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Mokelumne Trekka posted:I for one am relieved sweet centrist old lady Nancy Pelosi intends to work with the Totally Normal and Reasonable Republican Party nancy pelosi is Good* and if that's your takeaway from what she's been saying you're actively looking for reasons she's Bad
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Imho this is a much more pressing area of concern than whether or not Mueller is safe https://twitter.com/gina_lolz/status/1060025820855590912
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Mokelumne Trekka posted:I for one am relieved sweet centrist old lady Nancy Pelosi intends to work with the Totally Normal and Reasonable Republican Party Can we stop with this poo poo for the Nth time? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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New acting AG: https://twitter.com/MattWhitaker46/status/894363989962100736
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Tibalt posted:I can a brilliant plan. he didn't have a tape recorder in his pocket. his, his word against the president.
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Sulphagnist posted:I am going to be pleasantly surprised if there are actually going to be large-scale breaking-into-the-news protests if Mueller gets fired. I always feel like this is a #resistance myth that will never actually materialize because people just don't care that much. If the original Muslim Ban is any indication, these kinds of major snap decisions can definitely trigger people to hit the streets in numbers. This particular scenario has the advantage of a plan already in place courtesy of orgs like MoveOn.
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cheetah7071 posted:Unfortunately, Ginsburg will finally keel over by then well yes i'll grant that a potential nightmare timeline is the one where Sotomayor tries to keep up with Ginsburg's workout routine and dies from the exertion please retroactively qualify everything I'm saying with "CURRENT scotus"
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evilweasel posted:My feeling is that he's wanted to shut this investigation down since it began, he'd been stopped by Republicans worried about the midterms, and now that those are over he's as far from the next election as he can be so what better time to provoke a constitutional crisis? You've got two whole years to change the subject. Two whole years? What are you talking about, the midterms were, what, like 6 months ago?
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Diogines posted:A prosecutor won't be able to use any record in a court if they can't prove when and how it was made. Copies of documents Mueller hides on a USB in his boot can't be used in a court, or at least not easily. You have no idea what you're talking about and I am embarrassed for you
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TulliusCicero posted:Lmao, the Acting Attorney General is a loving gamer and would be twitch streamer Looks like he does crossfit also. ughh
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mdemone posted:This depends on what you think John Roberts is, at his core. lizard person?
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I also like how you all believe the Wednesday morning Jeff Sessions firing is some carefully laid out master plan that WON'T immediately go to poo poo and become a huge mess. I mean Like Have you been paying attention to this White House? I expect we'll find out that the supposed new AG isn't a US citizen within 48 hours.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:nancy pelosi is Good* and if that's your takeaway from what she's been saying you're actively looking for reasons she's Bad skylined! posted:Can we stop with this poo poo for the Nth time? No.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:even if we assume Beer, Gorsuch, Alito, and Roberts all say "lol no the president can't be subpoenaed" (which I am dubious of for various reasons depending on Justice - for one thing, Alito never met a subpoena he thought was too broad or a police power he thought was fascist enough), Thomas was part of the majority on Clinton v Jones and I trust his particular flavor of insanity to be consistent and not influenced by such things as "consequences" And I don’t have this unwavering faith in Thomas and anyone’s model of his decision making. Besides, they don’t have to rule that the President can’t be supoenaed they just have to rule that the matters at hand are privileged and can’t be subpoenaed if the President says so. This court has shown multiple times a willingness to create insane bullshit reasons (see the VRA) to get their activist result. It seems increasingly likely they will do so again if needed.
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skylined! posted:Can we stop with this poo poo for the Nth time? welcome to New USPOL, it'll never stop  Trabisnikof posted:And I don’t have this unwavering faith in Thomas and anyone’s model of his decision making. i disagree with your general conclusion but you raise a moderately interesting specific hypothesis re: very specific subcategories of subpoena i'll bear that in mind as they come up
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skylined! posted:Can we stop with this poo poo for the Nth time? from your mouth to her ears
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Tibalt posted:I also like how you all believe the Wednesday morning Jeff Sessions firing is some carefully laid out master plan that WON'T immediately go to poo poo and become a huge mess. No one has even heard of this dude until now. Where the gently caress did he come from? How old is he? How much experience in law does he even have?
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Dems might take NJ-03 after all: https://twitter.com/amysrosenberg/status/1060272129277652992 If this is right, Chris Smith in NJ-04 will be only NJ republican left in office on a national level.
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skylined! posted:Can we stop with this poo poo for the Nth time? This is the price we pay for the thread merger. The Dems are bad forever and ever now.
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The Kingfish posted:She is obviously quite bad; you can tell from the things she's been saying. what things, precisely
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This time the Democrats are totally gonna kick the football guys!
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To confirm: Because Sessions resigned, trump can just appoint anyone without senate approval, right?
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Tibalt posted:I also like how you all believe the Wednesday morning Jeff Sessions firing is some carefully laid out master plan that WON'T immediately go to poo poo and become a huge mess. Conversely you’d have to be willfully ignorant to pretend this won’t have negative consequences for the investigation into Trump. There’s almost this attitude that hiring a PI would be just as effective as the Special Counsel’s investigation.
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cheetah7071 posted:Unfortunately, Ginsburg will finally keel over by then Well really if you think about it Trump's already won because death eventually comes for all things
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A poorly conceived snap hiring decision is why Mueller was assigned in the first place. This feels less thought out than the Comey firing.
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Tibalt posted:A poorly conceived snap hiring decision is why Mueller was assigned in the first place. he got senate republicans on board ahead of time
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Making your AG resign for unspecified reasons mere hours after a midterm going the other direction for you are surely the actions of an innocent man.
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https://twitter.com/Bernstein/status/1060264768383135744?s=19 Oh boy.
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evilweasel posted:what things, precisely 'we should work to unfuck the county as much as possible and also committee leaders are in charge of their committees' doesn't quite sound like what these idiots are trying to say it sounds like.
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Spiritus Nox posted:Well really if you think about it Trump's already won because death eventually comes for all things Thomas will retire if his best bud RBG dies or retires.
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KS Gov monkey paw curls
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TulliusCicero posted:No one has even heard of this dude until now. Where the gently caress did he come from? How old is he? How much experience in law does he even have? Well apparently he’s big into overclocking his PC and he wrote some stuff about Trump=good so he’s qualified... ...according to mango maurader.
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Spaced God posted:To confirm: Because Sessions resigned, trump can just appoint anyone without senate approval, right? No. Trump can appoint someone who has been previously Senate confirmed for anything other thing w/o a new confirmation. Someone who has not been senate confirmed for any other thing would need to go through confirmation.
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Spaced God posted:To confirm: Because Sessions resigned, trump can just appoint anyone without senate approval, right? Temporarily
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skylined! posted:'we should work to unfuck the county as much as possible and also committee leaders are in charge of their committees' doesn't quite sound like what these idiots are trying to say it sounds like. oh i know they're being idiots, i just want to see what statement precisely they're being idiots about
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Just gently caress everything. I hate him so goddamn much
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Soothing Vapors posted:You have no idea what you're talking about and I am embarrassed for you we need to ask the right questions, like [joinder joke here, im sorry im tired i can't]
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TulliusCicero posted:No one has even heard of this dude until now. Where the gently caress did he come from? How old is he? How much experience in law does he even have? 2004-2009 USAG for the southern district of... Iowa 2009-2014 ???, probably lawyering 2014-2017 managing partner of a law firm and also executive director of that place investigating Hillary Clinton for Everything also under no circumstances google his 2004 picture
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TulliusCicero posted:No one has even heard of this dude until now. Where the gently caress did he come from? How old is he? How much experience in law does he even have? He wrote an article about how mueller was totes bad
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