With a compromised and corrupt judiciary full of Imbecile-1 judges, why would the scumbag back down? It is only a matter of time when the payback for a lifetime appointment will arrive.
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The fact that he is a maniac does not mean success.
It means that he is a maniac and should be portrayed as such.
His âpresidencyâ was tenuous at best. Now it is a dictatorship attempting to game the U.S. legal system into accepting that.
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Things can always be declared inadmissible, which could blow up criminal casesâŚ
[/quote] But an impeachment hearing wouldnât hold same legal standards?
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Could also see the Appeals deny it, and the Supremes decide not to hear it, if Roberts just wants to stay out of the mess entirely and not get his hands dirty.
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His only real hope (I think) is that the Supremes will issue an emergency stay because reasons. Any of them who vote that way will, of course, be actively participating in a criminal conspiracy.
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Bingo. CJSCOTUS would love to have this die in the lower courts.
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I recall that they presented themselves as happily willing to turn over the documents but asked for a âfriendlyâ subpoena first. Maybe there is a god.
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Impeachment is not a judicial process. It is an entirely political process.
That being said, the CJ of SCOTUS presides over the âtrialâ in the Senate (a part of the process we have written off in this situation anyway), so I suppose itâs possible he could make âevidentiaryâ rulings. Iâd have to look that up though. In the context of impeachment, which isnât even subject to judicial review, that kind of thing would seem to be very much form over substance.
Congresscritters running around pretending they donât know about things that are in fact already part of the public congressional record and being told by the CJ that they âcanât considerâ certain facts in determining whether Trump sould be impeached, something for which there is no applicable legal standard on which the CJ can give Congress âjury instructionsâ in the first place (i.e., there is no judicial review available), just strikes me as foolishness. I can imagine the GOP may very much want to go down that sort of rabbithole though, using it for messaging that Trump should survive impeachment because it wouldnât be fair or just to convict him on the basis of facts that would be excluded from a criminal trial. Their entire game with this so far has been pretending that impeachment actually requires some sort of statutory or common law crime as opposed to being a remedy Congress can resort to for pretty much any reason it deems appropriate.
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I love the smell of desperation in the morning.
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And advantage of that would be that they could deny with an unsigned opinion, if I recall the rules correctly.
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A roundabout way of agreeing with youâŚ
People should ask themselves three questions about Robertsâ mental retardation (or lack of it)âŚ
(1) Did Hitler have a Supreme Court** he bowed to?
(2) Did Stalin have a Supreme Court he bowed to?
(3) Does Putin have a Supreme Court he bows to?
So why the hell would Roberts want to be Trumpâs lackey? This is a retardation, not ideology question.
** Or equivalent
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Iâll bet Consovoy, whether he wins or loses, will get paid enough to buy a good sized yacht when this is all over. Whoâs paying for him and his associates? Who pays Trumpâs private legal fees?
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Dude, I really want to read some of your court filings.
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It remains perplexing why people (in general, not specifically the poster) invoke the fantasy that John Roberts âcares about his legacy and that of the Supreme Court.â
Roberts is a Republican. Another technocratic Eichmann. He is not one of the good Nazis because there are no good ones, never were. The rule of thumb continues to be ignored by people who should know better: in criminal tyrannies, businesses fall first, the judiciary second, and law enforcement third. It has played out almost on schedule, but still people cling to false saviors and other such nonsense.
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Depends what kompromat theyâve got on Roberts.
Most of these fuckers are dirty, look at Justice Kennedy, his kid and Trump.
Or KavanaughâŚ
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My impression was that all this is being paid out of his campaign funds. Which might also help explain the perpetual campaign.
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âŚAnd everyone in the campaign has a private office rented in Trump Tower, so win-win all around!
Wonder if he puts up his lawyers there, tooâŚ
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Gee, if thatâs true, at the rate Spankeeâs going now, there arenât going to be any campaign funds left a year from now.
Not that I care. But Iâll betcha the RNC just might.
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HahaâŚgood court writing is not flowery, is to the point, doesnât really rely on analogies that often and conveys the analysis without any fun or flare. The judge ainât got time for it and neither does your client. Sooooo, I subject you guys to it haha
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Trump is appealing the decision to . . . wait for it . . . the D.C. Court of appeals headed by Judge Merrick Garland.
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