Evil has a face and you’re wearing it
Lies all lies filthy lies
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giving republicans a carrot cake is the most resistance anyone has done in 3 years now.
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Lol media jacking off RMoney for asking a semi legitimate question
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https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1222681951557115904
https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1222681952425299969
https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1222681953264193545
https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1222681953977208832
“They appear to be succumbing to pressure from the administration,” Schiff said on ABC’s “This Week.” "The NSA in particular is withholding what are potentially relevant documents to our oversight responsibilities on Ukraine, but also withholding documents potentially relevant that the senators might want to see during the trial.
“That is deeply concerning,” Schiff continued. "And there are signs that the CIA may be on the same tragic course. We are counting on the intelligence community not only to speak truth to power but to resist pressure from the administration to withhold information from Congress because the administration fears that they incriminate them.
“The intelligence community is reluctant to have an open hearing, something that we had done every year prior to the Trump administration, because they’re worried about angering the president.”
Witnesses vote going 50-50 and Roberts saying lol no would maybe be the worst way to end this shitshow.
https://twitter.com/HouseForeign/status/1222575601560834048
https://twitter.com/RepEliotEngel/status/1222725477107994624
So glad I’ll have the chance to vote this trashcan out in a few months.
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I’ve thought about that scenario and I really think Roberts would snap vote yes to witnesses. The GOP trashing the rule of law so willingly for the sake of partisanship must have Roberts mortified. Dershowitz is making insane arguments. But if this did happen and Roberts did say no to witnesses, I would conclude that WAAF and I mean for real.
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Wish he would sack the fuck up and do something about it. Anything, really.
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Moving from mueller will to save us to roberts will save is a pretty flambé take.
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The Democrats are saying they’ll trust Roberts to decide on witness relevance to expedite things. Trump’s lawyers say they will not. If you didn’t know better, you would conclude by watching this that Roberts was nominated by a Democratic President. Roberts is seeing first hand that the Senate is completely corrupted by politics. Deciding against witnesses would send a signal that the Supreme Court is corrupted as well. From all I’ve heard, Roberts is an institutionalist and I just don’t think he would want to go there. Of course, I could be wrong.
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If I could offer a brief word to temper the WAAF crowd
This is mostly standard process for impeachment now. Each side presents oral arguments and asks questions. Then a vote is taken on whether to proceed, and if so, what that looks like.
From Clinton’s impeachment:
On January 25, Senator Robert Byrd moved for dismissals of both articles of impeachment for lack of merit. On the following day, Representative Bryant moved to call witnesses to the trial, a question the Senate had scrupulously avoided to that point. In both cases, the Senate voted to deliberate on the question in private session, rather than public, televised procedure.
A resolution on rules and procedure for the trial was adopted unanimously on the following day;[37] however, senators tabled the question of whether to call witnesses in the trial. The trial remained in recess while briefs were filed by the House (January 11) and Clinton (January 13).
The initial vote was not whether to allow witnesses. It was whether to bypass precedent and allow them as a matter of fact.
Obviously they should in this case, but surely you can imagine scenarios where the president is a Dem and you’d want the GOP to at least make their argument for witnesses before anyone votes.
Roberts ain’t gonna do shit.
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This is a sweet summer child post. Roberts votes no witnesses. He doesn’t care.
Roberts benefits from being less scummy than Gorsuch, Alito, Thomas, and Kavanaugh. But this is a relative property. In absolute terms, Roberts sucks bad and is a partisan operative, sanctimonious speeches on the impartiality of the judicial branch notwithstanding.