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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 for not allowing Trump to participate.
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 seat whichever sober-appearing warm body the Federalist Society could manage to scare up. Continue reading Would Republicans stick to the ‘Garland Rule’ if Trump were on his way out?
Impeachment Roundup for Tuesday Continue reading Trump begins process of under-bussing Rudy Giuliani, and other impeachment news
A motion ‘in limine’ is a trial motion to limit or exclude certain testimony or evidence, and the judge, in deciding what the jury can hear, considers how relevant that evidence is to the proceeding versus the potential likelihood that the evidence will prejudice the jury.
Continue reading Beck tells Australian newspaper: ‘I’m not a Scientologist’
Fiona Hill’s opening statement is aimed straight at Devin Nunes’ square head. Continue reading Fiona Hill aims her opening statement right at the square head of Devin Nunes
Gordon Sondland is smiling and confident looking right now but today is going to be brutal for him, I think. Continue reading Watching Ambassador Sondland provide testimony that is devastating to Trump
Catching up on impeachment stuff. I missed Vindman and Williams entirely this morning but have been watching Volker and Morrison, who are the first witnesses to appear that were requested by Republican Committee members. Each of them made the Democrats’ case, despite that they’re both trying to please everyone, splitting disingenuous hairs and playing dumb about what was obvious and wasn’t obvious at the time of key events in the timeline. Continue reading More witnesses make the case for impeachment, even when they’re trying not to
[Regarding this story: House investigating whether Trump lied to Mueller] One of the disappointments about Mueller’s report was how willing he was to accept Trump’s failure to cooperate. The conversation would likely be very different now had they subpoenaed him, which they had every right to do. Instead, Mueller let him answer a series of written questions, 27 of which (the difficult ones) Trump replied to with some version of “I do not recall.” Advertisement
The new video from ex-JW advocate Lloyd Evans sounds like a fun one. Here’s his description: Continue reading VIDEO: Jehovah’s Witnesses are told that ‘murmuring’ is of the devil |
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