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Supreme Court will take up Trump’s broad claims of protection from investigation
WAPO ^ | Dec. 13, 2019 at 4:31 p.m. | Rob Barnes

Posted on 12/13/2019 1:46:21 PM PST by entropy12

The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will take up President Trump’s broad claims of protection from investigation, raising the prospect of a landmark election-year ruling on the limits of presidential power.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: abortion; brettkavanaugh; districtofcolumbia; jeffbezos; maga; robbarnes; scotus; taxes; trump; trumpscotus; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: Fai Mao

And the media purports if one is running for president, other candidates are never allowed to investigate evidence of wrong-doing. The evidence is on video by Joe Biden bragging about how he got the prosecutor fired in 6 hours by using the leverage of $1 Billion foreign aid to Ukraine.


121 posted on 12/14/2019 7:48:17 AM PST by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or for government price fixing. Can't be for both as convenient.)
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To: offduty

Apparently brilliant minds think alike. I posted my response before I read down thread saw your response.


122 posted on 12/14/2019 7:49:07 AM PST by BOBWADE (WWG1WGA)
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To: entropy12

Sounds like the timing is perfect to release findings of the investigation of U1 and the Clinton Foundation. If charges were pending, use of executive privilege covering the time that she was in office might also be covered by this ruling.


123 posted on 12/14/2019 7:53:44 AM PST by BOBWADE (WWG1WGA)
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To: BOBWADE

“Brilliant”... maybe not so much on my part, but I’m willing to accept that observation until I make a bone-head response.

The big question on this is how far-reaching the Court is willing to go. This could reign in the Legislative branch quite severely. I think the abuse is so blatant and obvious even Chief Justice Roberts may be hard pressed to side with the minority (if there even is one).


124 posted on 12/14/2019 7:59:15 AM PST by offduty
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To: entropy12

That’s why they’re running the worst of it through Congress which has no such restriction.


125 posted on 12/14/2019 8:22:48 AM PST by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: Gene Eric

They’re really pissed (Bezos) that Amazon didn’t get the cloud deal they were do to get from the Obozos people.


126 posted on 12/14/2019 8:30:40 AM PST by V V Camp Enari 67-68 (Viet Vet)
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To: entropy12

He should negotiate a contract with those that want to see his returns, that they must disclose both their income from all sources, as well as what they paid in taxes.

They’ll drop that quick.


127 posted on 12/14/2019 9:14:29 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Maybe I don’t understand the article, but I don’t see winning here — yet. Maybe later, depending on how SCOTUS rules ...?


That represents a fair understanding.


128 posted on 12/14/2019 9:17:19 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Maybe I don’t understand the article, but I don’t see winning here — yet. Maybe later, depending on how SCOTUS rules ...?


That represents a fair understanding.

I think the argument here though is about other concepts, like the one that the courts are the arbitrators of this stuff - which in-effect slams the Obstruction of Congress charge yet again.


129 posted on 12/14/2019 9:18:51 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks entropy12.

130 posted on 12/14/2019 10:28:41 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: offduty

I agree with your take on it.

Judges are pretty vindictive if they think you have lied to them.

It’s simply unfathomable that the FISA Court judge hasn’t hauled the FBI agents butts back into court to answer for their actions.

If you or I pulled this nonsense, we’d face year behind bars.


131 posted on 12/14/2019 11:58:07 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Pledge: "...and to the Democracy for which it stands..." I give up. Use the democRat meme...)
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To: BOBWADE

I agree.


132 posted on 12/14/2019 11:58:34 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Pledge: "...and to the Democracy for which it stands..." I give up. Use the democRat meme...)
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To: entropy12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

Why you should never talk to the police. May God bless America.
Please Mr. President, take the 5th Amendment!


133 posted on 12/14/2019 12:43:46 PM PST by Concentrate (ex-texan was right and Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

“This President has been HARASSED more than any in the last 50+ years. “

He’s not one of them. He’s not a pedophile or a pedophile supporter. That’s why they hate him so much.


134 posted on 12/14/2019 1:06:57 PM PST by Concentrate (ex-texan was right and Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election.)
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To: plain talk

They also want the financial records of Billy Bob Newberry, a 200 cattle spread in Wyoming, with one 1989 Ford pickup truck, one backhoe tractor, and his wife has a 12 year old SUV. Billy Bob’s crime is he and his family for the past 100 years has voted for America and freedom. They hate him for it and thus want to drag him down and ruin him financially for his voting record. (You, me and all here can change Billy Bob’s name and insert ours and our background in the blocks above. Because we are like Billy Bob. The left hates us. Tough knockers you leftists.)


135 posted on 12/15/2019 6:21:41 AM PST by RetiredArmy (The Bible tells us the happenings of the Last Days. Those days are HERE! Deny it at your own peril)
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To: plain talk

“I don’t trust John Roberts.”

Great point. I only thing I trust about him is that he will make the wrong decision at the right time. Some of the twisted “logic” he uses is actually taught in law schools today.


136 posted on 12/15/2019 6:33:33 AM PST by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: plain talk

They are so desperate to find something on him.

He should agree to release his records when every dem and liberal that’s demanding it releases theirs.


137 posted on 12/15/2019 6:14:49 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: entropy12

Bookmark.


138 posted on 12/16/2019 2:54:41 AM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: offduty

I think the problem for President Trump is that presidential candidates for decades have submitted their tax returns for several years. When I ran for political office I had to list various things, including real estate I owned, which I would have preferred to not declare to the world for fear of vandalism, etc.


139 posted on 12/17/2019 11:49:11 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

Candidates have voluntarily submitted returns, but there is no requirement the returns are disclosed.

IIRC, the only disclosure is a financial statement which shows assets within a range. If there was an underlying criminal probe, that would be a different matter, but just disclosure so Dems can look for political advantage is exactly the same conduct they are trying to impeach him for.


140 posted on 12/18/2019 7:03:14 AM PST by offduty
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