Trump has hired Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr to his defense team. This morning, he tweeted this: The defense seems to be: Trump wasn’t wrong. What’s wrong is the law. Trump can do as he pleases with foreign policy. This effectively obliterates checks and balances and reduces Congress to carrying out the president’s commands. Two …
A Republican talking point is there are no underlying crimes in the Articles of Impeachment. This is from Rep. Mark Meadows: In fact, Democrats have lots of first hand witnesses. The Senators can add Lev Parnas and John Bolton to the list if they want more. In response to the nonsense about no underlying crimes, …
Giuliani’s associate, Lev Parnas, turned a pile of documents over to the House investigators. Last night, the House released the first tranche. Occasionally the text messages are hard to read. (I put too many on a page) You can read the originals here. I updated my timeline with the new documents. If you need a …
[Note: I was working on this when the Parnas Document Dump happened, so I set this aside. I’ll post this now, and then later today post a thread on the Parnas docs. I’m currently doing that work on Twitter. So you’ll get two posts today.] Cynicism is as destructive and dangerous as lying from the …
The morning opened with the news that Trump, after strike that killed Soleimani told associates he was under pressure to deal with Soleimani from GOP senators he views as important supporters in his coming impeachment trial in the Senate In other words, Trump was: Making foreign policy decisions based on personal benefit, and Ordering a military …
Doug Collins says that Democrats are in love with terrorists. Mark Levin says Democrats hate America. Mitch McConnell says he wants to enact the Clinton Senate trial rules. They know these are lies. Spoiler: They’re trying to destroy. The “again” in MAGA signifies reactionist politics (as opposed to conservative politics) Reactionaries want to take us …
To see where things stand, we have to back up a bit. Senate Rule 1 (Senate rules) says the Senate trial kicks off when the House sends over notice of the impeachment: (As a few of my clever followers on Twitter pointed out, the word “whensoever” takes on added significance, given the current situation.) Pelosi …
While in law school, I attended a lecture from a visiting elections lawyer. Basically he was there to tell us what it’s like to be an election lawyer. He told us this story: A volunteer worker in a local election found a box of ballots that hadn’t been counted. She took the box out to …
John Bolton, who refused to testify in the House proceedings, said he’d testify at the Senate trial, if subpoenaed. This puts Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a tight spot. Why? Let’s do a quick review of the Senate trial rules. The full post I did is here. Rules V and VII, provide that the …
First, Trump tweeted a violation of the War Power Act, and thumbed his nose at Congressional power and the separation of powers doctrine: For a Twitter thread by Yale prof. Oona Hathaway on the laws broken by this tweets this tweet, click here. The House Foreign Affairs Committee responds by Tweet reminding the President he’s …
