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Orin Kerr

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3 years

The most important dividing line in American politics these days, it seems to me, isn't between liberal and conservative. It's between those who saw the con early and those who still don't see it.

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Imagine if the Starr Report had been provided only to President Clinton's Attorney General, Janet Reno, who then read it privately and published a 4-page letter based on her private reading stating her conclusion that President Clinton committed no crimes.

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Not sure which is more remarkable: That the President sees the pardon power as a way to reward his friends, or that the President has so many friends who need pardons.

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One lesson of the last four years is how many people absolutely love having a President who is an extraordinarily horrible human being.

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Not sure if this is an interview or a @ProjectLincoln ad.

Axios

@axios

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. @jonathanvswan : “Oh, you’re doing death as a proportion of cases. I’m talking about death as a proportion of population. That’s where the U.S. is really bad. Much worse than South Korea, Germany, etc.” @realdonaldtrump : “You can’t do that.” Swan: “Why can’t I do that?”

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Andrew McCarthy is on Fox News, saying that when he was a federal prosecutor, he prosecuted terrorists for the same thing the protesters are doing at the Capitol Building. "The President incited this."

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Steven Calabresi.

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I recognize the damage done by Trump’s crazier and crazier election conspiracy theories, but I also appreciate the clarity he is providing to all, on his way out the door, about who he is.

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The President's campaign manager, his longtime personal political advisor, and his personal lawyer have all been actually charged and convicted of serious felony crimes, but he wants you to think Joe Biden is a criminal because, well, his son had emails, and like, you know, email

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Screen-shotted this to see how many likes and retweets it gets in the next 48 hours.

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Have to admit, I didn’t see “Rick Perry made me do it” coming.

Scoop: Trump pins Ukraine call on Energy Secretary Rick Perry

Trump told House Republicans that Perry convinced him to phone Zelensky.

www.axios.com

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We’re in a weird world where Covid numbers are going through the roof and the President no longer has a reason to pretend that he cares.

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Trying to prevent the winner of an election from taking office is not okay just because you expect your efforts to fail.

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Then maybe you should stop trying to do that. Just a thought.

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AG Barr is Trump's new fixer. No need to take the political hit to pardon your friend when your fixer can do the dirty work for you. Sad day for DOJ.

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6 years

Loosely translated, "Manafort's trial starts this week."

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

6 years

To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!

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Having posted about my friend's case a few times, I feel some obligation to provide an update I hoped to never have to make: My friend didn't make it. He died yesterday, at the age of 45.

Orin Kerr

@OrinKerr

4 years

Any ideas? A friend is on a ventilator w/C19 at a hospital in Neptune, NJ. Not doing well. Doc ordered both remdesivir & plasma 2 days ago, but can't source either. Any ideas for how either could be obtained, quickly? If so, pls email orin [at] . Thanks.

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It's easier to understand Trump's view on the Kurds if you assume he genuinely cannot understand why you would ever want to help anyone else unless that person has something you need right now.

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If I understand the President correctly, hoax polls are suggesting he'll lose a hoax election in which the big issues were a hoax disease following his hoax impeachment. The election is in 28 days. Please vote.

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I’m not sure I’ll ever understand why so many Americans are fine with a U.S. President who acts so beholden to Russia.

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At least some GOP House members would "like to step out" against Trump "but they just can't because of their base at the moment." Translated, they CAN step out against Trump but care more about themselves and staying in office than doing the right thing.

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4 years

Missing the old days when we needed to know who the President will nominate before we knew whether the nominee would be confirmed.

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Lawyers are giggling at Trump's motion, and how poorly it was done, but note that it is receiving respectful coverage from the press. Reporters are writing up Trump's allegations and requests because they appeared in a legal filing; what Trump alleged and what he wants is "news."

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I would have thought the American people would never stand for a President who proclaims that his opponents should go to jail and whines that his friends should get out of it. Instead, about half of America seems to think that's totally awesome. It's incredibly disturbing.

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Those who see the madness but have chosen not to speak up make me wonder what else they could see and choose not to speak up against.

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Loosely translated: "Internal polls show my news conferences are killing me for November, so I will pretend it's the press's fault as a way to back out of them."

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

What is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, & then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately. They get record ratings, & the American people get nothing but Fake News. Not worth the time & effort!

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Still annoyed by my loss in the 1988 high school class President election. Thinking of filing a cert petition.

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I'm beginning to think Rudy isn't the information security expert he claims to be.

NBC Investigations

@NBCInvestigates

5 years

Rudy Giuliani butt-dialed an NBC News reporter — twice — leaving long voicemail messages in which he's heard discussing Joe Biden, business in Bahrain and his need for cash. By @richschapiro

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My dad.

US Holocaust Museum

@HolocaustMuseum

3 years

"It was just plain animal instinct and a lot of luck. As simple as that.” Aronek Kierszkowski (later Arnold Kerr) was born to Jewish parents in Poland in 1928. The second of four boys, he was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust.

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Former President advocates personal responsibility, hard work, honesty, and respect for others. Current President will no doubt interpret this as a vicious attack on him.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

4 years

Barack Obama during #GraduateTogether : "Doing what feels good, what's convenient, what's easy, that's how little kids think. Unfortunately, a lot of so-called grown-ups including some with fancy titles & important jobs still think that way. Which is why things are so screwed up."

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You can’t impeach Nixon for trying to uncover corruption at the DNC’s Watergate offices. It was Nixon’s duty to fight corruption, and it’s not his fault that his political opponents were so corrupt that it required him to send burglars over to break in.

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Some are saying that Duncan Hunter, who will be pleading guilty to criminal charges tomorrow, was the first Congressman to endorse Trump. Not so. The first was Chris Collins, who pled guilty to his criminal charges two months ago. Hunter was second.

Ex-Rep. Chris Collins Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading Charges (Published 2019)

The four-term Republican, who resigned from the House on Monday, shared inside information about a company with his son.

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

I assume the President will start calling it STUPID-19 to insult the virus into containment.

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3 years

Not sure how a political party that largely supported that lawsuit -- not everyone, of course, but large support, with little outspoken opposition -- walks that back.

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If Watergate happened today, the tape would come out with Nixon discussing the coverup, Nixon would say there was no coverup, and the GOP would acquit Nixon because there was zero evidence of a coverup.

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The most remarkable part of the Ukraine story is that it has Trump trying to collude with a foreign power to influence his next election shortly after the Special Counsel wrapped up its investigation of whether Trump colluded with a foreign power to influence the last one.

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4 years

Historians will struggle to understand how by mid-2020 so many millions of Americans still thought Trump was perfectly fine.

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I know Trump will get to the bottom of voter fraud claims because he promised he sent a team of investigators to Hawaii to expose the truth of Obama's birth certificate so he has a lot of experience with this sort of thing.

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The weird thing about Trump is that his con seems so obvious that you're left wondering how anyone could be tricked by it.

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(1) President: Let's shoot looters. (2) Twitter: That violates our terms of service, so we'll put up a warning. It's fascinating to see who thinks the big story is (1) and who thinks the big story is (2).

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5 years

I agree, and I would make Jay's point more broadly. The shocking part is not what Trump does and who he is. It's who he has always been. Rather, the shocking part is how many people gave up their principles to be fine with that.

Jay Nordlinger

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5 years

I'm used to Trump's tenderness toward murderous dictators (Putin, MBS, Erdogan, Kim, et al.). I am not yet used to others' acceptance of it, or indifference to it. That will take some more time. And some of these guys used to be wild about Reagan. Unfathomable.

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It seems too-often overlooked, in the 1/6 story, that Trump wasn't acting in his institutional role as President. His conduct was always about using his Presidential powers and his political influence to help him solely in his capacity as a political *candidate.*

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6 years

This is how you normalize Presidential corruption: Slowly put it more and more in the open until everyone just shrugs that *of course* the President wants to use law enforcement for partisan ends.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

6 years

Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff......

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Trump appears to be threatening civil war if Congress follows the U.S. Constitution's provision on removing a President from office. Unreal.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

5 years

....If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” Pastor Robert Jeffress, @FoxNews

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4 years

I don't know if Trump's impeachment will help or hurt him in 2020. But I don't care, either. Trump's actions were at the core of the kind of conduct the Framers drafted the impeachment power to address. It was good for the Constitution for the House majority to act accordingly.

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You can't impeach and remove a President while he's in office because it's up to the people to vote him out of office, and you can't impeach and remove a President after he's voted out of office because the impeachment power is only for Presidents in office.

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It's like a version of Man in the High Castle where Nixon responded to Watergate by saying *of course* we broke into DNC headquarters we needed the dirt and everyone was like yay he's a fighter.

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Fascinating interview of @maggieNYT on @andersoncooper a few minutes ago, to the effect that Trump is just testing to see what he can get away with. There's no grand strategy. It's just a survival instinct, step by step, seeing what will happen if he pushes the envelope.

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Loosely translated, “Heard from Whitaker, and yikes, Mueller figured it out.”

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

5 years

....care how many lives the ruin. These are Angry People, including the highly conflicted Bob Mueller, who worked for Obama for 8 years. They won’t even look at all of the bad acts and crimes on the other side. A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY!

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This is is my dad, a Holocaust survivor, telling one story of lucky survival in the concentration camps. The Germans held 516 boys at one camp. They sent 10 cattle cars, designated to fit 50 people each, to Auschwitz --to be killed. They picked 16 boys to stay. My dad was one.

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4 years

I wonder how many foreign agents hang out at the Trump hotel bar.

Matthew Miller

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4 years

“It was like a breeding ground at the Trump hotel.” - Parnas explaining how guys like him would rub elbows with GOP congressmen and people like Robert Hyde.

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Putting aside the legal question of what the rules should be going forward, imagine trying to get a judge to throw out 100,000 ballots *already cast* by people who were just following the announced legal rules for voting. And asking for that 3 days before the voting will end.

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Texas Republicans have asked a federal judge to throw out 100,000 ballots in Harris County cast through curbside voting. They drew Judge Andrew Hanen, one of the most notoriously partisan Republican judges in the entire federal judiciary. This is alarming.

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In other administrations, reason for impeachment; in this Administration, most Friday nights.

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The President who dodged the draft with a bogus medical excuse putting an officer's rank in square quotes is really just something to behold. I know we're numb to Trump's endless stream of insults, but, like, wow.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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Fake News @CNN & MSDNC keep talking about “Lt. Col.” Vindman as though I should think only how wonderful he was. Actually, I don’t know him, never spoke to him, or met him (I don’t believe!) but, he was very insubordinate, reported contents of my “perfect” calls incorrectly, &...

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BREAKING: Vice-President Mike Pence authors column demanding that the President "Must Resign or Be Impeached" for his "repeated lies to the American people." The people may wish to move on, but "the Constitution does not permit such a national denial."

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Based on what I know so far, I’m really unlikely to vote in the 2020 election for Hunter Biden.

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Twitter seems divided between those who don't know what is in the Mueller report because it hasn't been released and those who know what's in it because it hasn't been released.

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I don’t have a particular view of whether Flynn should have been prosecuted. But it seems worth pointing out that Flynn knew he was committing a crime, he admitted to his crime, and the Trump DOJ gave Flynn special treatment because Flynn is an important supporter of Trump.

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When the Mueller report comes out, just remember: The people selling something will have strong and instant reactions. Those who actually read the report will take longer.

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Historians will not struggle to explain why widespread public recognition of racism happened to coincide with the Trump Presidency.

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Loosely translated, “I think I’m going to be a one-term President.”

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!

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Mulvaney: “When a 4-year-old who hasn’t napped gets upset by a toy boat, moving the boat out of sight is not an unreasonable thing to do.”

Meet the Press

@MeetThePress

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WATCH: Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney says moving a Navy ship out of sight from the president was "not an unreasonable thing to do." #MTP #IfItsSunday Mulvaney: "The president's feelings towards the former senator are well known."

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Seems worth noting that "his door kicked down by the feds in a pre-dawn raid" generally means a search was executed pursuant to a Rule 41 warrant signed by a federal judge who found probable cause that a federal crime was committed and evidence of the crime would be found there.

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Manafort was convicted by a jury of cheating the American people by hiding that he owed millions of dollars of taxes that he never paid. For what amounts to stealing millions of dollars, Trump's reaction was "such respect for a brave man!" Think about that

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If I get the MAGA-world case against critical race theory, it's that America is a land of equality and couldn't be systematically biased, and yet also that all major American institutions (media, big tech, deep state, universities) are systematically biased against MAGA-world.

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I would guess that DOJ will seek review of Cannon's order, especially targeting the injunction. If a suspect can go into court and get an order to stop the criminal investigation, it's hard for the executive branch to function. It's a fundamental matter of separation of powers.

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Trump attacks his own Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General -- the people he hand-picked to lead federal law enforcement -- while praising the criminals that juries have convicted for bravely going to trial and not being a "rat." Wonder how this will end.

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I don't know how Trump can fire the Attorney General amidst the national security crisis of the caravan coming our way.

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One conclusion I've reached from this debate is that Mike Pence won't be the GOP nominee in 2024.

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Impeachment is so partisan that the key witness and his lawyer are both Republicans.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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Never Trumper Republican John Bellinger, represents Never Trumper Diplomat Bill Taylor (who I don’t know), in testimony before Congress! Do Nothing Democrats allow Republicans Zero Representation, Zero due process, and Zero Transparency....

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1974: What did the President know, and when did he know it? 2019: If the President is caught red-handed, can he just make up some conspiracy theories about the other side and get away with it?

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Totally normal that the Attorney General, FBI Director, and White House Counsel would threaten to resign or offer their resignation in the 1st year of a Presidency over three different topics.

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Does he know tax fraud is illegal

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

5 years

....you would get it by building, or even buying. You always wanted to show losses for tax purposes....almost all real estate developers did - and often re-negotiate with banks, it was sport. Additionally, the very old information put out is a highly inaccurate Fake News hit job!

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WaPo: The President has lost all touch with reality and surrounds himself with bottom feeders who play to that. January 20th can’t come soon enough.

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Quick review of MAGA Twitter suggests that Hillary should have been sent to jail first; the entire Biden Crime Family sent second; and the indictment of Donald Trump is illegitimate because only a 3rd World Banana Republic would permit a prosecution of its political opponents.

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It's interesting to note, as we wait to see who will have the electoral votes to win the Presidency, that pretty much everyone understands that of course Biden will win the popular vote. We no longer even think about whether those two will match. Legally correct, but so weird.

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1/ Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, also known as Yom HaShoah. In honor of this day, I'd like to tell you about the photograph below. It was taken in 1938, in a small town in Suwalki, Poland. Everyone in the photo is a Jew. See the boy front row center? That's my dad.

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Old: Checks and balances. New: If you vote against the President, your head will be on a pike.

Matt McDermott

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CBS News reports that GOP Senators have been warned by Trump team: "Vote against the president, and your head will be on a pike." How is this acceptable?

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President's lawyers think it was unfair for Mueller to ask questions of the President without first informing the President that he should tell the truth because Mueller might have evidence to show false answers were false.

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The President seems particularly confident and relaxed this morning.

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"I refuse to cooperate, and your process is illegitimate without my cooperation" is the recurring process objection of the Trump era.

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How bad is grade inflation at Harvard College? If trends keep up, an average student in ten years will have a perfect 4.0. (h/t @SoCalTaxProf )

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Citizens United ruled that corporations have the same free speech rights as anyone else. This is Twitter's free speech, and Big Government can't trample on their constitutional rights.** **Note that this used to be a conservative position, like, in 2016.

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I'm wary of Lev Parnas, but I believe in the text messages pulled from his phone. And what they reveal is pretty bananas -- this round, that Nunes and his aide were in on it.

Democrats Release More Material From Lev Parnas on Ukraine Campaign (Published 2020)

Texts raised more questions about information suggesting that the United States ambassador to Ukraine was under surveillance.

www.nytimes.com

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If you were wondering what it would take to get the GOP Senate to investigate claims of Executive Branch abuse, in the 4th year of the Trump Administration, you now have your answer.

The Hill

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#BREAKING : Sen. Mitch McConnell: "Senate Republicans are taking steps to issue new subpoenas to a wide variety of Obama Administration officials."

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From my favorite cartoonist, @PaulNoth .

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If I read MAGA twitter correctly, a common move is to pick individual lines in the 98-page document, present them as the whole thing, and then say it's an outrage that the one thing is now being treated as a crime.

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George Will pulling no punches.

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Ok, *now* there’s a constitutional crisis. (Just waiting for the right time to say that.)

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1/ No, firing Comey isn't a "constitutional crisis." A Prez can fire the FBI Director: It's how the system works.

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Former Secy. William Cohen relays a convo of Trump in the White House, as told to him by a senior official: Adviser: Mr. President, you can’t do that. DJT: Why not? Adviser: It’s illegal. DJT: So what? Adviser: You could be prosecuted. DJT: By whom?

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@OrinKerr

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Loosely translated, "The handful of staff left in the building tells me that if I read this it will keep the 25th Amendment away, so let's give it a try."

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

3 years

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@OrinKerr

5 years

Loosely translated, “McGahn can hurt me more than Mueller.”

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

5 years

I was NOT going to fire Bob Mueller, and did not fire Bob Mueller. In fact, he was allowed to finish his Report with unprecedented help from the Trump Administration. Actually, lawyer Don McGahn had a much better chance of being fired than Mueller. Never a big fan!

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Orin Kerr

@OrinKerr

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"Just to be precise, I represent Trump in his personal capacity, not as President of the United States." Note to reader: People in their personal capacities do not exercise the foreign policy of the United States.

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Maybe not wise to criticize the Justices who will rule on whether the self-pardon you attempt can keep you out of jail. But on second thought, have at it.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

3 years

The U.S. Supreme Court has been totally incompetent and weak on the massive Election Fraud that took place in the 2020 Presidential Election. We have absolute PROOF, but they don’t want to see it - No “standing”, they say. If we have corrupt elections, we have no country!

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Orin Kerr

@OrinKerr

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Noteworthy that the federal circuit court opinions rejecting 2020 election lawsuit claims were written by judges Stephanos Bibas (CA3 Trump appointee), William Pryor (CA11 Trump SCOTUS lister), and now Michael Scudder (CA7 Trump appointee).

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Orin Kerr

@OrinKerr

2 years

I take the bold stance of encouraging the release of the documents . . . that I have in my hand and have declined to show you.

Meridith McGraw

@meridithmcgraw

2 years

Just in: former President Trump says on Truth Social he is not opposing the release of the documents, calls for “immediate release”

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@OrinKerr

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Trump tried to use his official position to get a foreign government to do him a favor that would benefit him personally. In any other Administration, a major scandal. In this one, Tuesday.

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@OrinKerr

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With the President's condition deteriorating, they decided Trump would go to Walter Reed now in part because he was still well enough for the photo op walking over to the helicopter, WaPo reports.

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@OrinKerr

4 years

Imagine America in November if Trump is named the winner in a tight election after potentially millions of U.S. citizens had their votes not counted because of Trump's open efforts to suppress mail-in voting.

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Orin Kerr

@OrinKerr

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Trump famously announced "I alone can fix it," but actually I don't think he can.

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