knapplc Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Nothing to see here, just a battle between Trump's jackbooted lapdogs and the normal judiciary of the United States. If you're not interested in the rule of law and just want Trump lackeys stooging their way through your taxpayer funded government, keep voting for Trump and his Republican enablers. If you're the kind of person who thinks the rule of law should govern America & Americans, this should kinda chill you. 1 Link to comment
Moiraine Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 55 minutes ago, knapplc said: Nothing to see here, just a battle between Trump's jackbooted lapdogs and the normal judiciary of the United States. If you're not interested in the rule of law and just want Trump lackeys stooging their way through your taxpayer funded government, keep voting for Trump and his Republican enablers. If you're the kind of person who thinks the rule of law should govern America & Americans, this should kinda chill you. Quote Berman has served as the US attorney for SDNY for two and a half years. He took over the position from Preet Bharara, whom Trump fired in 2017, and legal experts said Barr likely can't force him out because he was placed in his position through a judicial appointment. "There's a pretty good argument that, per the plain language of 28 U.S.C. § 546(d), he gets to keep serving in that post until the *vacancy* is filled (through Senate confirmation of a permanent successor)," tweeted Steve Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law. However, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel has a longstanding view that while Barr can't fire Berman, the president can. https://www.businessinsider.com/geoffrey-berman-us-attorney-sdny-resigns-barr-announces-2020-6 Link to comment
Dr. Strangelove Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 10 hours ago, knapplc said: Nothing to see here, just a battle between Trump's jackbooted lapdogs and the normal judiciary of the United States. If you're not interested in the rule of law and just want Trump lackeys stooging their way through your taxpayer funded government, keep voting for Trump and his Republican enablers. If you're the kind of person who thinks the rule of law should govern America & Americans, this should kinda chill you. One thing I personally grapple with is that I really hope Democrats start playing dirty like this. On one hand, it would only increase the political division in this country. On the other hand, Democrats won't gain any points for doing things the "normal way". Republicans have so many built-in electoral advantages, Democrats need to start playing dirty as well. 1 Link to comment
ZRod Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Sorry for the tweet source... But the article is good. Quote Berman's office is investigating Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. He had obtained convictions of the president's prior personal attorney, Michael Cohen, for financial crimes, and also had charged Jeffrey Epstein, a former friend of Trump, with child sex trafficking. Also last year, it was reported that the SDNY was among a group of federal investigative offices that were probing whether Deutsche Bank had complied with anti-money laundering and other laws. Deutsche Bank has reportedly loaned billions of dollars to Trump's company, and to companies controlled by the family of his son-in-law Jared Kushner. On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that a new book by Trump's former national security advisor John Bolton describes an interaction in May 2018, when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave Trump a memo claiming that a Turkish firm being probed by Berman's office for violating sanctions on Iran was innocent of such conduct. The firm is believed to be the state-run bank Halkbank, which Berman's office was known to be investigating. "Trump then told Erdogan he would take care of things, explaining that the Southern District prosecutors were not his people, but were Obama people, a problem that would be fixed when they were replaced by his people," Bolton wrote in the book, "The Room Where it Happened: A White House Memoir," according to The Post. But Berman later obtained an indictment against Halkbank, and the case is still pending Link to comment
Moiraine Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Quote "Unfortunately, with your statement of last night, you have chosen public spectacle over public service," Barr wrote. "Because you have declared that you have no intention of resigning, I have asked the President to remove you as of today, and he has done so." https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/503731-barr-says-trump-officially-fire-Manhattan-US-attorney-Berman Link to comment
Moiraine Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 1 hour ago, knapplc said: These buffoons. I've been reading some opinions that Trump saying he's not involved means Berman is unfired (or never really was). Hoping Berman stands his ground here. He could claim since Trump says he's not involved that he's being lied to about being fired. Link to comment
QMany Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Susan Collins and Brett Kavanaugh can go F themselves. Quote "I have always been concerned about preserving Roe v. Wade" Collins said Monday, adding that Kavanaugh had given her assurances during his confirmation process that the landmark opinion was safe. "He said under oath many times, as well as to me personally many times, that he considers Roe to be 'precedent upon precedent' because it had been reaffirmed in the Casey v Planned Parenthood case," Collins added, dismissing any criticism of her as partisan politics. 1 Link to comment
TGHusker Posted June 29, 2020 Author Share Posted June 29, 2020 It appears, Roberts has replaced Kennedy as the swing vote on the SC. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/29/supreme-court-abortion-decision-louisiana-law-struck-down.html Link to comment
QMany Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 Good read to understand the nuance of Roberts' recent decisions. Quote No. Roberts is the same hardcore Republican in robes that he’s always been. It’s not that Roberts has shifted to the left; it’s that the cases he’s being asked to decide have lurched so far to the right that Roberts cannot follow where the conservatives want to go. ... Roberts is entirely willing to adopt the hardcore Republican agenda; he’s just unwilling to adopt harebrained conservative legal theories to get there. ... The only reason [June Medical] was before the Supreme Court was that conservatives thought they had enough votes to ignore precedent. ... Roberts still believes that the majority opinion in Whole Woman’s Health was wrong. But he was unwilling to ignore the precedent set by his own court just four years earlier simply because conservatives got Gorsuch and Kavanaugh on the court. That’s not how the court is supposed to work. That’s not how law is supposed to work. We’re not supposed to live in a world where laws are constitutional or not depending on how effective Mitch McConnell is at blocking or confirming Supreme Court appointments. ... Unlike his conservative colleagues, Roberts, who is only 65 years old, understands that he will wield power for another decade or more. It’s that long view that explains his other major opinion from Monday, in Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In that case, Roberts wrote a majority opinion ruling that the president could fire the head of the Consumer Financial Protect Bureau (CFPB) whenever the president wants to. The CFPB was set up to have independence from the whims of the executive branch, and that included making the director of the bureau essentially unable to be fired, except for cause. ... But conservatives wanted Roberts to go further. They wanted him to rule that the entire CFPB was unconstitutional, not merely the law protecting its director from the president. Roberts did not, because he understands that he doesn’t have to do that to accomplish the Republican agenda. His ruling allows Republican presidents, including the current one, to gut the CFPB from the inside by simply appointing a director who doesn’t care about the institution. It’s the game Republicans have played, effectively, with all the executive agencies: from the DOJ to the EPA, Republicans have long undermined the power of the government by installing directors who don’t believe in the agencies they run. You don’t have to take the constitutionally radical step of nullifying an entire agency when you can simply make sure that the entire executive branch serves at the pleasure of the president. Again, Roberts rules like a man who plans to be here when Donald Trump is off somewhere hawking “America Used to Be Great” hats at the “Donald J. Trump MOST Presidential Library and Bigly Golf Course.” His rulings do not reflect a moderation of his philosophy; they reflect an unwillingness to be caught up by the lawlessness of this moment. 2 Link to comment
TGHusker Posted June 30, 2020 Author Share Posted June 30, 2020 Trump would like to be able to name another justice before the election - of course as a means to gather support for the election. Of course none of the liberals will step down. The 2 oldest conservatives haven't given any clues they will do so so ........... https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/politics/trump-supreme-court-campaign-boost/index.html ..........it kind of reminds me of this movie: The Pelican Brief Taut thriller about a young law student whose legal brief about the assassination of two Supreme Court justices causes her to be targeted by killers. She realizes just how accurate her accusations have been when her lover and mentor is murdered. Forced to go on the run in New Orleans, she is aided by a journalist who helps her unravel a conspiracy involving senior government figures. Link to comment
QMany Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 Trump and his court-packing wins, Americans won't see the information they deserve before election day. Link to comment
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