Professor Jed Shugerman‘s recent New York Times Op-Ed on the Mueller report is cited and analyzed by Josh Marshall in an article published by Talking Points Memo.
I wanted to flag your attention to a really important opinion column that appeared yesterday in the Times. It’s by Jed Shugerman, a law professor at Fordham. Shugerman gets into a number of points about the collusion portion of the Mueller Report that I’ve been trying to make sense of myself. To put it more specifically, I’ve been trying to make sense of the disconnect between the Report itself and its media portrayal. Trump’s campaign didn’t just collude. They conspired and coordinated with Russia. And Mueller proves it.
The key issue, as Shugerman explains, is that the investigators were explicitly applying a “reasonable doubt” standard to the evidence. They specifically and explicitly make clear multiple times that that was the standard they were applying. That may sound like some technical, narrow point. But it’s not. It makes a huge difference for the conclusion.