Judge Smacks Down DOJ Role In Defending Trump From Rape Claim | Talking Points Memo

[darrtown]

@rickjones

And working on healthy eating habits … mostly involving small children.

YEEK!!! that could be interpreted all sort of ways.

[occamscoin]

@stradivarius50t3

Waiting for an appeal to the Circuit Court and a stay in…

Yeah, 61 page decision on a pretty no-brainer issue, he (and/or his clerk) are expecting an appeal.

[theod]

Trump will now demand CIA wet work against the judge, starting with his goldfish.

[mrf]

That’s Justice Handmaiden sir!

[JorgeP]

So, anything the POTUS does is under his official duties by this reasoning,

The same people who claim Pompeo was not acting in an official capacity when he gave an RNC speech while on an overseas trip.

Barr’s only consistent when you see him as an enabler of the abuses of power by a Republican administration.

[stradivarius50t3]

@maximus

The Handmaiden will say there’s no such thing as rape

Let’s get something straight about Amy Covfefe Barrett: she is not a handmaid. She may well be a character from the Republic of Gilead, but she is a wife in that world. The handmaids were oppressed, raped regularly, and forced to bear children whether they wanted to or not. The wives were active participants in the subjugation of the handmaids and in the repression of women’s rights generally.

I understand the shorthand: we can’t really call Amy a wife, because that doesn’t make the connotation at all clear. Maybe we can call her a Gilead Wife or something?

[occamscoin]

@stradivarius50t3

Maybe we can call her a Gilead Wife or something?

Justice R-GILEAD

[liberalsloth]

She’s an Aunt. She’s going to be dolling out the punishments.

[darrtown]

“The DOJ is arguing that since Trump made the comments denying her accusations — considered defamatory by Carroll, and at the heart of her lawsuit — as President, it should not be Trump as a private individual being sued, but Trump as an employee of the federal government. DOJ lawyers compared the situation to a mail deliverer causing a car accident on the job.”
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I will admit the Office of President out ranks a mail carrier. But is there not “equal justice under law” as carved in stone at the SCOTUS??

Or am I hallucinating?

[coimmigrant]

@JorgeP

Barr’s only consistent when you see him as an enabler of the abuses of power

This administration is an endless series of inconsistent arguments, one-off rationalizations, and situational “ethics,” whatever it takes to maintain authoritarian power.

[occamscoin]

@darrtown

But is there not “equal justice under law” as carved in stone at the SCOTUS??

That’s just stonemason artistic license.

[stradivarius50t3]

@mrf

That’s Justice Handmaiden sir!

I will never refer to Amy Covfefe Barrett with that title.

Never!

[ClutchCargo]

She definitely has a bunch of drab green dresses hanging in her closet. But I think she’s now moved up from Wife to whatever position that Lydia holds.

[rogerhead]

Yeah, I bet they twisted their little minds into some real knots trying to come up with a “legitimate” argument to justify this wild-assed assertion.

Need to start with NoBarIsTooLow Barr for disbarment.

[stradivarius50t3]

It’s been decades since I read The Handmaid’s Tale (and current events would make a re-read far too painful).

Was it possible to be both a Wife and an Aunt?

[cervantes]

@stradivarius50t3

Maybe we can call her a Gilead Wife or something?

Too complicated for my small brain. I’ll just call her Barrett.

I could easily manage not calling her Justice Barrett. It’s a title I have refused to apply to several others in her position.

[Rockinrollinbitch]

Don’t be too sure. Barrett once reversed a multi-million dollar settlement, in a case in which a prison guard repeatedly raped an inmate, because rape is outside the [scope of his employment]. Trump’s alleged rape is also outside of the scope of his government employment.

[stradivarius50t3]

I’d rather not refer to the creature at all, and if it were in my power I’d send her back to the black lagoon from whence she emerged.

Maybe I can call her The Justice Who Should Not Have Been Named? Or, The Trumpanzee’s Revenge is possible and pithier. (I hope to live long enough to pith on both their graves.)

[sniffit]

"by authorizing lawsuits that could involve review of the president’s job performance,”

6-3. There’s nothing the GOP would like more than people suing a Dem POTUS into oblivion.

[txlawyer]

@dwward

Trump is broke. . . . Who’s extending this guy more loans on commercial real estate the value of which today is unknowable? No one, that’s who.

You’re thinking like a businessman, not a conman. His marks are the base, not the banks.

The day that he is out of office, he will file the papers to run for the 2024 election, and he will once again be collecting hundreds of millions of dollars in “campaign” cash to pay all the essential lawyers and to keep his properties afloat. Eventually, of course, the whole sham will collapse and the remaining assets will all have to be sold. But that is, in the main, the next generation’s problem.