House impeachment investigators dropped their subpoena to compel a former National Security Council official to testify before Congress.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1260701
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1260701
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Checkmate?
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Did they think the court was going to say that congress does not have any power of subpoena even during a impeachment inquiry? Confused to why they did this.
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humm … do you suppose that before long, all the cool kids are going to want to testify -
so as to be on the record as NOT being part of the gang that broke the school windows?
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Only fight the fights you need to fight.
Don’t leave anything to chance or delay.
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Agreed - not sure I understand what just happened and how it impacts moving the ball forward.
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Probably don’t need him anymore.
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They got a bigger fish?
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This is the bigger and better news. If the undecideds didn’t read the book, i.e. the transcript, they’ll watch the movie.
The House Intelligence Committee will hold the first of a series of public impeachment hearings next week, Democrats announced on Wednesday, calling three senior State Department officials to testify as they begin laying out their case against President Trump.
In the debut of the sessions expected to be televised live from Capitol Hill, lawmakers plan to question William B. Taylor Jr., the top American envoy in Ukraine, and George P. Kent, a senior American diplomat who oversees policy in the region, during a joint hearing on Wednesday. Then on Friday, they will take public testimony from Marie L. Yovanovitch, the former American ambassador to Ukraine, about her abrupt recall to Washington this spring amid a campaign by Mr. Trump and his inner circle to smear her as disloyal.
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A little birdie in the back of my mind said “Judge Leon”. So I went and checked and yup, he’s the one (Hey TPM, EVERY FUCKING ARTICLE ABOUT A COURT CASE NEEDS TO MENTION THE JUDGE’s NAME). He moved the next hearing to Dec 10. That’s a scheduling fuck-you in this situation.
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Dont need him and dont want delays…Maybe Lev is giving everyone up…
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Since Kupperman and Bolton have the same attorney, does this somehow loosen things up a bit for Johnnie Mustache to appear sooner rather than later?
Just brainfarting to come up with a possible reason for this other than Judge Leon being a loose cannon.
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Come on in, Chuckie, the water is just fine.
Kupperman is going to regret not testifying.
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I hope so. I hope the major networks will give this the airtime it deserves, in spite of the folks that would complain about missing their soaps and Judge Judy.
Funny how they’ll watch a phony Judge show (and there are plenty of them) but won’t watch the real thing when offered them for free.
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By withdrawing the subpoena doesn’t this make Kupperman just another contempt brick(charge) in Trump’s impeachment wall?
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Judge is slow-rolling it, so tell the judge to piss off, we’ve got other witnesses and maybe when all is said and done you’ll be seeing this guy again, this time as defendant.
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“moving the ball forward”
I think they did it to save time, they want to push this process forward as fast as possible. Maybe what he had to offer the inquiry would be more stonewalling like taking the 5th and they didn’t want to waste time with him.
Bets are Trump will call it a “cave.”
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I hope so.
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Front page is white again. Haven’t seen this issue before, but it’s continual today.
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