LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “An aide to Roger Stone, a former adviser to Donald Trump, must turn over documents and testify before the grand jury hearing evidence in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, a federal judge ruled Thursday [8-2-18]. At the same time, Mr. Mueller is negotiating the terms of a possible interview with representatives of Emin Agalarov, a Russian-Azerbaijani pop star who helped arrange a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Trump campaign associates and a Russian lawyer. The Stone adviser, Andrew Miller, had challenged a subpoena that required him to answer questions before Mr. Mueller’s grand jury. He argued that Mr. Mueller was unlawfully appointed and ‘wields too much power with too little accountability,’ according to the ruling by Judge Beryl A. Howell, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Judge Howell rejected that argument, however, writing in her 93-page order that Mr. Mueller’s ‘power falls well within the boundaries the Constitution permits,’ in part because he is supervised by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, ‘who is himself accountable to the elected president.’”
-Sadie Gurman and Rebecca Ballhaus, “Aide to Former Trump Adviser Roger Stone Must Testify, Judge Rules,” The Wall Street Journal, August 2, 2018 4:31 pm