McConnell to work in 'total coordination' with White House on impeachment trial

[RocksInMyHead]

Alan Dershowitz: Look, the most important development happened TODAY. The Supreme Court of the United States absolutely pulled the rug out of part two of the impeachment referral by granting certiorari, by granting review in a case where Trump challenged a congressional subpoena! And the Supreme Court said we’re going to hear this case!… Think of what that message is – It’s Trump was right!

BREAKING: Supreme Court Cripples Second House Impeachment Charge Against President Trump! - Harvard Lawyer Alan Dershowitz Explains (VIDEO)

Dershowitz is flat out wrong here. The complaints in the Congressional subpoena cases stated that Congress was attempting to carry out an "improper criminal procedure" and that the records were not necessary for carrying out legislation. The minority dissent (by a Trump-appointed judge, no less) in the Trump v. Mazar's ruling stated that Congress could only investigate allegations of presidential criminal behavior as part of an impeachment inquiry.

The other case pertained to the rights of state and local courts to subpoena the President.

Seeing as this is related to impeachment - which one Trump appointee explicitly stated would authorize the contested subpoenas - and not a legislative or criminal inquiry, and Congress is not a state or local court, I don't see how a ruling on these cases would apply to the current situation.

 

[RocksInMyHead]

so every district attorney can subpoena the president if they want (that is one of the three cases they accepted)

That is irrelevant to what we're discussing. Congress is not a state or local court.

co equal branches of government

Yup.

the congress is not superior to the executive branch

But it does have oversight of the Executive Branch.

executive privileged is given to the executive branch to prevent congress from being superior

No, the purpose of executive privilege is to protect the function of the government. If the Executive Branch can assert executive privilege any time Congress asks for information in pursuit of its oversight duties, then Congress cannot perform those duties and the branches are not co-equal anymore.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Dershowitz is flat out wrong here.

How could anyone on the O.J. Simpson “Dream Team” be wrong?

Dershowitz is flat out wrong here.

How could anyone on the O.J. Simpson “Dream Team” be wrong?

 

[RocksInMyHead]

How could anyone on the O.J. Simpson “Dream Team” be wrong?

Oh, he's THAT Dershowitz? Never mind then - he's totally correct. Don't know what I was thinking!

 

[Mountainmanbob]

McConnell to work in 'total coordination' with White House on impeachment trial






The corruption continues.

No real news there.
Why wouldn't he?
M

 

[hedrick]

In a court sitution, the relevant case woul

Oh, he's THAT Dershowitz? Never mind then - he's totally correct. Don't know what I was thinking!

I don't want to sound snarky, but his chief skill is the ability to persuade juries that black is white, not expertise in constitutional law.

 

[RocksInMyHead]

I don't want to sound snarky, but his chief skill is the ability to persuade juries that black is white, not expertise in constitutional law.

Sorry, my sarcasm must not have come through.

 

[RocksInMyHead]

No real news there.
Why wouldn't he?
M

He's serving as the lead juror in a trial. Should the lead juror be coordinating with the defense?

 

[Mountainmanbob]

He's serving as the lead juror in a trial. Should the lead juror be coordinating with the defense?

Why not
the Dems do it all the time.
Nothing New Under The Sun.
M-Bob

 

[Arcangl86]

Why not
the Dems do it all the time.
Nothing New Under The Sun.
M-Bob

And of course you have support for that statement?

 

[TLK Valentine]

No real news there.
Why wouldn't he?
M

Like a good little employee.

 

[wing2000]

executive privileged is given to the executive branch to prevent congress from being superior

Let's see now...our founders gave the sole power to investigate and impeach to the House of Representatives...
The White House has blocked every request for witnesses, documents etc.
The House can not carry out its constitutionally mandated role.

Is that too hard to understand?

 

[RocksInMyHead]

Why not
the Dems do it all the time.
Nothing New Under The Sun.
M-Bob

They do, do they? When?

 

[Always in His Presence]

Senator McConnell Must Recuse

McConnell's statements, both in the OP and when he stated that there was "no chance" Trump would be removed, demonstrate that he cannot be considered an impartial juror. The idea that the lead juror would be coordinating with the Defense - and openly at that - is a complete travesty of justice, no matter who you're talking about.

If we follow the line of people who can be considered an impartial juror, how many Democratic Senators will have to recuse themselves?

All the ones running for President certainly
Then any other who have spoken of the President as guilty as a forgone conclusion.

Are there any Democratic Senators left?

 

[Original Happy Camper]

Let's see now...our founders gave the sole power to investigate and impeach to the House of Representatives...
The White House has blocked every request for witnesses, documents etc.
The House can not carry out its constitutionally mandated role.

Is that too hard to understand?

is executive privilege hard to understand?

 

[wing2000]

is executive privilege hard to understand?

Executive privilege cannot prevent disclosure of information essential to resolving the inquiry into whether the House should impeach the President and the Senate should remove him from office.

Executive Privilege and Impeachment | ACS

 

[KCfromNC]

If we follow the line of people who can be considered an impartial juror, how many Democratic Senators will have to recuse themselves?

I don't know. How many of them are meeting directly with the defendant and his attorneys to plan out strategy?

 

[TLK Valentine]

If we follow the line of people who can be considered an impartial juror, how many Democratic Senators will have to recuse themselves?[/quot÷]

I don't know.. how many have already explicitly said that they wouldn't be?

 

[grasping the after wind]

I’ll even go as far to suggest that the verdict has already been reached.

What is good for the goose....

 

[grasping the after wind]

I don't know. How many of them are meeting directly with the defendant and his attorneys to plan out strategy?

They have already been consulting for years with the prosecutor to plan out their strategy