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U of M Professor, Former White House Lawyer Explains Why He's Suing President Trump
KSTP.com ^ | 1/27/17 | Josh Rosenthal

Posted on 01/27/2017 7:38:39 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo

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To: Strac6

You mean they ‘deserve’ not ‘ask’ for Rule 11 Sanctions. Right?


41 posted on 01/27/2017 9:12:52 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Hostage

Yes, and demand them early.

My approach to litigation was always one of two things, depending on what the other side “deserved.”

If they had legitimate arguable case, my approach was always, “Let’s be adults... and work to find a common ground.... and I will be too unless, in the rare case, your client becomes childish, at which time I will work to destroy your case and your client.”

That attitude, and reputation, moved a lot of cases to reasonable settlements before there was even a filing.

If on the other hand, they opened with foolishness such as this, it was “make the opposition client regret the day their mother first smiled at their father” from day one.

One of my favorite was lis pendens petitions and pre-verdict, even pre-trial demands for certified financial accountings and their last 7 years 1099s from the plaintiff to demonstrate that the P had the financial capability to pay our extensive legal fees that a verdict might well impose on them.

Didn’t get those accountings approved too often, but it always did get the Ps attention, and a lot of dropped cases.


42 posted on 01/27/2017 9:26:50 PM PST by Strac6 ("We sleep safe in our beds only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on the enemy.")
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To: a fool in paradise

Not only does he not have standing but the USSC has ruled on numerous occasions that these type of cases are purely a political issue that needs to resolved by the legislative and the Executive Branch. The solutions are, (as I see it),; impeachment or a constitutional amendment.


43 posted on 01/27/2017 9:27:59 PM PST by usnavy_cop_retired (Retiree in the P.I. living as a legal immigrant)
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To: a fool in paradise

Sitting Presidents are immune to lawsuits. Think about it, if they weren’t immune, fighting lawsuits is all the govt would do.

If he files, he has to file against the US Federal Govt. And they may be the plan, he’s just playing it up as best he can.


44 posted on 01/27/2017 9:30:41 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

No problem. Get the consent of the majority GOP Congress. That is part of the law. 51 votes thanks to Harry Reid.


45 posted on 01/27/2017 9:44:53 PM PST by doug from upland (Are we dreaming or is Hillary finally really gone?)
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To: goodnesswins

Brock was out in December.


46 posted on 01/27/2017 9:48:16 PM PST by doug from upland (Are we dreaming or is Hillary finally really gone?)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

It has to be profits. Otherwise, every foreign government in the world could book rooms and hold conferences in Trump hotels, filling them and running them into bankruptcy.


47 posted on 01/27/2017 9:50:38 PM PST by Freee-dame (Drain the swamp!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

i think the senate already ok’d this scenario.


48 posted on 01/27/2017 9:51:39 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

The answer, of course, couldn’t be simpler: he’s a dyed-in-the-wool Leftist and he wants to throw a monkey wrench into the Trump works.

Anythying else is empty rhetoric.


49 posted on 01/27/2017 10:03:51 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Strac6

Interesting and insightful. The Trump lawyers should give you a call.

Melania is making progress on her libel case.

I love the way the Trump network fights back, never letting a foe get an inch.


50 posted on 01/27/2017 10:16:43 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: dsc; Maceman
Yes, but there is always a client, too.

...and if not, we'll advertise for one!

51 posted on 01/27/2017 10:18:44 PM PST by gogeo (But he's not a conserrrrrvative!)
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To: gogeo

“...and if not, we’ll advertise for one!”

There’s a good deal of truth in that, but I have seen lawyers engaged in righteous missions.


52 posted on 01/27/2017 10:23:59 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc

Me too.


53 posted on 01/27/2017 10:43:34 PM PST by gogeo (But he's not a conserrrrrvative!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

key phrase “without the Consent of the Congress”.

Congress has given consent before, enacting the Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act, which authorizes federal employees to accept foreign governmental benefits of various kinds in specific circumstances.

There is bill in the House, sponsored by the RATS, denying congressional consent for Trump.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-joint-resolution/26/titles


54 posted on 01/27/2017 10:54:47 PM PST by stylin19a (The air I am breathing seems to be a little freer today.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Trump should sue him for 10 billion dollars for defamation and about a hundred other suits that will cost him every cent Soros has to defend him.


55 posted on 01/27/2017 11:06:12 PM PST by TonyM
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To: Eddie01
Not sure U of M wants this attention.

Universidad of Mexico? Undead of Munchkinland?

56 posted on 01/27/2017 11:32:33 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (Folks ask about my politics. I say: I dont belong to any organized political party. I'm a Republican)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Trump is right.

Paying bills for services are not emoluments.

Our first presidents did not sell off their businesses whn president, they returned to them after their terms were over.

Ridiculous.


57 posted on 01/27/2017 11:33:01 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Thank you for that post. I had thought that Trump had divested (or whatever word is used) of his various businesses for the time-being and put them into trusts. Of course there is still the risk of shady business going on that would ultimately benefit Mr. Trump.

And from the article I was thinking “Yeah - it would be easy enough for some foreigner to write a check for $500,000 for his one night and mark it as “hotel accommodations”. But in your post you highlight that would be taken into account as a profit.

BTW - I thought all foreigners hated Trump./s Why would they want to give him money, much less stay in a hotel with his name on the front door!?

58 posted on 01/27/2017 11:34:54 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: Strac6

“Let’s be adults... and work to find a common ground...”

I know a lawyer that was like this. (He made his money and changed careers. He is getting ordained as a Christian Minister soon!)

I recall after one large case was wrapped up (corporate law) and I asked him how it went.

“Well, after all was said and done we arrived at a pretty reasonable compromise. But, well ...
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it was a compromise.”


59 posted on 01/27/2017 11:41:31 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Obama infamously broke this clause twice in a big way (accepting the now-derided award of the Nobel Peace Prize, and sitting as chair of the UNSC) and none of these people said anything. Suddenly they found their copies of the Constitution...


60 posted on 01/27/2017 11:48:20 PM PST by thoughtomator (Purple: the color of sedition)
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