He sued to block everything. He has not obtained any kind of injunction, however. It’s entirely unclear to me what’s so special about these 50 pages (not 50 documents) and who’s holding them up.
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I’ve got you, babe
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Off Topic, but important IMO:
From Mother Jones
The Owners of the Democrats’ Big Data Firm Have a Side Gig: Working to Elect Far-Right Republicans
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I don’t get that vibe, the Democrats are organized, focused as in not in “disarray” it’s like they have a results driven agenda.
I know, it feels weird. Let’s see how long they can maintain it.
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We believe in freedom of religion, as long as it’s ours.
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Good point.
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I definitely take the source into consideration. Lofgren doesn’t strike me as someone who wants to slow walk the process, as opposed to congress critters like Richard Neal.
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And if you believe that…seriously the Committee is not intending to do anything other than issue a milquetoast report sometime next year absolving Republicans of all transgressions. I hope I’m wrong.
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It has to be Democrats holding it up, right?
Unclear. The Presidential Records Act gives TFG extra time to contest the National Archives from releasing his admin’s docs even if TCG decides they shouldn’t be privileged. So it’s possible these pages are still within that extra time and therefore aren’t subject to release quite yet. But the reporting on this is so bad that there’s no way to tell who’s keeping them back and on what basis.
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One theory would be that the committee has just obtained verbal testimony under oath from cooperating witnesses that makes the docs irrelevant, and they’re just calling it a delay to avoid getting into the details of why they’re not needed.
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Tell me you have all the evidence you need without tell me you have all the evidence you need.
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I take the committee at its word. They’re plowing forward without obtaining these 50 pages because they don’t want to slow down on everything else they’re doing. That’s consistent with what we’ve seen from them in recent weeks – getting stuff done.
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Sort of OT, but I have to wonder how many of the “angry” and “outraged” people showing up at public hearings and threatening election workers et al. are essentially Facebook junkies? It seems likely to me that a high percentage of these people showing up and screaming at public officials are completely driven by FB-induced anger. If they weren’t glued to posts telling them how awful everything is and how their whole world is being cut from under them, how many of them would still be showing up to protest?
Obviously toxic masculinity isn’t a new concept (though there seem to be a fair few MTGs out there joining in the rage party without the testosterone), but as we’ve been seeing in the latest reporting, FB has been helping to push people toward extremism the world over. It’s a little unfortunate that we can’t run the experiment (ethically and temporally) to see if these people still showed up to rage at election workers and elected officials if they hadn’t been exposed to a constant injection of FB posts.
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Frankly, they should get every document they request, and if the loser sues, they should ignore his lawsuits just like trump et al ignored every demand Congress made on the executive branch when that vile traitor occupied the Oval Office.
You can’t possibly put too much pressure on trump, you can’t possibly annoy and harass him too much, hell, Democrats should be broadcasting President Obama’s White House Correspondents Dinner put down endlessly, park a truck outside that cesspool of a resort and blast it over a loudspeaker and play it on a teevee screen, ya know.
Make that traitor see red til he blows.
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Approximately all of them. “Critical Race Theory” makes middle-aged and elderly white people angry, so Facebook’s algorithm obviously pushes it on them.
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WTF? Biden has declined to assert Executive Privilege. Therefore they are by definition not covered by Executive Privilege. What the hell are they doing? Just get the damned documents, the National Archives are ready to give you! You don’t actually have to do anything with them if they’re not useful, but get them and moot any even potential Executive Privilege claim or any delay that a court might impose while it considers that issue. Jesus, these people are amateurs.
Even if they’re plowing forward, why wouldn’t they just let the process continue on those documents? It wouldn’t have to slow anything else down and it does cost Trump something to fight it. Something smells fishy, like they already got what they needed in those docs. But maybe I’m overthinking it.
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I am entirely in favor of the basic course of action you’re advocating for, that is, trying to get our Beloved Orange Personality DIsorder/Diaper Stain to stroke out. I advocate for it myself using means that do not violate the letter or spirit of the law, and there are enough of those ways available to achieve the goal, I believe. Your own suggestion about the Correspondents’ Dinner being among the best I’ve heard.
As for the documents… we’ll be fine. The House will get them, eventually, but they can and should keep their proverbial foot on the gas, meanwhile. It’s not as if this was a subtle crime, and absent one single, obscure, piece of evidence we can’t figure out who did it.
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