Posted on 11/16/2018 8:15:01 PM PST by tcrlaf
In a highly unusual move, lawyer Tom Goldstein asked the US Supreme Court on Friday evening to declare Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as the acting attorney general, instead of Matthew Whitaker who currently holds the job.
Goldstein also represented Maryland's Attorney General in a similar court filing at the district court level earlier this week. Goldstein's motion was filed in connection with a gun rights case that is before the Supreme Court as a petition for a writ of certiorari, meaning the nine Justices will meet in conference at a date still to be determined to decide whether to hear it. The case is Barry Michaels v. Whitaker, which was automatically renamed from Michaels v. Sessions following Whitaker's appointment. Since the attorney general is charged with enforcing all federal law, including the statutes in this gun rights case, the motion argues that the identity of the attorney general is imperative, and the rightful acting attorney general is Rod Rosenstein.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
>>The AG is the President’s employee...
The Boss makes the choice.
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In a sane world, yes. But look at what has recently transpired.
The President is in charge of the White House. A reporter became unruly, verbally and physically, and had his press pass revoked. The news network filed suit, and...
the judge ORDERED the reporter’s pass be reinstated.
Clearly overstepping, clearly unconstitutional, yet POTUS will “obey” the out-of-line judge.
So, now that we’re in banana republic territory, all bets are off.
GoldSTEIN
RosenSTEIN
are they cuzsins?
just FIRE Rosenstain, problem solved.
Maryland’s State’s Attorney General is a hardcore leftist named Brian Frosch. In the 1930’s, he would have made a great judge at Stalin’s “Show Trials”.
Goldstein defeats his own argument (and as a surrogate voice for Frosch) when it admits that the Vacancies Act is valid law.
Also, what this leftist ahole doesn’t realize is that if a court agrees that Trump should appoint Rosenstein as Acting AG (pending Senate confirmation), then Mueller is illegally holding his position as Special Counsel with all the rights and powers of a First Tier AG AND WOULD THEREFORE HAVE TO BE CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE.
His appointment, as argued by the Left, as an “inferior appointee” but with all the powers of the AG, would therefore be ILLEGAL/INVALID etc. and all his work would also be ILLEGAL and INVALID.
THANK YOU MARK LEVIN!!!.
I didn’t go to law school but did go to Paralegal School where we learned how to logically review a case and write up sound Tort case decisions.
The Mueller/Rosenstein relationship is, by sound logic, illegal and invalid because Rosenstein conferred AG powers on Mueller without any Senate confirmation, as required by law.
End of story. End of Goldstein and his puppetmaster Frosch, and possibly the end of Rosenstein’s fraudulent appointment of Mueller.
I think my law professors would be proud of me. They should be. They taught me very well (and if I told you who one was, a wonderful man, you’d crap in your pants. He was a most honorable person and I’m in his debt for being such a good teacher).
Anyone goes along with this? Public hanging on the DC mall at sunrise.
Ya never know. I don’t trust any black robed ego maniac.
The House has to agree to the Senate recessing, too, and that won’t happen. The Senate has not recessed since 2010 and it is not going to happen now.
What are the Swamp dwellers and their associates hiding that they’re so afraid of having exposed they are going to the extreme to get this president out of office? This goes beyond just wanting to reclaim their lost power!
The present House will agree to the recess.
There’s 3 or 4 bills that have to be passed first to keep the gov open.
I thought Roddy was a goner....he keeps on hanging on and I have to wonder why....
LOL!!! Goldstein is NUTSO!
The State Bar should yank his license. The idiot doesn’t even realize that SCOTUS doesn’t appoint people in the Executive branch. SCOTUS will flush this down the toilet.
A recess appointment is only good until the new Congress begins in January 2019.
Recess appointment is good til the END of the next session.
Article II, section 2
3: The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.
cant wait until acting ag starts kicking ass, crickets, swamp sounds and laughing, so their man buns are in a
hissy fit, i want to see why, so far more nothing.. its not that hard, show me the law
The left can’t win legally/lawfully, because everything they want to have/do, is wrong.. off the chart.. So they win by these things they think up and then put into action by their apponted left judges, or just plain stealing like these recounts for the midterms.
To think they would advocate that rosenstein is more qualified to be AG .. is to say he would deal with the same corruption the left has to have to succeed in their messes. To have an AG who would cite the constitution or the laws.. would not be acceptable to the left. To do anything that helps Trump... is off limits.
Can you imagine obama having an AG who was after him, trying to find reasons to get him removed? No, they had their corrupt AG and the left was fine with it.
The divide is not from this side.. it’s from the left trying to have complete control and doing whatever it takes to get it.
Vacancies Act was signed by Bubba Clinton. Those silly Dems are hitting their heads against a wall.
Its time to plan for another revolution
ok what’s with all the steins?
rosenstein, goldstein, weinstein
Doesn’t seem constitutional to me that the president would be required to appoint a deputy Attorney General who had accrued during his tenure many questionable disqualifications. That does not seem to comport with the president being the chief executive officer under the Constitution. His hands should not be tied. He should not be forced to appoint someone who is conflicted, perhaps even with grave legal concerns. That seems like the AG succesion protocol is the law that is unconstitutional. A chief executive should have flexibility to appoint a replacement that has no legal problems or other disqualifications.
Ah yes, a Judicial Republic.
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