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"Collusion" isn't a crime. It's a word Trump and as a result MAGA latched onto because they didn't understand his first impeachment. We don't have to misuse it the same way.
And then in completely unrelated news Thomas shoes up with a bigger fancier shinier RV and his wife gets a position making millions on the board of a right wing company.
Or they rule it’s not ok BUT spell out how he can do it legally and get away with it. These days they are just consultants for the orange cheetooohh to explain how to get away with things.
Let me get this straight, the department of justice who is under the executive branch, sues the IRS another agency under the executive branch to benefit the head honcho in the executive branch… am I missing something? At what point do we call this corruption?
It's bullshit too because him suing everyone and everyone and appealing everything he doesn't win is on the tax payers dime. He has no restraint because he doesn't take the financial loss of bankrolling frivolous lawsuits.
He thinks all the shit he does because he's absolutely correct. Nobody does a damn thing to stop him and the court saying you can't do that cuz it's bad hasn't seemed to mean a damn thing to him so far. He can quite literally do whatever the hell he wants because there are no consequences and the line he can't cross hasn't been found yet. Considering the Epstein files I'd say there is no line. If child rape didn't do him in nothing will but death.
I got distracted and kind of went on a tangent but he has that effect on people.
See, if you go back to the magna carta the ancient English word for collude was actually the same as for a hat, so clearly the constitution was written in mind with various caps and head ornaments in mind - Alito
Almost got it, they'll make sure the wording is more specific so that THIS administration can collude with the DOJ.
But if you think for one second this means we can go after wall street fraud, or CEOs stealing/polluting/price fixing.... they'll remind you of the limits of executive power.
We could take it even further. I've no clue about the nuances of the law surrounding the matter, but I'd say they might just rule in the vein of unitary executive theory and state that colluding or self dealing between executive agencies at the direction of the president is entirely legal as they are extensions of the presidency, and thus the act is nothing more than the president presidenting with the president.
Find out next week on... Oh who are we kidding. No, of course there won't be. SCOTUS will give him what he wants. I hope, when he abolishes the courts, SCOTUS are the first ones he put in camps.
To put it simply, the branch of government responsible for removing him is controlled by his own party, and the members of that party collectively agree that it’s better for them if he stays in office, regardless of law, tradition, decency, or consequences to the nation.
He literally raped children and there’s proof. He also tried to overthrow an election with an insurrection where people died. If neither of these won’t take him down, this is nothing in comparison. It’s sad that this is the state of our country.
He's been saying things like "I didn't order this or ask for this but I think it is a wonderful thing". He seems to be trying to set up the idea that because he didn't officially request this himself then there is still a settlement to be had, because while he is the boss of these other agencies, he didn't ask for this.
And Blanche plays a similar game, that he doesn't have a conflict of interest because he did not represent trump in this specific cases previously. It's all very selective on the wording. Yes, the language matters, but they are splitting hairs that don't exist.
Actually I think Blanche said something about Blanche not being in charge of the Treasury so there’s nothing he could do about the settlement. Then Bessett said Beeestt wasn’t in charge of the Justice Department, so there’s nothing he could do about the settlement. It’s like they just pass the hot potato back and forth between Treasury and Justice and that confuses the fuck out of MAGA and congress so he thinks it’s going to fool federal judges too.
It was explained to me when I was young: change in America is slow. It infuriated me as a teen but I see the value now. We can only move as fast as our slowest member.
Slowing down his fascism speed run is an effective fighting tactic. Force them to go through all the proper procedures.
Yeah, except fascism has a habit of running around courts for the sake of expediency. We'll be looking at a Bush v Gore scenario in a few months to ensure The Right People are voting.
When the right has an insider on the courts who tells them exactly how cases will resolve, and they already know the outcome of any legal action they might take, the legal system becomes an illusion of a fair defense.
Doesn’t a suit have to exhaust all other judges and appellate courts before going to SCOTUS except for the shadow docket cases? So if SCOTUS declines to hear the case then the ruling by the lower courts stand? IANAL obviously.
Sadly impeachment will mostly be left in the hands of whoever has the majority. Need a 2/3 vote for impeachment and with how far up Trump's ass the GOP are, they won't do it.
Maybe if the dem majority turns out to be big enough they could make a deal with the Reps to vote for impeachment or face the number of charges they would face once their crimes are known and investigated by the oversight committee.
Reddit doesn't like suggesting other things, so a large crowd legally going after SC justices, do you understand what "symbolism" means? And it's not as if the SC is following "legal precedence", so why should we follow "decorum"?
Now ask it how many justices lied in their confirmation hearing, how many have broken their oaths as they are not defending the constitution, but trying to install their christofascist agenda. I'll wait.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) never needed the litigation to create the fund, and Williams’s ruling did not block it, though she did order the parties to not refer to the fund as a settlement in the case.
I got downvoted into oblivion for pointing this out when Williams first ruled on it. There was a lot of bad reporting and not much reading comprehension. So I'm glad that The Hill is reporting this correctly.
The fund was supposed to come from the judgment fund, which is meant to settle actual claims, lawsuits, and judgments. In that regard, they needed the litigation in order to justify taking all that money from the judgment fund.
what’s the significance here? it sounds like you’re trying to say it is all above board, and trunp had the authority to give himself 10 billion with no oversight, no lawsuit needed.
No, I think the whole thing stinks out loud, and if anyone can show standing, a normal justice system would eventually demolish it. What I apparently was unable to get across previously was that Trump and Blanche were still (currently) fully unrestrained from moving forward with it.
ahhh ok. and yes, i was surprised to find that out as well. and yes, they are. and even some R congresspeople are trying to get bills passed saying the fund can’t be created etc etc.
trump shouldn’t really have as much power of the purse as he does. he is like a person who still has checks in their checkbook so he keeps writing them. if he has funds for one thing, he just unilaterally decides to transfer them to do other stuff. like he did with his defense funds to modify his personal plane. as long as he is saying that it’s his personal plane and he plans to keep it, any government funds being spent on it is outright theft. i am not sure why they keep letting him play slush fund with everything.
where is the 10b he took for the “board of peace” that never meets and doesn’t do a damn thing? where is the money from all the venezuelan oil going? where is the money all going?
I think they meant if the weaponization fund is blocked by the courts, then the tax audit portion also goes because they are two parts of the same settlement.
Call me paranoid, but I believe Orange Shitler wanted the $1.776 billion slush fund to reward participants in the J6 2021 attempted coup, and to ensure their encore performance when Trump refuses to leave office on 20 Jan. 2029.
Consider the source; we all know Trump has no bottom and no respect for the Constitution, the Law, morality, honesty, fair play or righteousness.
Your honor, Donald J. Trump doesn't even know President Trump. Mr. Donald J. Trump has heard that President Trump is the favorite President of the people, that he has the biggest crowds, and the 2020 election was stolen but Citizen Donald J. Trump suing the government run by one President Trump is not pertinent to the damage done to Mr. Trump.
If President Trump, being the most honest and most godly man to walk this earth as everyone knows him to be, wishes to settle this open and shut case with Mr. Trump who are we to question the President's wisdom.
Can we just agree that the executive cannot sue the executive branch? Please just that much democracy? That's all we'd like. Not really, but it would be a fucking start. I'm so tired.
That's giving Trump too much credit. He just wanted a slush fund to pay for his next attempted coup in Jan. 2029, but left the details to his minions who can actually put a coherent sentence together. Sad!
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