Tiberius Posted September 23, 2019 Author Posted September 23, 2019 By Amber Phillips September 23, 2019 at 2:49 p.m. EDT House Democrats are so frustrated with President Trump’s administration and his allies blocking their investigative efforts that some have seriously encouraged invoking a long-dormant power Congress has to jail or fine uncooperative witnesses. House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), the lawmaker leading the impeachment inquiry, indicated some support for the idea, The Washington Post reported. It sounds extreme, but it’s an authority so integral to Congress that it’s in the name “inherent contempt.” Congress used that authority throughout much of its history to enforce its ability to subpoena people and documents, though it hasn’t been used in nearly a century. Under inherent contempt, Congress could fine people who aren’t cooperating with them today. At the top of their list for any of these punishments might be the acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, who is withholding a whistleblower complaint about the president, or former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who complied with a subpoena but mocked Congress once there. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/23/inherent-contempt-how-house-democrats-could-fine-or-even-jail-trump-officials-who-refuse-cooperate/ Do it
Koko78 Posted September 23, 2019 Posted September 23, 2019 42 minutes ago, Tiberius said: Do it Yeah, I'd really like to see Nadler try to collect the fine. 1
3rdnlng Posted September 23, 2019 Posted September 23, 2019 I'm sure you really don't want to see him:
Koko78 Posted September 23, 2019 Posted September 23, 2019 4 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said: I'm sure you really don't want to see him: You kidding? I'd pay to see him get stopped at the front desk , throwing a fit that the mean secretary won't let him by.
DC Tom Posted September 26, 2019 Posted September 26, 2019 5 minutes ago, B-Man said: . REPUBLICAN members. They'd denounce Schiff even if he weren't making things up. Let me know when a Democrat calls Schiff out. 3
B-Man Posted September 29, 2019 Posted September 29, 2019 Adam Schiff's Impeachment Fun Playhouse by Clarice Feldman Original Article In tacit recognition that his party will never beat the President in 2020 with the gang of whackos vying to head their ticket and that no real impeachment will ever occur, Congressman Adam Schiff, with the acquiescence of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, called to order what they are calling an “impeachment inquiry.” It’s presumably designed to see whether formal impeachment proceedings should begin. (Impeachment proceedings cannot take place without a vote to do so in the House. Vulnerable Democrats would never vote for it any more than would almost all Republican Congressmen. And conviction and removal from office for impeachment would have to occur after a full hearing and two-thirds vote in the Senate. Which also will not happen. The Democrats, again, are counting on the civics and Constitutional ignorance of their base.) It flopped, in any event. The hearings, in fact, show that this is simply the rerun of the Russian Collusion scam. Only the name of the country has changed -- this time, it’s Ukraine; a country you may know is a major enemy of the Russians. As Daniel Greenfield persuasively argues, these investigations are attempts to delegitimize the President and his Administration, and I predict people are sick of this nonsense. I urge you to read this article in its entirety. More at the link: . 1
B-Man Posted September 30, 2019 Posted September 30, 2019 ADAM SCHIFF AS THE VOICE OF REASON? ? House Democrats have decided that Adam Schiff, not Jerry Nadler, will lead their impeachment charge. The Washington Post suggests that Corey Lewandowski’s appearance before Nadler and the House Judiciary Committee sealed the deal. In the Post’s words, Lewandowski “made his questioners look helpless. . .” One top Democrat pronounced the hearing “a fiasco.” According to the Post, Schiff earned the trust of his Democratic colleagues as a public messenger by leading the party’s charge on alleged collusion by President Trump with Russia. Rep. Denny Heck, a Democrat from Nevada [correction, from Washington] , says: There’s no better guy on the face of the planet to undertake this [investigation] in an adultlike, intelligent, integrity-filled manner than Adam B. Schiff. Period, full stop. Maybe there are two Adam B. Schiffs in the House. The one I’m familiar with beclowned himself pursuing the non-story of Trump’s collusion with Russia. The collusion narrative he peddled for more than two years collapsed. The Adam B. Schiff I’m familiar with kicked off the Ukraine-related impeachment campaign by misrepresenting what Trump said to Ukraine’s president during the now famous phone conversation between the two. Schiff later claimed his rendition was a “parody.” This is what passes for “adultlike, intelligent, and integrity-filled” within the Democratic caucus. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/09/adam-schiff-as-the-voice-of-reason.php 1
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted October 2, 2019 Posted October 2, 2019 On 9/28/2019 at 11:13 AM, B-Man said: ...poor California (COUGH)....homeless AND shameless problems.....bet the farm this fraud gets re-elected in 2020.....78% of the vote in 2018..SMH...... On 9/23/2019 at 6:33 PM, Koko78 said: You kidding? I'd pay to see him get stopped at the front desk , throwing a fit that the mean secretary won't let him by. ,,,,looks like his water finally broke...... 1
B-Man Posted October 7, 2019 Posted October 7, 2019 The Intelligence Committee is where the truth-challenged Chairman Adam Schiff is orchestrating the impeachment action. Rep. John Ratcliffe made two key points: the Intelligence Committee should not be where the action is and what we have here is failure to communicate. The two are related. RealClearPolitics has posted video along with a transcript here.
Tiberius Posted October 7, 2019 Author Posted October 7, 2019 Trump supporters talking about lies of other politicians? Quote A federal judge on Monday dismissed President Trump’s lawsuit seeking to block the Manhattan district attorney from obtaining the president’s tax returns as part of an investigation into hush-money payments during the 2016 campaign. U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero rejected Trump’s argument that the presidency makes him immune to any investigation by any prosecutor. In his 75-page ruling, Marrero called such a claim “extraordinary” and wrote, “This Court cannot endorse such a categorical and limitless assertion of presidential immunity from judicial process.” The ruling allows District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. (D) to enforce a subpoena he sent to Trump’s longtime accountants, Mazars USA. Trump had filed an unorthodox lawsuit seeking to stop that subpoena, saying that he would suffer “irreparable harm” if prosecutors obtained his tax returns. The Justice Department also took Trump’s side in the case. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-judge-rules-trump-must-turn-over-his-tax-returns-to-manhattan-da-but-trump-has-indicated-he-will-appeal/2019/10/07/29e1fda6-e8a4-11e9-85c0-85a098e47b37_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-low_trumplawsuit-910am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans The justice department actually sided with the "unlimited power" argument of the president
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