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OAITW r.2.0

(24,656 posts)
1. Thinking can change....
Tue Dec 12, 2023, 11:16 PM
Dec 2023

especially when $ is involved. If you are a conservative Justice, your vote is for sale.

RockRaven

(15,019 posts)
2. Might be good for lulz now, but nobody should expect intellectual consistency
Tue Dec 12, 2023, 11:19 PM
Dec 2023

from Boofboy. Instead expect partisan political expediency. And outright corruption.

dweller

(23,674 posts)
3. I seem to recall
Tue Dec 12, 2023, 11:21 PM
Dec 2023

Mueller saying the same thing about the Pisswig to the Senate committee at the end of his investigation



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emulatorloo

(44,192 posts)
5. I recall Mitch McConnell said similar after impeachment #2.
Tue Dec 12, 2023, 11:35 PM
Dec 2023

He said congress “lacked jurisdiction” but Trump could be held accountable legally for J6.

ancianita

(36,146 posts)
6. That's it -- the whole constitutional argument. Even for originalist Clarence Thomas.
Tue Dec 12, 2023, 11:52 PM
Dec 2023

But as Weissman says, all that really matters is FIVE. Michael Dreeben's got this.

ancianita

(36,146 posts)
7. Not exactly. 25 years ago, he quoted Article 1, Section 3, Clause 7 of the U.S. Constitution.
Tue Dec 12, 2023, 11:58 PM
Dec 2023

It will be up to Michael Dreeben to orally argue the words and deeds by Trump before and during Jan 6 that put him into the realm of "candidate" and out of the perimeter of presidential actions; therefore, no immunity.

MurrayDelph

(5,301 posts)
9. Everyone is forgetting the most-important detail
Wed Dec 13, 2023, 12:44 PM
Dec 2023

Last edited Wed Dec 13, 2023, 07:04 PM - Edit history (1)

When he wrote that 25 years ago, the target of the article was a Democratic president that he expressed his hatred for during his hearing.

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