Posted on 11/12/2019 3:59:54 AM PST by Olog-hai
White House acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney plans to file his own lawsuit over testimony in the House impeachment inquiry, withdrawing his bid to join a separate case filed last month by a former Trump adviser, his attorneys said Monday.
The plans were revealed in a court filing in which Mulvaney abandoned his earlier request to become part of a suit by Charles Kupperman, President Donald Trump’s former deputy national security adviser.
Lawyers for Mulvaney had asked Friday evening to join that lawsuit, saying his case presented similar legal issues to that of Kupperman. But they switched course following a conference call Monday afternoon in which a federal judge said he was not inclined to grant the request.
The lawyers said they instead plan to file their own lawsuit, seeking the court’s guidance on whether Mulvaney must follow a subpoena from Congress directing him to testify or an order from the White House that he not appear. …
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I don’t remember.
I can’t recall.
At this point, what difference does it make.
BTW, all my electronic devices have been wiped clean and/or destroyed....My bad.
He has already stood at the podium in the White House and discussed this issue. Hard to say its Executive privelege if you’ve done a press conference on the subject.
Folks, get ready for a re-play of the Justice Kavanagh hearings, with the same outcome.
Why a problem over Executive Privilege because parts of a topic have been discussed?
Classified manuals are generally under 20% as far as classified content - because one has discussed some of the unclassified info doesn’t mean the manual isn’t still classified and not to be discussed....
“Outside my purview”
The committee wants its camel’s nose under the tent to get at things he didn’t say on the podium.
It will be interesting to see if Soros opens his checkbook for AstroTurfed demonstrations.
As the House is requesting to interrogate an administration advisor, so the House managers should be made aware the Senate will permit the President to interrogate House staffers accused of conspiring with the original “whistleblower.”
Besides,...what "subpoena"?
Why bother having a Fifth Amendment if you aren’t going to use it?
“BTW, all my electronic devices have been wiped clean and/or destroyed....My bad.”
https://youtu.be/TwiMjLX_ABQ “Watch CNN anchor’s disbelief that Clinton aides destroyed phones with hammer”
One of those subpoenaed went to court to challenge it and the Dem’s withdrew it. And I’m pretty sure they’ve already admitted that there is no legal basis for them, so they can’t enforce anything. I remember seeing an article on Breitbart about that.
On top of that, subpoenas don’t really carry all that much weight in a courtroom, other than to make you show up. But, you also have the right to challenge them prior to showing up and make the other side prove that there is an investigation going on, you’re involved in a significant way, and you also get to plead the 5th, if/when you sit down.
And, as the Dem’s are saying, this isn’t a full blown, formal impeachment investigation, no one is under any legal authority, required to show up. Basically the Dem’s are asking folks to come talk and masking that request by using the term, subpoena.
They have nothing. But all their willing sycophants are showing up, saying nothing even after being coached, or saying what they think the President may have said since they didn’t hear it directly and the Dem’s can strut that people are showing up to testify. What they’re doing is no different than a detective calling someone up and asking them to come to the station and talk. That person says, NOPE. They threaten a subpoena. The person still says, NOPE. They don’t call that person anymore.
Any experienced detective and UNBIASED ADA could get on tv and crush Schiff and the rest and how they’re abusing criminal procedure rules and rules of the court, but that person wouldn’t get a sniff. And as smart as Jarrett is on Fox, he’s on Fox and won’t/can’t go near any other network. So he preaches to the choir, as they all do.
Shocking, I tell ya!!! Oh the horror.
What baffles me about that and why Comey should go down for Obstruction, if not more, is he was the FBI Director. Did it come out that he authorized the destruction of the devices? If so, nowhere does he have the authority to authorize such a thing. That would be like a Police Chief or Sheriff authorizing that bloody sheets and hammer can be destroyed if the investigation closes without an arrest. The “evidence” gets turned back over to its owner. He has no say in any of that. Only time evidence is destroyed is after a trial, which results in a conviction and neither party claims it or something like a murder weapon was involved.
And as arrogant as those folks were, I’m betting that if they got their stuff back, they would have kept it, thinking it would never come back to bite them. Which it won’t, but they still would have been dumb enough to hold onto those items.
“”””””BTW, all my electronic devices have been wiped clean and/or destroyed....My bad.”””””””””””””””
Like with a cloth?
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