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‘Garbage Dressed Up as Legal Argument’: Lawyers, Law Profs ‘Baffled’ by Trial Memo’s Defense of Trum

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  1. hawgsalot

    hawgsalot Well-Known Member

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    LOL every dirty politician get's a pass because they may run for office again? How do you square that with you guys getting foreign dirt on Trump, he was running.
     
    hawgsalot, Jan 21, 2020
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    Cubed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yes it is.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress

     
    Cubed, Jan 21, 2020
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    True. It is quite clear that the nation is dividing into, on the one hand patriots and on the other hand, Trump supporters.
     
    bx4, Jan 21, 2020
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  4. Texas Republican

    Texas Republican Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That is one opinion on the definition, but it’s not a crime. It’s not something that can get someone sent to prison.

    Eric Holder ignored congressional subpoenas and nothing happened.
     
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    Holder was forced to by the courts.
     
    MolonLabe2009, Jan 21, 2020
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  6. MrTLegal

    MrTLegal Well-Known Member

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    Trump is arguing that he can actively order all current and former employees to keep silent and that the federal courts can never intervene.
     
    MrTLegal, Jan 21, 2020
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  7. MrTLegal

    MrTLegal Well-Known Member

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    You do not need an explanation for why Government Officials should not invite or encourage foreign interference in our elections, let alone to specifically target political rivals.
     
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  8. MrTLegal

    MrTLegal Well-Known Member

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    Eric Holder did not ignore congressional subpoenas. He voluntarily appeared and testified four times.

    Impeachment does not require a criminal statute.
     
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    No, he was not.
     
    MrTLegal, Jan 21, 2020
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    Must be why he got a contempt of Congress because he was so forthcoming.
     
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  11. MrTLegal

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    A majority vote almost exclusively along party lines is why he got contempt of Congress.

    The same is true for why Donald Trump is impeached.
     
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    Oh, you mean like the dem clown shows impeachment?
     
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  13. Texas Republican

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    Maybe it needs to be challenged.
     
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    IIRC, he refused to release the records on providing guns to the cartels.
     
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    I love that video showing, Trump skulking around in the dark of night, trying to cover up his interest in having countries investigate the Bidens, not to uncover corruption mind you, but to secretly and covertly gain a competitive advantage in the 2020 election. :roflol:

    Trump needed a super-secret foreign spy Ukrainian (and maybe also a Chinese) dossier to dig up dirt against such a historically strong campaigner as Joe Biden.

    So he blabbed everything to CNN/MSNBC. It's an admission of guilt, I tell ya'!!! The proof is right in front of your very eyes!!! :icon_picknose:

    :rolleyes:
     
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    Go ahead and schedule another "Scream at the Sky" event for sometime late next week.

    Or keep armchair lawyering, either way is fun.
     
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    there was no impeachment inquiry, see the difference, obstructing an impeachment inquiry is impeachable in itself

    "Lindsey Graham: A president who doesn't comply with Congressional requests for information is subject to impeachment."

    https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1181682899424350209

     
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  19. MrTLegal

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    That challenge is currently at the Appellate level
     
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    He also needed a sekret plan to get rid of Yavanovich instead of just calling her up and firing her whenever he wanted.
     
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    There is a new book out uncovering the Biden’s corruption with documentation and zero unnamed sources so...
     
    Hoosier8, Jan 21, 2020
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  22. MrTLegal

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    I said as much.
     
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    Yeah Obama never claimed Executive Privilege over the actual crime of selling guns to known felons in global drug cartels to protect his "wingman".

    Oh wait.

    Yeah, he did.
     
    vman12, Jan 21, 2020
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    yes, republican put on a clown show there too, and now we hear Nunes had connections with Ukraine too, what up with that?
     
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  25. MrTLegal

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    It is an admissible of guilt explicitly because he is a ****ing moron.

    How many times has Trump or his defenders made that same statement publicly? If he, or his team, believed that statement was not an admission, then they would surely have been repeating it over the course of the last several months.
     
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