Even I think the report will be released, and I have zero respect for our rolling-over-and-peeing-on-themselves party. Cannon has no authority.
(Yesterday’s combo snark/self congratulation for not contesting the election was especially weak.)
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Jesus Herbert Walker Christ with a hula hoop! These Republicans are such absolute shitweasels.
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I’m guessing Cannon is using this as a way to keep her name in the game.
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I hear Panama is nice.
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Judge (Justice? Chief Justice?) Cannon has ordered all of us to no longer post negative comments about the former reality TV show host, felon, and lifelong criminal and conman on TPM or any other forum.
Ignore her.
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It may be safely ignored as a proper de jure interpretation, but not in our new de facto reality. I think we are seeing Kellyanne Conway’s, oh so convenient for some, concept of Alternative Facts become our new manifest destiny.
How far down the rabbit hole will America tumble? And/or are we entering into a Trumpian version of a Panglossian world where everything he says or does is good and will lead to good results, pain, suffering, loss and evil in the world notwithstanding?
In Voltaire’s Candide, Dr. Pangloss cheerily observes after the Lisbon earthquake…, “For, all that is is for the best. If there is a volcano at Lisbon it cannot be elsewhere. It is impossible that things should be other than they are; for everything is right”.
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Do not surrender in advance. They do not control reality.
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Good grief. Is there a way to get her sanctioned or removed from the bench? What would it require? @txlawyer
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Well! Then clearly she has a mandate!
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Impeachment. That’s the only way.
We had a shitty and malignant federal district court judge named John McBryde for many years. The Fifth Circuit got so sick of his bullshit after a while that they ordered he could not be assigned any new cases for a year.
McBryde sued the Fifth Circuit in D.C. The district court (IIRC) ruled against him, but he appealed up to the D.C. Circuit, which held that as an Article III judge, he couldn’t be barred from doing judge stuff.
The Fifth Circuit tried to take it up to SCOTUS, but the 1-year ban expired and thereby mooted the case.
Anyway, McBryde finally croaked a couple years ago. Still on the bench. Fuck that guy.
ETA: “Still on the bench” at the time he died. But remind me to work up script for a low-budget horror movie. Can’t decide between The Corpse Judge and Corpse Court.
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He should give it directly to the President, who should then release it as an official act on January 20 at 10:00 AM.
immunity!
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Obviously, this woman will be Trump’s first choice if a SCOTUS vacancy occurs.
Does Joe have the fortitude? Guessing he does not.
But! Presidential immunity, right? Or does your scenario imply that presidential immunity has only been granted to one party?
For those of us who had to suffer the indignity of Ken Starr dredging up every real and/or perceived peccadillo of President Bill Clinton, I demand the release of this report on Trump’s real crimes.
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The pardon power doesn’t prevent a court from exercising its authority to sanction parties or their counsel for violating a (valid) court order. See Rudy Giuliani.
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I Canute help but like this post… 
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So the Republicans are fucking things up and you blame the Democrats - got it… 
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My point is that the SCOTUS immunity ruling isn’t automatic, all-inclusive, and self-executing. A specific application of executive action like Biden releasing the reports would be challenged in lawsuits by the R’s and Trump’s newly weaponized DOJ. The way the SCOTUS would deal with Biden doing this is also unknown (but we can guess).
It would mean legal expenses and court time Biden would have to deal with next year. So why go through that, if Garland is already planning to release the reports after this Cannon nonsense is dealt with? Garland would pay no price because that’s standard DOJ procedure.
If Garland doesn’t release the reports – and I think he will – then that’s the time to light the torches and demand that Biden jump on that land mine and release them anyway.
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