The report notes that its findings are incomplete after House Republicans took control of the committee last year and halted the investigation, which the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., started in 2016 when he was the top Democrat on the committee.
“It is true that $7.8 million is almost certainly only a fraction of Trump’s harvest of unlawful foreign state money, but this figure in itself is a scandal and a decisive spur to action,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, wrote in the report’s foreword.
“The Trumps did exactly what they say the Bidens should be imprisoned for” is the most shocking political revelation I’ve read since “the Trumps did exactly what they say Hillary Clinton should be imprisoned for.”
even though the court proceedings are paused, the prosecution wasn’t stopped from continuing to compile documents and prepare their case. i don’t know anything about law. apparently neither do ■■■■■’s lawyers…?
I do. And there’s a part I have alluded to here a couple of times. Section 5 of the 14th Amendment.
Even though the 14th amendment, section 5 gives Congress the power to enforce the guarantees, Congress is silent for the first half of the 20th century until forced to begin legislating by a grassroots activist wave that we call the civil rights movement.
This, to me, a big failure on the part of Congress in the immediate years after the 14th was ratified. They were supposed to pass laws to define it, refine it, and enforce it. And they just didn’t. All these questions being asked now about section 3 (does it apply to the President, does he have to have been convicted, etc) should have been dealt with through legislation. That’s how our Constitution has always worked. It’s just a basic framework, and then Congress and the executive branch are supposed to fill in the gaps. But with the 14th, they just left the gaps. I haven’t finished the article yet, but thank you for pointing me to it!
Honestly I think Trump’s lawyers are probably breathing a collective sigh of relief about that order. What a nightmare of a client (which is not to say they deserve any sympathy; they knew what they were signing up for).
Sure they needed to make it look like they were arguing for what Trump wanted, but I’m not convinced they ever really wanted him on the stand. I wouldn’t be surprised if they torpedoed that particular request on purpose.
Nasty woman
Unprecedented attack by Biden administration
“Never before in history”
Liberals
Vermin
Magnets
Border wall
Israel
Ukraine
Hummus
“Leading in the Polls”
“Leading GOP candidate”
Immunity
“I did nothing wrong”
