"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so." – Immanuel Kant
As many as it takes to get the right decision, of course.
Although, I must say, between Judge Friedrich’s lines is the distinctly weary sense of “For the umpteenth time, you silly rabbits!”
“The appointment does not violate core separation-of-powers principles. Nor has the Special Counsel exceeded his authority under the appointment order by investigating and prosecuting Concord,” she said, referring to the Russian company that sought for the charges to be dismissed on the basis that Mueller lacked the authority.
I fought the law, and the law won!
When an old friend of mine represented Nicaragua against the US in The Hague, he was called a traitor, too — but he did it because he was seeking justice, not money.
Of course the law didn’t apply to him! He’s a Republican, and he was voted in to Congress. IOKIYAR! Didn’t Duke Cunningham teach you anything?
A judge who rules in favor of America and the rule of law rather than the Russians?
Where is the loyalty? Sad.
We have to impeach him, it’s the only way to be safe!
I tread on myself?
I agree! Let’s skip the reruns and attempted do-overs and cut to the chase. tRUmp can save everyone a lot of time and trouble by simply pardoning everyone today rather than drag everything out. Instead of a slo-mo crisis, just bring it on and the country and its principles survive or they don’t.
If that is too much to face, maybe Dems can start thinking of whom They can impeach when the “red wave” turns out to be another hallucination by the marmalade Moussellini. That is, as soon as the pro-Vlad party of family destructionists is replaced by actual US citizens actually voting, let’s have a giant impeachment circus aimed at the sellouts in congress. See how they like it.
As long as there are to be distracting show trials, GOPigs should not be the only ones who get to play. Maybe a good place to start would be some Extreme Court injustice like, say, Clarence Thomas. What fun those hearings will be. Anita Hill can make a comeback, too.
Keep the silly rabbits out of this. OK, Trix are for kids (am I dating myself by remembering this) but I don’t fault the rabbits for making a move on them. (I do fault the parents for feeding Trix – basically colored globules of sugar and cardboard – to their kids.) These aren’t silly rabbits with cute floppy ears. These are low-life extraterrestrial orange-hair monsters.
So, so. so many problems with the Trump/con/fascist ‘intellectually’ coordinated attacks on the OSC regulation. To visit just a few:
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These attacks attempt to turn on their heads the very arguments that the Amright assiduously assembled against the federal independent counsel legislation.
And all their ‘intellectual’ contrivances and labors ended up being completely obviated and eventually, put to no purpose at all, as the Gingrich-created R unified congressional cabal short-circuited the initiative, fearing the statute would be turned on never-elected POTUS GW Bush, acted to curtail use the old-fashioned way: by REPEALING it! -
But what that repeal process did was leave behind a ginormous Rule of Law hole in the Constitution: What TF to do when the only federal agency with the constitutional power to prosecute alleged crimes is under the noblesse oblige of a POTUS who appears to be committing crimes?
Because otherwise all the repeal of the independent counsel act achieved was to legitimate Nixon’s Saturday Nite Massacre.
So, UNSURPRISINGLY, it was left to the affected agency itself - the DoJ - to devise a way around this dilemma.
Which it did: by devising, and promoting the POTUS of that day to pass (as was necessary to avoid turning the DoJ into the plaything of the next DEMOCRAT who ‘happened to be’ an authoritarian POTUS - per one of the great fears in the RW fever swamp) the Special Counsel regulations.
Really, it was the only way left to ensure even a bare modicum of the necessity for recusal in cases of clear conflict of interest. -
Thus, ironically the DoJ special counsel reg was devised BY highly educated and skilled Ivy League lifer DoJos - with extra attentive regard for withstanding attacks from all manner of legal skullduggery, including in particular the only actual threat it would ever have to face, the projected threat from constitutionalist scoundrels like Scalia origiinalists - to withstand attack from a total unicorn, a creature from the fevered imagination of the Doughy Pantloads and Dinesh D’Souzas, the only pillars of rightwing intellectualism left after WS Buckley Jr. bit the big one: an imagined challenge from the constitutionalist LEFT - a movement that has no leader, no members, no tradition, no roots, no intellectual basis and, to the point, actually lacks any existence at all.
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Not at all surprisingly, then, the KINDS of arguments that the coordinated and coordinating legal beagles for Concord Mgt and Paulie Rugs Manafort and Mickey Medallions Cohen and the coterie of deviated preverts gathered about Roger Stone and the Congressional Free Dumbers, are all cheap defective knock-offs of attacks that were specifically designed and constructed over a generation ago to be launched like toxic mortar fire at the independent counsel law - which the special prosecutor reg is, if nothing else, definitely not that.
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So EVERY federally appointed judge, regardless of which preznit appointed her or him, finds her or himself either fully insulated from or unable to overcome, as the case may be, this coordinated challenge to the REGULATORY solution, because ALL of them, left, right or nuts, were trained by every influence in or around formal law school education to raise the magic cross symbol of exactly this sort of regulation against the so-called existential threat to the unitary POTUS-centric governance posed by the independent counsel act.
To be as clear as possible, every actual or supposed defect the independent counsel act ‘suffered’ from, the independent counsel reg was designed from the beginning to avoid completely.
This is b.s., Miss T: it’s form over substance, wrong form at that. and the very idea that it “adds gravitas” is pure slapstick comedy.
Their great-grandchildren colluded with Mooslin extremists to fake Barack Obama’s Hawaiian birth certificate. We’re waiting for Spankee’s detective to release that any.day.now.
Rage tweets about lack of loyalty to follow.
Being a Californio like Duke is, I’d have to say he’s a native son. Of a bitch.
An excess of rage in the little grey cells could eventually lead to the big explosion under the dura mater.
It is Mr. Shuham who has the byline. Ms. T. only contributed.
Thanks for the information about those dynamics. I’m still struggling to understand— what are the significant differences between the DoJ regulations and the old law, that make the regulations more palatable to conservatives?