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isn't he? of your heart and mind?
and of the Jews.
isn't he? of your heart and mind?
Good find there. I didn’t realize that about the Nixon situation - the Clinton was slightly different because they’d already had an independent counsel investigate (so the committee side of things were pretty perfunctory). I was thinking more along the lines of needing a vote to “legalize” any subpoena power
The best phrasing I suppose is there is no requirement that they have such an inquiry nor is there any law or regulation providing that a failure to hold a vote to approve the inquiry allows the WH to ignore issued subpoenas.
or "regicide" as Conservatives are now calling it
Regicide is what Joe diGenova called it. It is not what conservatives are now calling it.
yeah, you're right. He was given a platform on the most watched news service and Right Wing propaganda machine and no one denounced or even challenged him.
Right. As I said, regicide is what diGenova called it. It is not what conservatives are calling it.
The House needs to minimize the possible loopholes for Trump to use. IDK what is delaying the formal House Resolution establishing impeachment proceedings. The only thing that makes sense is that Pelosi doesn't want Nadler (Judiciary Committee chair) as the face of the proceedings.
To circumvent that, have the resolution create a select committee to do all the hearings, chaired by somebody else, and then have that committee refer the findings to Judiciary for final wording. The Judiciary Committee has provided the venue for formal drafting of articles of impeachment in the three previous impeachments. Follow precedent here, to limit Trump's loopholes.
Protecting membership from having to make what might be an un-popular vote in their particular district.
It is, in fact, what diGenova called it. It is not what a single other conservative has called it.
Protecting membership from having to make what might be an un-popular vote in their particular district.
I say just pass an article of impeachment for habitual obstruction of congressional oversight and attach this 8 page letter as exhibit A, then attach all his bullshit assertions of executive privilege as exhibits B-Z, and roll with it (along with articles for the Ukraine and China stuff). I don't see the point of dragging this out or giving the packed SCOTUS a chance to rule on it - the last thing we need is more legal precedent for an authoritarian executive branch. Get it on McConnell's plate by Halloween, let him have his show trial and rubber stamp Trump's behavior, and spend 2020 running ads showing that Senate Republicans are on board with Trump's lawlessness. The American people have got to decide whether they want our experiment in democracy to end as an authoritarian banana republic or not. I still have some faith that we'll make the right decisions in November 2020.
Give them a couple of days.
That’s just weak.