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The Trump Presidency: Part 17

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Ken White aka HumanScumHat has a transcript of an unreported call:

Ukranian 1: ANYONE ELSE YOU WANT CALL? HERE IS MY CELL PHONE. YOU CALL INTERPOL?

Giuliani: please please it was .. they were mistakes

Ukranian 2: YOU ARE WORSE CRIMINAL WE EVER MEET, AND WE LIVED IN FLORIDA

FBI Agent On Speaker Phone: guys guys stop shouting it's kinda echo-y
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A fifth judge has just been confirmed by the Senate who were determined to be "not qualified" by the America Bar Association. Sarah Pitlyk never even tried a case.

Last week, the Senate advanced the nomination for a lifetime tenured position of a 37-year-old associate professor, who had been rated “not qualified” by the American Bar Association. Justin Walker, the prospective judge in question, has never tried a case. He’s never been co-counsel in a case. His principal qualification for a federal district court judgeship seems to be his important legal work spent “conducting over 70 interviews in which he challenged the account of Christine Blasey Ford.” He’s a TV judge whom Mitch McConnell somehow touted as “unquestionably the most outstanding nomination that I’ve ever recommended to Presidents to serve on the bench in Kentucky.” Despite his lack of any judicial qualifications and the once-rare not-qualified ABA rating, every Republican on the Judiciary Committee voted to advance his nomination while Democrats broke against him. As Jennifer Bendery noted here, “in his entire eight years in the White House, President Barack Obama didn’t nominate anyone to be a lifetime federal judge who earned a ‘not qualified’ ABA rating.” Walker was Trump’s fourth. And on Thursday, the Senate is poised to vote on the fifth, Sarah Pitlyk, nominated to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Like Walker, Pitlyk hasn’t generated much attention, despite the fact that she too has no trial experience whatsoever, which is what earned her the ABA’s not-qualified rating. “Ms. Pitlyk has never tried a case as lead or co-counsel, whether civil or criminal. She has never examined a witness,” the ABA said in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The absence of any work in litigation was once disqualifying for putative nominees, even in the eyes of some Republicans (you may recall that Sen. John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) was once bothered by such trivial matters). Now the fact of no experience is used by defenders to say that others with thin records have been confirmed so why not? We have now reached a newer threshold, in which Senate Republicans object not to a nominee’s lack of judicial experience, but only to their failure to hew perfectly to the Federalist Society template for judicial acceptability. Like many nominees who have been advanced before her, Pitlyk’s primary legal work has consisted of attacks on abortion rights, tempered by attacks on constitutionally protected contraception rights, leavened by other attacks on abortion, and supported with her work defending David Daleiden—the author of a vicious smear campaign against Planned Parenthood, based on fake videos of Planned Parenthood officials appearing to negotiate the sale of aborted fetal body parts.
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics...-nomination-anti-abortion-activist-trump.html

Only in this Trumpian alternative to common sense world would judges deemed "not qualified" be appointed to lifetime federal judgeships by a Senate with their noses so far up Trump's and McConnell's arses. Disgusting.
 
Aridas said:
I'll even make it easy! When a person or group, far too frequently Republican, shows that they're utter scum, I have called them such. I suppose I'll say this with the note that I really do not like having excellent reason to call anyone scum, though.

Of course... Trump's quote has now been expanded and expanded upon by his Administration.

"Human Scum." Press Sec Stephanie Grisham doubles down, expanding it to all who are "against" Trump

I think that she's quite earned the title of scum herself, either way.
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Anyone remember the outrage from Trumpites when Hillary said that half of them were a basket of deplorables?
 
Trump Tweets

Democrats just announced that they no longer want the Whistleblower to testify. But everything was about the Whistleblower (they no longer want the second Whistleblower either), which they don’t want because the account of my call bore NO RELATIONSHIP to the call itself.....

....The entire Impeachment Scam was based on my perfect Ukrainian call, and the Whistleblowers account of that call, which turned out to be false (a fraud?). Once I released the actual call, their entire case fell apart. The Democrats must end this Scam now. Witch Hunt!

My lawyers should sue the Democrats and Shifty Adam Schiff for fraud!
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

Democrats just announced that they no longer want the Whistleblower to testify. But everything was about the Whistleblower (they no longer want the second Whistleblower either), which they don’t want because the account of my call bore NO RELATIONSHIP to the call itself.....

....The entire Impeachment Scam was based on my perfect Ukrainian call, and the Whistleblowers account of that call, which turned out to be false (a fraud?). Once I released the actual call, their entire case fell apart. The Democrats must end this Scam now. Witch Hunt!

My lawyers should sue the Democrats and Shifty Adam Schiff for fraud!
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Does the idiot in the WH actually believe the **** he spews on twitter? I think he really does...which scares the crap out of me. I think most of his tweets belong in the "Is Donald Trump mentally ill" thread.
 
quadraginta said:
Obviously calling some people on the opposite side of the political spectrum "deplorable" is far, far worse than calling all of them "scum".
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Not even that... It is calling some people on the opposite side of the political spectrum, who are doing deplorable things, "deplorable", compared to calling everyone that disagrees with you on both sides of the political spectrum, "scum".
 
Stacyhs said:
A fifth judge has just been confirmed by the Senate who were determined to be "not qualified" by the America Bar Association. Sarah Pitlyk never even tried a case.


https://slate.com/news-and-politics...-nomination-anti-abortion-activist-trump.html

Only in this Trumpian alternative to common sense world would judges deemed "not qualified" be appointed to lifetime federal judgeships by a Senate with their noses so far up Trump's and McConnell's arses. Disgusting.
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What's even more bizarre is the Federalist society is so found wanting of qualified judges that support their POV they have to put forward unqualified judges. This last one never oversaw a single case? Are they serious?

Like Bush getting attorneys from the unaccredited Liberty University to fill the DoJ.
 
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GlennB said:
I've been wondering about US subpoenas lately. I'd always thought they carried some force of law, and that there might maybe be a penalty for ignoring them.

Is this like that old thing - "If you owe the bank a thousand dollars you're in trouble. If you them a billion dollars they are in trouble"? Sort of?
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No. It's a case of the enforcers of the law being in league with the breakers of it. You can think of corrupt police officers that are being paid off by the mafia to make their problems go away as a much, much more accurate concept. The bank one, not so much.

PhantomWolf said:
Anyone remember the outrage from Trumpites when Hillary said that half of them were a basket of deplorables?
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"Outrage?" After the way that so many embraced being called that? I'm still not convinced that "outrage" comprised a significant portion of the reason why the GOP twisted and weaponized it. Rather, it was more like the "I invented the internets" that they falsely attributed to Gore.

In other news...

Betsy DeVos held in contempt for collecting loans from defrauded students

She's being an exemplary example of human scum, as usual.

White House kicks infosec team to curb in IT office shakeup
Senior staffer quits over "highly concerning" lack of security practices.

As usual, there will probably not even be a peep out of the Republicans about National Security as the Trump Administration continues their crusade to destroy ours. All the more reason to completely ignore anything they say on the matter in the future, at least until the Republican Party actually demonstrates that they actually legitimately care - which is pretty much the exact opposite of what they've been doing for much more the last decade.
 
PhantomWolf said:
Not even that... It is calling some people on the opposite side of the political spectrum, who are doing deplorable things, "deplorable", compared to calling everyone that disagrees with you on both sides of the political spectrum, "scum".
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Hillary sneered her remarks in secret to a bunch of smug liberals. Trump's just a lot more forthright.
 
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