J: did you argue your "clear statement" with the DC Circuit? I think this argument is forfeited because you didn't raise it in the lower courts. You asked for immunity. Sauer: they're closely related. J: that's totally circular. You used the argument to AVOID constitutional question here. One more question: what is the argument that POTUS, who is bound by the law, is not on notice that he has to to his job consistent with the law. So why does congress have to say in every law "and the president is included." Is that what they have to do when writing laws?
Justice Kagan today: “The framers did not put an immunity clause into the Constitution. They knew how to; there were immunity clauses in some state constitutions. They didn’t provide immunity to the president. And, you know — not so surprising — they were reacting against a monarch who claimed to be above the law. Wasn’t the whole point that the president was not a monarch and the president was not supposed to be above the law?”
@TomJChicago Ever notice how "vile" and "evil" contain the same letters?
I have your same assessment of the awfulness of the MAGA five males.
Totalitarianism is evil and vile!
Alito: "Did I understand you to say, 'Well, you know, if he makes a mistake, he makes a mistake. He's subject to the criminal laws just like anybody else' You don't think he's in a peculiarly precarious position?"
Michael Dreeben, representing the U.S.: "He's under a constitutional obligation ... he's supposed to be faithful to the laws of the United States and the Constitution of the United States."
"And making a mistake is not what lands you in a criminal prosecution."
Is it totally lost on the American people, that the very same Supreme Court who ruled that 172 million women should no longer have the freedom to decide to their own pregnancy choices, is now, all of sudden, struggling with the idea of whether ONE MAN should have the freedom to commit crimes without punishment?
@JohnWDean It's more important than ever that Biden win and enlarges the Supreme Court to 13. This corruption of the SCOTUS can not stand to ruin democracy.
@JohnWDean Uh,with respect, they first had to get around the CONSTITUTION ITSELF which makes no claims of presidents having immunity while committing crimes. So how is it decided if it's a crime in our system? AN INVESTIGATION, EVIDENCE, GRAND JURY, INDICTMENT, TRIAL, VERDICT AND APPEALS.
@JohnWDean @MuellerSheWrote If Alito can conjure up a 16 th century British witch burner to overturn Roe v Wade- these goofs can and will do anything. Speaking if the Trumpet Con men
Am I the only one who didn't know that James Comey was part of the Trump team? All the discussion I heard of his reason for announcing Hillary Clinton's renewed investigation in October 2016 centered around his *personal* judgments as FBI Director?
To see Comey connected with Trump's inner circle and information control system while FBI director is deeply disturbing considering his role in the 2016 campaign.
"I received first a text from Michael Cohen saying that The Boss wants to speak to me. Then Donald Trump called me."
— Pecker, relating how, three days before Election Day, Trump accused Pecker of leaking WSJ's scoop about Karen McDougal