That face will always make me feel good. He is definitely dying inside. No doubt he regrets running. He’ll never say it though.
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This is what appeals courts write when they do not want the Supreme Court to consider the issue. The distinction that the subpoena is to a third party and does not involve significant issues of presidential powers/immunities is a pretty easy way for the Supreme Court not to mess with the case.
"The three-judge appeals panel did not take a position on the president’s biggest argument — that he was immune from all criminal investigations. A lower court had called that argument “repugnant to the nation’s governmental structure and constitutional values.”
Instead, the appeals court said the president’s accounting firm, not Mr. Trump himself, was subpoenaed for the documents, so it did not matter whether presidents have immunity.
“We emphasize again the narrowness of the issue before us,” the decision read. “This appeal does not require us to consider whether the president is immune from indictment and prosecution while in office, nor to consider whether the president may lawfully be ordered to produce documents for use in a state criminal proceeding.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/nyregion/trump-taxes-vance-appeal.html
They would be foolish to take the case. They don’t want Trump’s stench too firmly on long-term decisions about presidential powers.
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Yea but isn’t this precisely why Trump’s 2 SC judges were handpicked? So they could protect him from stuff like this? I can see Rapey Beer Lover saying a giant fuck you and saying Trump’s tax returns can’t be touched.
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Yes, but he needs four justices to agree to hear the case.
Also since they were part of grand jury proceedings they likely won’t be made public anyway.
Never mind the law, we will never see those returns.
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So all 5 conservatives? Unless one of them says no.
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Good thing we can count on Alito and Thomas to be unbiased adherents to the law
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I mean I haven’t read the decision so idk the specifics, but couldn’t SCOTUS just reverse on whatever point the appeals court hung their hat on and remand for the appeals court to answer the question of presidential immunity?
John Roberts is basically a liberal judge at this point with how far to the right the other 4 are.
Fair enough 
vomit
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Any cluse what he is talking about here? Did the bot miss a tweet?
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So is Doolittle the only one from the Nats who skipped the WH visit?
For those that don’t want to watch the video, here’s the money shot. Yes, that’s the POTUS molesting the catcher.
I went to a game when the Nats were in LA for the playoffs and mercilessly booed and heckled Suzuki because I thought there was no more innocuous a player in MLB. My section all joined in and it was, we thought, hilarious.
WE WERE ONTO HIM
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Coffee typo. Done.