Kyle Skinner  //  5/8/19  //  Daily Update

Mueller fought to keep Comey from releasing his memo on conversations with Trump, fearing it would allow Trump and others to change their stories. The House will vote tomorrow on whether to hold Barr in contempt for refusing to comply with their subpoena. Jared Kushner briefed senators on an immigration proposal that will set up a new merit-based system that would maintain the number of legal immigrants at current levels. Two federal district courts have recently struck down gerrymandered election maps. A near-decade of Trump’s financial failures has been uncovered through tax documents from 1985-1994.

TRUMP: INVESTIGATIONS AND LITIGATION

Mueller fought to keep Comey from releasing his memo on conversations with Trump, fearing it would allow Trump and others to change their stories (CNN).

The House will vote tomorrow on whether to hold Barr in contempt for refusing to comply with their subpoena (Politico).

A second version of the Mueller Report with more information on why certain details were withheld has been released (The Hill).

One of Roger Stone’s associates, in explaining his refusal to cooperate with a subpoena, says he claims to challenge the legality of Mueller’s appointment as special counsel in court (The Hill).

White House counsel has written to Don McGahn’s lawyers to invoke executive privilege over documents provided to McGahn when he was being interviewed by the Mueller team (Lawfare).

McGahn plans to comply with their instructions, and will refuse a subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee (Politico).

IMMIGRATION

Jared Kushner briefed senators on an immigration proposal that will set up a new merit-based system that would maintain the number of legal immigrants at current levels (Politico).

CIVIL RIGHTS

The Senate Intelligence Committee has requested that the NSA provide them with an update on mass telephone surveilance (The Hill).

Robert Litt rebuts Jack Goldsmith’s argument that response to Attorney General Barr’s handling has been “overblown” (Lawfare).

DEMOCRACY 

Two federal district courts have recently struck down gerrymandered election maps (Slate).

A special prosecutor in Virginia said Monday that he’s presented two indictments of election fraud against someone who worked on a failed re-election campaign for a Republican congressman last year (AP).

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

A near-decade of Trump’s financial failures has been uncovered through tax documents from 1985-1994 (NYT).

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