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Gregg wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 10:08 pm The Senate Committee did not Subpoena it last term because they didn't have the power to do so without Republican votes, the Senate Committees had equal numbers of members from each party (reason #492 why Warnock getting re-elected is important, so the Committees have majorities).

jemcanada2 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 10:50 pm

Gregg wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 10:29 pm

jemcanada2 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 10:21 pm

Don’t forget the cheese curds to make it poutine!

And mayo on hamburgers.

Stop!

I may forget how to make Chili Spaghetti if you keep it up.

Pineapple on pizza?

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 12:51 am

Gregg wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 10:08 pm The Senate Committee did not Subpoena it last term because they didn't have the power to do so without Republican votes, the Senate Committees had equal numbers of members from each party (reason #492 why Warnock getting re-elected is important, so the Committees have majorities).

Is the 'request' spelled out in the law formally considered a subpoena, then? The law seems to use the word 'request', without further explication.

jemcanada2 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 10:21 pm

much ado wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 8:24 pm And gravy on my french fries!

Don’t forget the cheese curds to make it poutine!

And mayo on hamburgers.

noblepa wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 8:44 am

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 12:51 am

Gregg wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 10:08 pm The Senate Committee did not Subpoena it last term because they didn't have the power to do so without Republican votes, the Senate Committees had equal numbers of members from each party (reason #492 why Warnock getting re-elected is important, so the Committees have majorities).

Is the 'request' spelled out in the law formally considered a subpoena, then? The law seems to use the word 'request', without further explication.

IANAL, but the law says "Upon written request from the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, the chairman of the Committee on Finance of the Senate, or the chairman of the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Secretary shall furnish such committee with any return or return information specified in such request".

Note the word SHALL. So, I think that whether you call it a subpoena or something else, is a bit irrelevant. The Secretary of the Treasury and the IRS have no discretion, as I read the law, to decide whether or not to comply. On its face, it would appear that the law makes such a request just as binding as a full-fledged subpoena. A rose by any other name . . .

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC wrote: Just days after Trump dined with Kanye West and neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, West said this: “I like Hitler. The Holocaust is not what happened, let’s look at the facts of that. Hitler has a lot of redeeming qualities.”

Donald Trump dines with Nazis.

noblepa wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 8:44 am

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 12:51 am

Gregg wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 10:08 pm The Senate Committee did not Subpoena it last term because they didn't have the power to do so without Republican votes, the Senate Committees had equal numbers of members from each party (reason #492 why Warnock getting re-elected is important, so the Committees have majorities).

Is the 'request' spelled out in the law formally considered a subpoena, then? The law seems to use the word 'request', without further explication.

IANAL, but the law says "Upon written request from the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, the chairman of the Committee on Finance of the Senate, or the chairman of the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Secretary shall furnish such committee with any return or return information specified in such request".

Note the word SHALL. So, I think that whether you call it a subpoena or something else, is a bit irrelevant. The Secretary of the Treasury and the IRS have no discretion, as I read the law, to decide whether or not to comply. On its face, it would appear that the law makes such a request just as binding as a full-fledged subpoena. A rose by any other name . . .

Sam the Centipede wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 10:28 am Requests/subpoenas: perhaps the drafter of the letter deliberately employed the specific word "request" so that it would be unarguable that this letter was such a "written request" in accordance with the law. Whereas if it had been a subpoena, perhaps there would be more avenues for contesting it?

Trump issues a special address to J6 defendants: “Our country is going communist .. People are imprisoned right now. People are being tormented. Can’t let it happen. We’re going to stop it, and we’re going to win.”

Kendra wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 9:50 am https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/stat ... 9781600260

Trump issues a special address to J6 defendants: “Our country is going communist .. People are imprisoned right now. People are being tormented. Can’t let it happen. We’re going to stop it, and we’re going to win.”

A guy last night showed Trump his Championship Belt, so Trump decided to show him his Alpha Male boxing skills, which I put in slow-mo so you can appreciate his power and athletic prowess.

Trump expresses solidarity with Jan. 6 rioters who stormed the Capitol

By John Wagner
December 2, 2022 at 7:02 a.m. EST

Former president Donald Trump expressed solidarity with the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, sending a video of support to a fundraising event Thursday night hosted by a group called the Patriot Freedom Project that is supporting families of those being prosecuted by the government.

“People have been treated unconstitutionally, in my opinion, and very, very unfairly, and we’re going to get to the bottom of it,” he said in the video, which appeared to have been shot at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. “It’s the weaponization of the Department of Justice, and we can’t let this happen in our country.”

Trump, who last month announced a 2024 White House bid, pledged that in coming months, he would take a close look at what he characterized as “a very unfair situation.”

The Patriot Freedom Project advertises itself as “a non-profit organization providing legal, financial, mental-health, and spiritual support for individuals and their families — including young children — who are suffering at the hands of a weaponized justice system.”

Trump repeatedly has made clear that he stands with the mob that stormed the Capitol to stop Congress from counting the electoral votes for Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election.

In September, Trump said he would issue full pardons and a government apology to the rioters, some of whom violently attacked law enforcement to stop the democratic transfer of power.

“I mean full pardons with an apology to many,” he told conservative radio host Wendy Bell. Such a move would be contingent on whether Trump wins the 2024 presidential election.




https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... s-capitol/

Gregg wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 4:10 am

Gregg wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 1:11 am Am I the only one mildly alarmed that apparently a man who was once the real President doesn't know what the term "Communist" means?

Gregg wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 1:11 am Am I the only one mildly alarmed that apparently a man who was once the real President doesn't know what the term "Communist" means?