The House Democrats released a report on what’s being done in our name at the border. CNN has a summary here and links to a PDF of the complete report here. The report says 18 infants and toddlers under two years old were snatched from their parents and held “for 20 days to half a …
Impeach the Motherfucker!
Impeach the Motherfucker III
According to The Times, the U.S. is taking “more aggressive digital action” in Russia’s power grid “in a warning to Moscow and in a demonstration of its abilities,” explicitly to brush Putin back from further election interference. Yesterday afternoon, Ryan Goodman, professor and former special counsel to the DoD, highlighted this excerpt from The Times …
Tribe’s Impeachment Compromise
Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe wrote an op-ed for The Post suggesting a compromise that would allow the Impeach the Motherfucker NOW! crowd and Team Proceed Cautiously Because 2020 Is Everything to meet in the middle. The compromise is predicated on the notion that a House impeachment needn’t function explicitly as a prosecutor or grand …
ITMFA
This is the best piece I’ve read about impeachment lately – read the whole thing. For a long time, I was on the fence about impeachment. A couple of things that swayed me are mentioned in the article linked above. First, left to his own devices, Trump will drive the media narrative and suck up …
Friday Morning Open Thread: Everybody’s Talkin’ Bout It…
Brilliant. Hits the nail on the head. from @NewYorker pic.twitter.com/59CIOSbaNN — Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) May 31, 2019 "I had nothing to do with Russia helping me get elected." -Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States — Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 30, 2019 Are you allowed to impeach a president for gross incompetence? — …
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Thursday Morning Open Thread: Mueller Drops the Mic
“If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.” —Special Counsel Robert Mueller pic.twitter.com/PKqiufo6z4 — CAP Action (@CAPAction) May 29, 2019 The exact opposite of what Barr said in that initial letter, and what Republicans have said since. https://t.co/hI6FQ4KUcB — Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) May 29, …
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Justin Amash Backs Impeachment
In a long tweet thread, Republican congressman Justin Amash (Michigan) says that he feels that President Trump must be impeached. Here are my principal conclusions:1. Attorney General Barr has deliberately misrepresented Mueller’s report.2. President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct.3. Partisanship has eroded our system of checks and balances.4. Few members of Congress have read …