According to the lawsuit the emoluments clause is meaningless. According to them, there is one check and one check only on the president: impeachment. The idea that impeachment is the only recourse on the executive turns the idea of checks and balances into an existential game of chicken. That isn’t governance. It’s Russian Roulette.
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He could exercise his Article Two privilege and issue an Executive Order to shut down detention centers. Booker and Sanders have said they’d do that if they were elected.
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Hell, I did more work ripping all my CDs to WAV files on my PC than this mofo ever did in his goddamned life, including his time in office.
“Distract and harass”, my well-sculpted behind!
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They will not be forgotten …
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If responding to discovery really “would ‘distract and harass’ the President [sic]” then he could invoke the 25th Amendment and temporarily resign until he is again fit to serve.
“President Trump must exercise judgment in determining whether his financial interests are compatible with the continued exercise of office under the Emoluments Clauses.”
I would have sworn the Constitution granted power over that whole emoluments thing to the Legislative Branch.
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This is ridiculous. You mean Trump shouldn’t have to act within the Constitution? When he says he always has to see if his actions fall within the Enoulments Clause well…HELLO!!! That’s the Constitution. Oh right – that’s the document you only give lip service too and are constantly shredding.
Besides, how many days have you gone golfing?
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…and that certainly wouldn’t be distracting, either…
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I’m confused. I thought Tweeting was, in and of itself, a distraction. So Trump is arguing that it’s possible to be distracted from a distraction? (That’s an abstraction, of course…)
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It’s right there in Article Z of the Constitution: “The President shall Tweet, hold campaign rallies, and call in to his favorite wackjob TV friends.”
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Discovery seems to be like Trump Kryptonite.
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Wouldn’t want to distract from official Constitutional duties …
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I like how this is written to assert that Trump is asking the courts for relief and other legalese. As if Trump himself isn’t just sitting behind his empty desk yelling FIX THIS PROBLEM!!! WHERE IS COHEN WHEN I NEED HIM!
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That amendment about how presidents shall be free from distraction is a humdinger. Which number is that again?
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Yes, it takes the essence of a reasonable argument – that the only way to REMOVE a president while in office is via impeachment – and claims it’s the only remedy for anything shady by the executive branch. It makes a nice catch-22 if you’re willing to suspend all logic. You can’t impeach if you don’t have evidence… And you, uh, can’t gather evidence if you haven’t impeached!
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I predict that it ends about June 16, when the primary is officially over.
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Republicans are. You can expect strongly worded letters from the Dems. accompanied with handwringing.
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Ahhh, yes. The “We can’t come up with a better reason” reason.
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Comply with reasonable Congressional oversight, motherfucker.
I suppose the argument he’ll use against an impeachment inquiry, impeachment hearings, impeachment trial is that they are a distraction from his Constitutional duties and the Congress has other remedies available and that he just doesn’t feel like being impeached or being harassed in that way.
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“Whether intended or not, any information produced through discovery would undoubtedly be publicized and used to distract and harass the President.”
As opposed to your birther nonsense against your predecessor?
What a widdle thin-skinned baby…
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“President Trump must exercise judgment in determining whether his financial interests are compatible with the continued exercise of office under the Emoluments Clauses.”
This is a legal argument against congressional oversight? Really? What if “President” Trump fails to “exercise judgment,” something he does every single effing day? What then? Hmmm?
This is the “our fat beagle will have to exercise judgment in determining how much to eat” argument.
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