Posted on 05/12/2019 10:19:35 AM PDT by Innovative
Washington seems to be barreling toward a constitutional crisis.
Democrats are barraging President Trump with demands for witnesses and documents. Trump has answered by stonewalling, vowing to fight “all the subpoenas.”
As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned, Trump seems to be goading the Democratic-controlled House toward impeachment, perhaps because it’s a battle he thinks he can win.
Politicians on both sides are repairing to their tribal corners.
Is there anyone who can serve as honest referees in this partisan standoff?
One answer — don’t laugh — is lawyers. Specifically, Republican lawyers.
Even as Republicans in Congress have fallen in line to defend Trump at every turn, a surprising number of conservative lawyers have broken ranks and are condemning the president for abuses of power and denouncing his blanket claims of executive privilege.
Last week, John Yoo, the former Justice Department official who drafted a notorious memo justifying the torture of detainees under President George W. Bush, warned that Trump had gone too far in asserting unbridled presidential power.
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SPJNK.
We are talking George Will type conservatives.
The kind who prefer reacting or pandering to the Dems for approval.
We need to find a replacement word for “conservative,” because it’s been violated.
L.A. Times - Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
EggsAckley, you’re mentioned in post #13.
Unfortunately often those sets of unwavering principles is keeping the status quo (the Establishment LOVES those principles). Often so-called conservatives are flummoxed by the idea of disbanding the 80%+ unconstitutional portion of the feds and are often confused about the free market. Both upset the status quo.
Nobody REALLY knows what "conservatism" is other than supposedly being against the opposition. "Conservatism" thrives on what it is against. That falls way short of what we need to recover our beloved country.
[[Washington seems to be barreling toward a constitutional crisis.]]
The new catchphrase of they ear is now ‘Constitutional Crisis’- be prepared to hear that phrase day in and day out for, well, forever- liberals are obsessed with trump
Only conservative lawyer I am aware of speaking out about this is Levin. And he’s not saying any of that.
REALLY?
Dear Doyle McManus:
The President is kicking all y’alls asses.
Thanks for your opinion.
5.56mm
You beat me to it! These ‘conservative” guys want to keep their jobs with their liberal law firms and schools.
If you are a Republican, absolutely! Dont ya know the drill..Republicans are NOT allowed to defend themselves, meanwhile, Obama told his cronies to refuse to talk to the FBI and the commie media didnt say a peep
The LA Slimes still wont release the Rashid Khalidi tape of Obama at his house, its been over 10 years but I tell ya Im a patient gal
So interprets the LA Times.
rwood
Nobody REALLY knows what “conservatism” is other than supposedly being against the opposition.
That sounds disturbingly like libertarian,
so we’ll keep that to ourselves, OK? LOL
LOL.
Conway is a leading underemployed, overeating lawyer sitting at home late at night, waiting for his trim, successful wife who works for the most power man in the world.
Time for another ABSCAM project to clean the weeds from congress.
Thank you. The quicker we move away from the now meaningless word conservative the better.
None of the specific acts cited in the letter are actually illegal - and the investigation that Trump was allegedly trying to undermine did not find any underlying crime and was in fact an illegitimate investigation is several ways.
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