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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This guy must be GREAT!!!! I LOVE him MORE every time I read crap like this!! GO MATT!
OMG! Those three are an EMBARRASSAMENT!!
“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.
Sneaky pinkos trying to pull a fast one. Unamerican turds.
As should we all.
There's nothing democratic about the Democrat party.
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That’s a fact!
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“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.
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
“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?
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.
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.
Amen to that!
The Rats are scared, very scared. Like!
[The Democrats must really afraid of this guy!]
Apparently so.
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.
THIS needs to be repeated over and over.
Gonna be a hilarious TWO years to say the least.
Thanks, FrankR!
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.
Glorified Old Pussies
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