The Supreme Court takes up a secret case involving Robert Mueller and a mystery company
"Individual 1," meet "Country A."
IAN MILLHISER
DEC 24, 2018, 9:54 AM
Chief Justice John Roberts handed down a fairly routine order over the weekend, which temporarily halts a pending case until the rest of his Court has time to consider the matter. Yet, while orders briefly pausing cases are common at the Supreme Court, everything else about this case is bizarre. It involves a mystery company from a mystery country — and is widely believed to involve special counsel Robert Mueller.
The parties to this case, which bears the non-descriptive title In re Grand Jury Subpoena, are an enigma. A lower court order ruling against the mystery company identifies that company only as “the Corporation,” and notes that this corporation is “owned by Country A.”
Nothing in that order mentions Mueller or his team, but on Sunday Politico connected the case to Mueller after one of their reporters “heard a person connected to the appeal request a copy of the special counsel’s latest filing in the case.”
The legal issue in the case involves a grand jury subpoena seeking unknown information from the Mysterious Corporation From Country A. As this company is owned by a foreign nation, it argued that it may ignore this subpoena under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), which provides that “a foreign state shall be immune from the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States and of the States” except in certain limited circumstances.
https://thinkprogress.org/the-supreme-court-takes-up-a-secret-case-involving-robert-mueller-and-a-mystery-company-7319abb219dc/
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