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said to Kevin Downing, Manafort¡¯s attorney, after peppering him with a lengthy series of questions.
Manafort filed a civil lawsuit on Jan. 3 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the Justice Department official who appointed the special counsel, in a key legal test of how far Mueller¡¯s mandate extends.
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