CJ Grants 10-Day Stay in Mueller Grand Jury Materials Case

Chief Justice Roberts has granted a 10-day stay in the controversy between USDOJ and the House Judiciary Committee on the release of grand jury materials from the Mueller probe.

Under standard procedure, the application was addressed to the Chief individually as the Circuit Justice assigned to the D.C. Circuit, where the case comes from.

Assigned Justices regularly refer the issue of longer stays to the full court, but they sometimes grant short ones on their own to give the full court enough time to fully consider the matter. The stay granted today is only “pending receipt of [the Committee’s] response, due on or before Monday, May 18, 2020, by 3 p.m. ET”….

That is an unusually precise deadline. Looks like he really means it.

Jess Bravin has this article in the WSJ, written before today’s order, on the application and the underlying controversy.