With the country gripped by anticipation of the transmission of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report to the attorney general, Mueller mania has swept over Washington. Seriously. With no report in sight, this is what the news cycle has come down to: a parody cow’s Twitter account has overtaken a congressman’s, and the commander-in-chief has been preoccupied with a Conway. Such is the state of a town waiting for big news. As the wait continues, we’re rounding up what lawyers are saying about the Mueller report.
It has been 674 days since Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel. Since his May 2017 appointment, the former FBI director and WilmerHale partner has netted nearly three dozen indictments, brought even more criminal charges, and secured the convictions or guilty pleas of members of the Trump campaign or those in the president’s orbit.
