But, would it surprise you if he did?
Or, if he claimed it was for his bat mitzvah, for that matter.
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It’s the B-team, so fickleness is to be expected.
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Probably the Republicans complained they had to work on Sunday because Saturday they were off.
How could they get on the morning Sunday news shows if they had to work too? Others pray but Republican politicians have to spin every Sunday, ya know.
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Schoen converted to Roman Catholicism Monday. Get him a rosary.
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If Schumer had turned down Schoen’s request, he could have been labeled a (1) antisemitic (2) self-hating Jew.
Maybe Trump ordered Schoen to rescind his request so that Schumer would not be owed loyalty by Schoen. (It only makes sense if you try to see it through Trump’s eyes, which is a horrifying vantage point, that I can tell you.)
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accommodation
“The Senate will appropriately revisit the matter after the American people finish making in November the decision they’ve already started making today."
-Mitch McConnell, Feb. 23, 2016, The Merrick Garland nomination
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That was my first thought, too.
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Power games.
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So TODAY he decides that although he asked for special accommodation for the trial and had everyone change THEIR schedules, now HE doesn’t need it so let’s just motor through. Oh please.
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I wonder if Dershowitz is going to do a surprise celebrity cameo to argue the First Amendment angle. He could be billed as a “very special guest of the defense team.”
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Well, now we know for SURE that it was always just a ploy.
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Trump wants this thing over ASAP so he can schedule his second rally/insurrection of the year?
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What a bunch of lawyer buttheads. That guy, Schoen, said he was required to observe the Sabbath. I guess God let him off easy.
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Problem for them is, by reneging, they have shown it to be nothing but a stupid ploy.
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New lawyer:
“Wait - who???”
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Just like everything else, they are throwing shit at the wall, looking to see what sticks.
Diversion tactics, because they have nothing else.
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If Schoen was acting in good faith (sic) he would have noticed Schumer two weeks ago that he was super observant. Clear gamesmanship.
When I was in corporate world, only asked for deference on principal religious holidays: Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah day one, and Passover day one.
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whoops, clicked the wrong link. Sorry!
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What, playing the Jewish card didn’t resonate well with the anti-semitic Trumplican base?
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