I take it the judge didn't reject the indictment. Right? Judges are not just passive observers of the proceedings between lawyers, they have standards, too. If an indictment is weak, it will fail in court. This indictment of Stone has substance otherwise it would not have been granted the right to proceed.
January 25, 2019
By Noah Feldman
The indictment of Roger Stone, (click here) who was arrested Friday by the FBI and charged with lying to Congress, provides the first detailed evidence that Stone was a go-between for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign with WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. In 2016, WikiLeaks had and released a large numbers of emails that had been stolen by Russian intelligence from the Democratic National Committee and from Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Stone’s coordination between the campaign and WikiLeaks is substantive, from what the court filings show. Stone, a Republican political operative and confidant of Trump, got advance notice of WikiLeaks document releases that he passed on to the Trump campaign. That included information about an “October surprise,” which turned out to be the leaking of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails....
