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Democratic senators sue to block Matthew Whitaker’s appointment as acting attorney general
Fox News ^ | November 19, 2018 | Alex Pappas

Posted on 11/19/2018 9:42:51 AM PST by jazusamo

Three Democratic senators on Monday filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of President Trump’s appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general.

Whitaker was appointed by Trump to lead the Justice Department after Attorney General Jeff Sessions was forced out of the role earlier this month.

Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono filed the complaint against Whitaker in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday. All three issues fiery statements.

“Installing Matthew Whitaker so flagrantly defies constitutional law that any viewer of School House Rock would recognize it. Americans prize a system of checks and balances, which President Trump’s dictatorial appointment betrays,” Blumenthal said.

"The stakes are too high to allow the president to install an unconfirmed lackey to lead the Department of Justice – a lackey whose stated purpose, apparently, is undermining a major investigation into the president,” Whitehouse said.

“Donald Trump cannot subvert the Constitution to protect himself and evade accountability,” Hirono said.

The senators argue that Whitaker’s appointment is in violation of the Constitution’s appointments clause. They ask the federal court to declare Whitaker’s appointment unconstitutional and block him from carrying out duties.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut; US: Hawaii; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: 115th; actingag; attorneygeneral; blumenthal; connecticut; democrats; doj; hawaii; hirono; lawsuit; maziehirono; obstructionistdems; rhodeisland; richardblumenthal; russia; sheldonwhitehouse; trumpcabinet; trumpdoj; whitaker; whitehouse
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To: jazusamo

This guy must be GREAT!!!! I LOVE him MORE every time I read crap like this!! GO MATT!


61 posted on 11/19/2018 11:36:24 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: jazusamo

OMG! Those three are an EMBARRASSAMENT!!


62 posted on 11/19/2018 11:37:14 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: windsorknot

“I wish to express my appreciation to the idiots that gave the House back to the Dims.”

It was fraud. Fraud, not votes. We need to remember that fact, and never repeat the fantasy that actual votes by actual Americans elected any demonrat.


63 posted on 11/19/2018 11:38:23 AM PST by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: jazusamo

Sneaky pinkos trying to pull a fast one. Unamerican turds.


64 posted on 11/19/2018 11:38:55 AM PST by GoldenPup
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To: jazusamo
Last night Levin had VDH on for the hour, Levin called them the Democrat party.

As should we all.

There's nothing democratic about the Democrat party.

65 posted on 11/19/2018 11:39:07 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: dsc

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That’s a fact!
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66 posted on 11/19/2018 11:39:29 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: windsorknot

“I wish to express my appreciation to the idiots that gave the House back to the Dims.”

40 of them are alive and well. The ringleader is dead and buried.


67 posted on 11/19/2018 11:39:41 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (EVERYONE IS UNIQUE! JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!)
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To: backwoods-engineer

backwoods-engineer wrote:

I think you’re mixing up “Schoolhouse Rock,” the 1970’s ABC after-school cartoon shorts that taught grammar, civics and the Constitution, with Jack Black’s insipid movie “School of Rock”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHp7sMqPL0g


68 posted on 11/19/2018 11:43:46 AM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

“The idiot Republicans, in their desire to get along and be bipartisan, have rubber-stamped wacko liberal judges appointed by democrats for decades.”

If Ho Chi Minh were our leader, he would promulgate a list of judges to be assassinated. That’s how the Forces of Evil operate.

How can we rid ourselves of these judges without using intrinsically evil means?


69 posted on 11/19/2018 11:49:35 AM PST by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: jjotto

Correct. As authorized by the “Necessary And Proper” clause, whose interpretation is now backed by almost two centuries of SCOTUS precedent. To overturn it would demolish the socialists’ sacred cow, the modern administrative state, which depends on Congress’ ability to use a statute to delegate Congress’ Constitutional authority to Executive Branch agencies.


70 posted on 11/19/2018 11:53:34 AM PST by sourcery (Non Aquiesco: "I do not consent" (Latin))
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To: Red Badger

Yep. Dan Bongino postulated that Whitaker was responsible for some bread crumb trails of Leftist malfeasance when the FISA application related to the prosecution of James Wolfe in the leak to the reporter who was giving him sex for information.

I thought his take was pretty good.

The more the Liberals show their butts on this, the more impressed I am with Whitaker. I hope he is an a-hole hardass to them.


71 posted on 11/19/2018 11:55:04 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Windflier
There's nothing democratic about the Democrat party.

Amen to that!

72 posted on 11/19/2018 11:56:46 AM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: OKSooner

The Rats are scared, very scared. Like!


73 posted on 11/19/2018 11:57:16 AM PST by romanesq (For George Soros so loved the world, he gave us Obama)
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To: longhorn too

[The Democrats must really afraid of this guy!]

Apparently so.


74 posted on 11/19/2018 12:00:05 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: sourcery

Exactly. Those who choose the Whitaker appointment, as opposed to the War Powers Act or a hundred other Congressional delegations of powers, to harp on are simply Deep State stooges.


75 posted on 11/19/2018 12:03:25 PM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: jjotto
Is there any actual work these guys are supposed to be doing or is this all they have to keep themselves busy?

THIS needs to be repeated over and over.

76 posted on 11/19/2018 12:06:24 PM PST by timestax
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To: jazusamo

Gonna be a hilarious TWO years to say the least.


77 posted on 11/19/2018 12:13:44 PM PST by Cheerio ( #44, the UNKNOWN Manchurian Candidate)
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To: FrankR

Thanks, FrankR!


78 posted on 11/19/2018 12:17:28 PM PST by pookie18
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To: Pravious
I guess Fox News has gone all CNN on us

For the past month, my Fox viewing has been whittled down to Lou Dobbs and Hannity's second half hour, after the daily repetitive marathon monologue. Also like Jesse Waters and Judge Jeanine on Saturday.

79 posted on 11/19/2018 12:19:49 PM PST by jersey117
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To: Digger
What is the GOP anyway?

Glorified Old Pussies

80 posted on 11/19/2018 12:37:24 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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