Someone forgot to take Ambien today.
I do not remember, was the run up to Nixonâs resignation as crazy as we are today? The mental midget that we call President is beyond anything that a fiction writer could have devised.
It may have been crazy in certain Beltway circles but national news played it straight and there was no social media to inflame the uninformed/uneducated.
Why doesnât he just jump up and down with neon lights beaming about him like an old Disco Ball and Yell:
âI have no idea what is in the constitution - and I donât care whatâs in the constitution!â or even more basic âYouâre Not The Boss Of Me!â
But alas, fatNixon, we are.
Donald - not merely the Best Negotiator in the World but also the Best Constitutional Scholar.
In the WH it probably was - but if it was it was hidden away. No social media and no intentionally sharing the mania with the public.
What in Hades is going on today? Must be something major happening behind the scenes.
I smell a big stack of indictments.
Itâs not a typo. Appointing a Special Councel would be unconstitutional.
A Special Counsel, howeverâŚ
Heâs like a f-%king mosquito in the room at night while youâre trying to sleep.
Iâm sure the Republican congressional leadership will have a strong response to this morningâs tweetstorm in 3âŚ2âŚ
Feels like weâre rapidly accelerating toward an Infrastructure Week that is infrastructurier than any before it, eh?
Trump is just so incredibly fecal.
He is tossing meth crystal catnip to his militia
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that population that is convinced that:
all constitutional amendments after the Tenth Amendment
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are UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
This isnât goimg to end pretty, is it?
By Steve Vladeck, Benjamin Wittes
Itâs wordy but worth the time, and the answer is no, trumpp cannot refuse a subpoena.
The bottom line, in our view, is that Mueller would probably prevail if and when a battle over a grand-jury subpoena makes its way into court. But it is not a sure thing, and the president has plausible arguments available to him that a court would have to work through before enforcing a subpoena for his testimony.
Concludes with:
The president, of course, could refuse to comply with a subpoena even after it has been upheld by the Supreme Court. As the story goes, President Nixon seriously contemplated such a course after the Supreme Court ruled against him in July 1974. In such a circumstance, the ultimate question would not be up to the courts, but rather to Congress. Nixon eventually concluded that defying the Supreme Court would only hasten his impeachment. Whatever else may be said about the law and politics of such a confrontation, we hope we never have to find out whether the current president would see things the same way.
I tracked and watched pretty much all of it in âreal timeâ, and yeah, it was pretty crazy.
WH activity shrunk down over first quarter of 1974 into pulling up the moat bridges & aggravating the alligators, at it reduced to survival core mode It was widely understood even just from regular daily newspaper reporting that Nixon had gone bananas in the WH, binge drinking himself to sleep; he was a mess - that weâve learned just recently he was beating his wife comes as no surprise.
The differences:
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unlike with the b.s. goings on of Nunes and Grassley and on RWN media particularly FOX , the GOP then was increasingly willing to be identified as part of the pursuit team. It wasnât whole-hearted - there was a lot of double-dealing going on regularly, like the way in which Fred Thompson was given the conduct of set-up cross-examinations to placate the Republican caucus, when in reality he was working to isolate the stench to Nixon and at the same launch is own political career. But there were just enough headline and key Congressional GOPers in the spotlight to make it all seem fully bipartisan, when it certainly was not that at all. Once SCOTUS ruled that Nixon had to give up the fruits of his Oval Office taping, the die was cast, but even then SS Nixon was abandoning ship in summer reruns time, not in the full glare of 24/7 cable newsertainment, the internet and social media.
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No armed organized mob movement of die hards kept right on dismantling the nationâs institutions and wrecking its remaining infrastructure, economy and international reputation (such as it was what with Vietnam) as the SS Nixon broke up.
Why waste the pixels on this crap?
Everyday, everyday,
How exactly is Muellerâs simple existence as Special Counsel (spell it right Mr. President) unconstitutional?
Is that another awesome legal opinion from the Firm of Ghouliani, Kushner, and Hannity?