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That's what I thought Nicholas after this..
“It has been an honor to have spent the last year defending him, and we know he will be vindicated in his battle against the Biden Administration’s partisan weaponization of the American justice system,” the attorneys said..
Hallam, Rick, the President is also CinC, and in theory at leastthe Chief Law Officer, and cannot be prosecuted whilst in office….. in other words, King Emperor or whatever. He can dismiss anyone he sees as a threat. Add a compliant congress……...Comment
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This could be catastrophic.
Trump's hand-picked judge, who totally embarrassed herself by appointing the Special Master, is assigned to the case.
If she has an ounce of integrity, she will recuse herself. If not, she will likely do Trump's bidding, gum up the works and ensure that the trial doesn't start until after Jan. 20, 2025.I was born on a wooden boat that I built myself.
Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.Comment
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Why did Trump keep the stuff? The talkers froth. Their journalism an inch wide and an inch deep.
For funny money. If not cash, then for Kompromat. "Listen, I need you to do something for us . . . "
If you can't get at X -- say, Zelensky -- then you get at someone close to X.
By that avenue, in a pinch, facing prison, F the USA, you can wind up in your own dacha in Abkhazia, formerly Republic of Georgia, brutally and illegally invaded by Russia, their statehood recognized by Nicaragua and Venezuela, the rest of the world says GTFOOH -- never.
Very beautiful. Palm trees, beaches, neo-classical architecture . . . place you oughta be, Jed. Russian? Feature not a bug.
Why did Trump do it? For funny money. For what? Political asylum in a dacha on the Black Sea. But I repeat myself.Do not speak of "our institutions" unless you make them yours by acting on their behalf.
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny (2017)Comment
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#2206..
The fix is in. Hey Osborne, take note…….Comment
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[QUOTE=Rich Jones;6865561]This could be catastrophic.
Trump's hand-picked judge, who totally embarrassed herself by appointing the Special Master, is assigned to the case.
If she has an ounce of integrity, she will recuse herself. If not, she will likely do Trump's bidding, gum up the works and ensure that the trial doesn't start until after Jan. 20, 2025
This was just addressed on Meidas Touch (YouTube), she will have to recuse herself for her past interference regarding Trump. If she does not, DOJ will appeal to the 11th Circuit which had ruled against her the last time. No worries about Cannon.Comment
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But the position is not that of a dictatorship. What you seem to be saying is once elected he/she can act as a dictator. I’m sure that is not the case but due to my unfamiliarity with your system I’m unsure of the checks and balances that operate while a person holds the office of POTUS. When the POTUS becomes a real and present threat to national security what legal options are exist to address the issues that might have urgency attached?Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci.
If war is the answer........... it must be a profoundly stupid question.
"Freighters on the nod on the surface of the bay, One of these days we're going to sail away"
Bruce CockburnComment
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Doesn't matter. Either the security services let him take out info that actually matters or they only let him take stuff that doesn't. If the former then that's incompetence. If the latter then they'll have egg all over their faces for allowing it all to get to indictment. Either way, it's an indictment of the way the US handles sensitive info and has to be hugely embarrassing.Rick
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Reading the bill of indictment, I notice that it is filed — as it should be, given Mar-A-Lago's location — in the West Palm Beach (WBP) division of the Southern District of Florida. So the trial will be held, barring a change in venue, at the West Palm Beach Federal Courthouse. Question is, though: is the jury pool drawn only from Palm Beach Country, the geographic area served by the West Palm Beach division? Or is the jury pool drawn from the entire area served by the Southern District of Florida?
That changes the jury pool maths. Palm Beach is wealthy and white. Believe it's got more than a few jews in the population, too. As far as voting patterns go, here are the numbers:
383,090 voters registered as Democratic Party
288,554 voters registered as Republican Party
23,043 voters registered as other/minor party
292,312 voters registered with no party affiliation (independent)
986,999 total registered voters
[Broward County (Fort Lauderdale Division of the Southern District of Florida) is pretty solidly blue]
Here's a precinct-level map for Palm Beach County showing how each precinct voted in the 2020 presidential election, courtesy of the Palm Beach Post at
palm-beach-2020-election results.jpgYou would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound. — P.G. Wodehouse (Carry On, Jeeves)Comment
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That is not the case. The president is constrained by law, although given how the Congress has abdicated power to the Presidency over the last 50+ years, . . .
Though the Congress can take its power back, if it has the gronicles to do so.
The president can be impeached and removed from office. Difficult, especially in these times.When the POTUS becomes a real and present threat to national security what legal options are exist to address the issues that might have urgency attached?
And there is the 25th Amendment solution: the Vice-President and a majority of the Cabinet may declare the President unfit for office, at which point the Vice-President becomes acting president.
Section 4.
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound. — P.G. Wodehouse (Carry On, Jeeves)Comment
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"They have a lot of stupid people that vote in their primaries. They really do. I'm not really supposed to say that but it's an obvious fact. But when stupid people vote, you know who they nominate? Other stupid people." -- James Carville on the plethora of low-quality GQP candidates in the mid-term election.Comment
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"They have a lot of stupid people that vote in their primaries. They really do. I'm not really supposed to say that but it's an obvious fact. But when stupid people vote, you know who they nominate? Other stupid people." -- James Carville on the plethora of low-quality GQP candidates in the mid-term election.Comment
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#2213, Section 4
See how that went?
Nice theory, as long as the crooks are not in charge, and they were……… all the way up.Comment
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Joy Reid is having a good timeComment
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