Even as President Trump is arguing in his impeachment trial that the House should have taken him to court to enforce its subpoenas, he made new arguments to the Supreme Court Monday that House subpoenas against his accounting firm and bank are illegitimate and beyond the power of the legislative branch.
Keep tryin’. buddy. At some point, that Olive Garden kitchen with pasta all over the floor is going get one strand of spaghetti that might stick.
Not this time, though.
I hope they keep this shit up. At this point there are very few people capable of objectively looking at this mess that aren’t convinced the President did what’s alleged and that he and his team are lying about it. Their strategy is to lie and deflect to the Bidens. While Chief Justice Robert’s sits in his robes and enables the lot of it. Everyone capable of seeing what’s going on sees it. Those that are incapable don’t matter.
I hope they keep it up. Keep lying, projecting and deflecting until they let Trump walk. For folks old enough to remember the Clinton impeachment it fooled very few. It was a partisan affair intended on “overturning the 1996 election” and all of America knew that. The same will out in 2020. Trump will walk but the majority of Americans will know.
As Louis XIV said, “L’etat cest moi.” Louis XV said, “Apres moi, le deluge.” Louis XVI didn’t say anything, after…
One of the side-effects of losing one’s head.
Too bad that’s not an option here.
I am not a lawyer (crosses self) nor a Constitutional scholar, but couldn’t the Dems request a ruling from the chair, i.e. Chief Justice Roberts, on the admissibility of evidence via the calling of witnesses?? I know the Senate could override his judgment, but isn’t trying a good strategy?
The defendant was only trying to adjust his bookie’s collar, and also he was miles away in Hoboken at the time his bookie was strangled.
You want CJ Potted Plant to have an opinion?
It is to laugh. He’s let so much water go under the bridge that any decisions he would make would be roundly shouted down. Ineffective doesn’t begin to describe.
I guess we’ll see how firmly committed to the Trump experiment these justices really are. Because, legally speaking, the preznit’s brief is a steaming plate of poo, and the preznit is inviting Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh to dive in. At least three of them will be begging for seconds.
Indeed I do want him to have an opinion and express it. I would rather laugh than cry. His legacy is on the line, and he knows it.
Shorter brief: U CANT HAZ OVERSIGHT
Hard to talk with your head in a bucket.
Shoulda won the damn House if you wanted to avoid this, like you predicted you would:
Donald J. Trump 
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With all this legal stuff, Trump doesn’t have time to be president, thank [insert deity of choice]!
“Whatever powers Congress holds, it may not deploy them in a way that keeps the President from fulfilling the obligations of his office,” attorneys for the President wrote in a Monday brief. “Unleashing each and every House committee to torment the President with legislative subpoena after legislative subpoena is a recipe for constitutional crisis.”
AKA: “Presidential Harassment!”
And just to reiterate, these subpoenas were to a bank and an accounting firm, entities that are not Donald J. Trump and are not controlled by Donald J. Trump and that are not part of the administration of Donald J. Trump
But if he has the same opinion as Barr and the other Opus Dei idjits, he doesn’t care about his legacy because he’ll be dead (famously stated by Barr).
“Whatever powers Congress holds, it may not deploy them in a way that keeps the President from fulfilling the obligations of his office,” …
Citations please.
Citations!!! We don’t need any stinkin’ citations!!!
Barr is already dead, as far as I am concerned. He too should be impeached, as a corpse.
If I’m not mistaken, this represents a big change in strategy. While almost every action ever taken by DT has been explained with a series of ever changing reasons in order to justify the BS decision behind it, this is the first time I know of where they’re putting out multiple excuses simultaneously in different official venues (not counting rallies, where ralliers will accept any and all contradicting explanations).