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Russian’s $1 million to Parnas: Another stubborn fact for Trump surrogates to wave off

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this story… Giuliani associate received $1 million payment from Ukrainian oligarch’s lawyer: prosecutor]

While Trump surrogates are breaking their brains to conceive of a conspiracy theory from cheesecloth and fairy dust that might exonerate him if you squint just so, it’s against []

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Rudy Giuliani is so off the rails now, it’s like he stole a cop car and is driving drunk in it

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this story… Giuliani returns from Ukraine with new, very questionable “evidence” that the Bidens committed “multiple crimes”]

It’s hard to come up with a decent analogy for what Giuliani is doing right now, but imagine getting pulled over for drunk driving, stealing []

Witnesses or no witnesses: How much of a sham trial will Republican senators put on?

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

Just as the House has the “sole power” to impeach, the Senate gets to conduct the trial. Since the House Republicans spent so much time feigning outrage about the supposed lack of due process, you’d think the Senate Republicans would be especially []

In FBI probe, suddenly the Right cares about law enforcement and Fourth Amendment issues

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this New York Times story by Charlie Savage: We Just Got a Rare Look at National Security Surveillance. It Was Ugly.]

The FBI’s conduct in obtaining the Carter Page warrant is pretty bad, even if it seems likely that they’d have gotten []

Trump accused: Key quotes from the Articles of Impeachment

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

Quick notes and quotes from the impeachment []

This 2014 op-ed by Jonathan Turley shows just how full of it he is now

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

In 2014 Jonathan Turley wrote this 2014 Washington Post op-ed piece that’s a pretty accurate take in response to impeachment myths that Republicans had been floating regarding Obama’s implementation of the []

Trump loses appeal to block bank records that could be more damaging than his tax returns

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this article: Trump loses appeal to block Deutsche Bank, Capital One from handing over his financial records to Congress]

Yet another court (Second Circuit Court of Appeals) rules against Trump’s attempt to prevent disclosure of his financial records, here Capitol One and []

Trump whines about being left out of inquiry, but then turns down chance to participate

[Trump and Nadler]

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

So Trump has declined Jerry Nadler’s invitation to participate in the next phase of the impeachment inquiry, scheduled to commence this week, which isn’t all that surprising since actually participating would undermine their argument that the inquiry was a sham []

Would Republicans stick to the ‘Garland Rule’ if Trump were on his way out?

Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

[Regarding this NY Times story: Why Republicans will sidestep their Garland Rule for the Court in 2020]

If a SCOTUS vacancy opened on the morning a Democrat president-elect was to be sworn in, the outgoing Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate wouldn’t hesitate to []

Trump begins process of under-bussing Rudy Giuliani, and other impeachment news

 Attorney Scott Pilutik wrestles with the news of the day, from a lawyerly perspective…

Impeachment Roundup for []