Robert Mueller Has Impaneled a Grand Jury in the Russia Probe. Here’s Why That’s Important Emily C. Singer - Mic
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Late night comedians Trevor Noah, Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert joke about reports that Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller issued grand jury subpoenas related to Donald Trump Jr's 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer. (Eyewitness News)

Special counsel Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury as part of his probe into the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russia, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, a clear sign the investigation is heating up and could continue to drag on for months.

The fact Mueller impaneled a grand jury doesn’t mean one or more indictments are imminent, but it does provide some clues about where the investigation stands. For one, a grand jury had already been convened for former national security adviser Mike Flynn, who resigned in February after misleading White House officials about his contacts with Russians during the campaign.

“If there was already a grand jury in Alexandria looking at Flynn, there would be no need to reinvent the wheel for the same guy,” Stephen I. Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas, told the WSJ. “This suggests that the investigation is bigger and wider than Flynn, perhaps substantially so.”

Impaneling a new grand jury also provides Mueller with another investigative tool as he seeks to get to the bottom of whether Trump campaign officials colluded with the Russians — who, per U.S. intelligence officials, orchestrated cyberattacks against Democratic institutions to try and influence the 2016 presidential election.

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