Report: John Roberts Stops Rand Paul From Revealing Whistleblower’s Identity | Talking Points Memo

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has blocked Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) from using questions at President Trump’s impeachment trial to reveal the name of a person thought to be the Ukraine whistleblower, Politico reports.


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If Rand Paul broke the rules of the trial and the whistleblower act,
he should be expelled as he is not following his oath.

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Additionally, he should face fines and imprisonment too!

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What makes them feel it is okay to do this? Ugh!

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What’s to stop him from simply blurting it out anyways?

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Maybe trump will mean tweet Roberts now…

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At least Roberts stepped up In this instance. It seems he may be the only R that will. It seems we can’t count on Collins, Murkowski, Romney or any of the other assorted weak kneed Senators.

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The potted plant speaks!

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The LAW prevents Paul to go completely nuts or coo-coo!

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“Reckless” is too kind a word for Paul. There are Trump nuts out there who would murder the WB in a heartbeat.

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These guys (the GOP) truly do live in an alternate universe. Laws can be broken with impunity if you’re a suck-up repuglican.

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Rand Paul is so despicable even a hard right wing jurist who destroyed voting rights in this country and opened up our elections to foreign interference and all sorts of dirty money, won’t buy his shtick. What an embarrassment.

I would honestly support his neighbor if he had a Go Fund Me. The man must be a saint.

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Fox News calling Roberts a liberal, deep state, anti-Trumper in 3…2…1…

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Nothing, he could do it in his next floor speech and probably count on his colleagues not to discipline him.

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And a swift kick to the nuts
You could sell tickets for that one

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Is it any wonder Rand Paul’s neighbor tackled him?

It wasn’t for political reasons, either. He is just such a horrible person that the neighbor ran him over before he could think to stop himself.

Of course, Paul advocated he serve extra time for attacking a Senator. Again, it had nothing to do with politics. Just him being a Cheney.

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Time for an encore What would a dick do?

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Deficit reduction fund raiser?

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So in Trump’s world wouldn’t that be “take them out”?

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Because they are the rulemakers? Who is going to censure him or boot him out? His Mom?

Hell, it’d probably help him get re-elected.

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