Cont: Mueller Investigation pt3

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Squeegee Beckenheim said:
Okay, you are free to panic about a lack of hand-holding if you like. I'll take solace in the fact that everybody else has responded like the capable adults I assumed they were, and have proven themselves capable of reading 22 tweets of no more than 280 characters each without getting lost and confused.

Artist's impression of The Big Dog, yesterday:
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Wow, hopefully you have learned something then? Like reading the tweet storms before you inflict incompetent links on the thread?

Everyone else responded like they did because i immediately posted that the link you tried to foist on them was a dumpster fire.

And you still never thanked me.

Oh well.

Thanks TBD
 
Quite a lot of tidbits in this article

The key claims are:

  • If Mueller's investigation is ended, the House Democrats are likely to call him to Capitol Hill to testify as to his findings, live on television.
  • Democrats will pass on transcripts from the Congressional probe to Mueller, for him to determine whether or not there was any perjury.
  • They will be looking in to whether or not Trump ordered Cohen to break campaign finance laws.
  • They will re-open the Congressional Russia probe.
 
This article, by a certain Conway's husband, makes the argument that even if Sessions resigned and the Vacancies Reform Act was invoked, Whitaker is illegitimate. Napolitano on Fox said the same.

I haven't heard any Democrats making this argument, so I'm not sure how accurate it is. This article gives a long overview of the issues, but it would takes months at least for a court to decide the issue. It seems like a genuinely open question.
 
On top of all the other quotes from Whitaker:

“There is no case for obstruction of justice because the president has all the power of the executive and delegates that to people like the FBI director and the attorney general…The president could and has in our nation’s history said stop investigating this person or please investigate this other person.” Whitaker belittled talk about obstruction of justice in this case as “hyperventilation.”

In another radio interview on the day of the Comey testimony, Whittaker dissed the Mueller investigation, remarking, “There’s really nothing here.” And he explicitly said Trump had the right to shut it down or control its direction: “This is power that is completely vested in the president…If he wanted to he could have told Jim [Comey] to stop investigating former [Defense Intelligence Agency] director Flynn. And he didn’t…I’m sure he made his preference known. Quite frankly, he’s president of the United States. He can do that.” Whitaker conceded that it might be fair to characterize such a presidential demand as “inappropriate,” but he insisted it would well be within Trump’s prerogatives.
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Linky.
 
Tsukasa Buddha said:
This article, by a certain Conway's husband, makes the argument that even if Sessions resigned and the Vacancies Reform Act was invoked, Whitaker is illegitimate. Napolitano on Fox said the same.

I haven't heard any Democrats making this argument, so I'm not sure how accurate it is. This article gives a long overview of the issues, but it would takes months at least for a court to decide the issue. It seems like a genuinely open question.
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A little more:

Even John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California-Berkeley who helped the George W. Bush administration draft its expansive claims to executive power, says the Whitaker appointment may be out of line.

"The Constitution says that principal officers must go through appointment with the advice and consent of the Senate. In Morrison v. Olson, the Supreme Court made clear that the Attorney General is a principal officer. Therefore, Whittaker cannot serve as acting Attorney General despite the Vacancies Act (which does provide for him to be acting AG) — the statute is unconstitutional when applied in this way."
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I've never seen an innocent man try so hard to stop and discredit an investigation that would prove his innocence as Trump. :rolleyes:

Lots of rallies protesting Whitaker's appointment to acting AG. Trump sure can pick 'em.

Can anyone think of an Obama appointment that engendered rallies in the street protesting it?
 
Sure, the question of the legality of Whitaker's appointment is far from settled.
But it might take the Supreme Court to make a final ruling - and Whitaker might not be in the job for that long.
 
Is it that case that all issues of import will end up in some way before the supreme court?

If that's the case then given the make up of the supreme court, the actual legal position doesn't matter, the SC will fall on the side of Trump and co.
 
Whitaker backlash prompts concern at the White House

Several senior officials told CNN they were surprised by the criticism, and believe it could potentially jeopardize Whitaker's chances of remaining in the post if it continues to dominate headlines.
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...a source close to the President told CNN that the idea of Whitaker ending or suppressing the Russia probe is not an option as of now.
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It was not widely known among White House staff that he'd commented repeatedly on the special counsel's investigation in interviews and on television -- which is ironic given that this is what drew President Donald Trump to him....
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Trump often seems to be playing a different game than his staff members.

Some of the strongest arguments against Whitaker's appointment are being made by George Conway - husband of one of Trump's closest confidants and strongest defenders, Kellyanne Conway. One would love to be a fly on the wall and listen to the dinnertime conversation in the Conway household.
 
crescent said:
Whitaker backlash prompts concern at the White House





Trump often seems to be playing a different game than his staff members.

Some of the strongest arguments against Whitaker's appointment are being made by George Conway - husband of one of Trump's closest confidants and strongest defenders, Kellyanne Conway. One would love to be a fly on the wall and listen to the dinnertime conversation in the Conway household.
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Kellyanne: Did you get paid a huge pile of money today, George?

George: Indeed

Kellyanne: Me too.
 
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