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I feel like Clarke felt differently about people telling law enforcement to "kiss [their] ass" when he was a sheriff...

ZekeB wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 16, 2020 8:28 pm

fierceredpanda wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 16, 2020 2:55 pm

Dammit! I live in Brown County. I should have gone to that supervisors meeting. Guess I'll have to ask my friend on the county board how it went.

You up near what use to be Olden Glen, per chance?

It's his security blanket.

"Never mind that shit! Here comes Mongo!"

So the NYT and other outlets are reporting that the FBI has now paid a visit to looney Robert Hyde! SDNY has had these text messages since the fall! Does the FBI now only investigate potentially dangerous people if their texts are made public? WTF!! Bill Barr's Justice Department, ladies and gentle...

Dammit! I live in Brown County. I should have gone to that supervisors meeting. Guess I'll have to ask my friend on the county board how it went.

So, anyone up for an over/under thread regarding how many days it will take for the Senate to acquit Trump? My take is they will dispose of this little inconvenience in fairly short order. After all, they have a long list of unqualified right wing nut jobs to appoint to federal courts. We can't sto...

And why, in the name of all that is good on this planet, did he not only document his own crimes but offer them for evidence in trump's impeachment? That's the easy question. It's the old "if I'm going down for this, I'm not going down by myself" play. Remember Rudy's weird aside about how he has "...

Thanks. I am asking either really good, or really stupid questions here. I'm not sure which. But wouldn't it ordinarily be the last thing an attorney would want their client to do? And given his country of origin and the people implicated, wouldn't it ordinarily be, err, bad for his health potentia...

Judge again expresses his concern that the arrest occurred yesterday when allegations went back to last summer and "was chock full of events which occurred" in June through August 2019. "That's created enormous disruption, and unless the parties cooperate I really don't know when this case will be ...

Uh, Rachel: You do know you're posing and smiling with a man who is indicted for multiple federal crimes, right?

Gross. I don't care if he has dirt on Rudy and Trump. It's gross.

Barr isn't going to let anyone touch Flynn's son.

I thought my opinion of Collins could sink no lower.

The House just got access to those documents, you walking, talking waste of oxygen that thinking people could be using to fucking do their jobs.

Jesus.

Did anyone actually not see through him from the beginning? Go back and read some of the old posts here on this thread, on the Michael Cohen threads, and the Stormy Daniels thread, among others. Sterngard, MikeD, and I will be right here when you get back. All I will say is that our collective skep...

To my surprise and relief, I'm quite happy with (mostly) all of the manager designations. Schiff and Nadler are obvious, and Schiff has to be the lead manager. Schiff is telegenic and a good communicator. Nadler's strengths, it's fair to say, lie elsewhere. Lofgren is a great choice. She has more ex...

Remember when Avenatti was our only hope to stop Donald Trump? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Such tremendous bullshit. He pleaded guilty over two years ago, still hasn't been sentenced, and now he wants to withdraw his plea because Sidney Powell is a crazy person. Meanwhile, I have had literally dozens of clients plead, get sentenced, and finish their time while Flynn has been convicted but...

Prediction: They're gonna call the whistleblower to testify, and then use his refusal to do so (on the basis that his identity is protected by federal law) as a justification to say Trump didn't obstruct the inquiry and Bolton doesn't have to testify. "We can't call the whistleblower because of whis...

Jeffrey wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 14, 2020 12:00 pm

fierceredpanda wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 14, 2020 9:07 am

6) Bolton doesn't testify, but gets to look to all the world like he really wanted to.

Probably a dumb question but can Bolton just show up and testify without a subpoena?

No, the Senate won't hear testimony from anyone they don't summon to give said testimony.

Do it. Do it. Do it. Do. It. CNN: Giuliani has lobbied to join White House impeachment defense Washington (CNN)Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, whose dealings with Ukraine are a key facet of the impeachment case, has been lobbying the President to join his legal team on the Senate fl...

I'll add that an epigraph of the entire Trump Administration can be summed up in two words: "Or what?" The law says the President shall do this, or shall not do that. The response of this Administration - especially since Bill Barr took over the DOJ - has been to look at what shall and shall not be ...

Honestly, I'm not sure how you can actually square the legal doctrine of executive privilege existing at all with the concept of impeachment. Is that really an issue? Executive privilege is merely an acknowledgement that any executive needs room to breathe without being micro-managed and harassed b...

I think the point is that if CIA, NSA, or whoever had gathered information that the intelligence community regarded as a credible and imminent threat to embassies, there is probably (almost certainly post-Benghazi, one would imagine) a protocol for automatically advising the State Department directl...

I’ve heard he’s a good defense lawyer. We’ll see what happens. His lawyer is also desperate to get his client off the hook. The best way to get a prosecutor to offer your client immunity is to get them excited about testimony the client can give. You need your client to be Sammy "The Bull" Gravano....