Piggybacking your comment to tell the rest of the Reddit community how huge this is. Ellis was the one who was screaming at Mueller’s prosecutors that the indictment was just to get Manafort to flip on Trump. I was hopeful it was just grandstanding, but this part of the ruling made me feel more optimistic than I have in a while:
[T]he Special Counsel’s investigation of defendant falls squarely within the jurisdiction…