“Presidents are not kings, & Plaintiff is not President,” wrote U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan as she denied Trump’s executive privilege claims in an attempt to stonewall the committee.
35 people have been called before the Select Committee and the latest subpoena that could lead to an indictment is for Mark Meadows, who likely will stonewall investigators. These will be preliminaries to much more serious DoJ charges as the process of prosecuting insurrectionists finishes up with lesser maniacs.
For the time being, a temporary administrative injunction means that the committee will have to wait at least a while longer to receive the documents — arguments before the DC Circuit Court of Appeals are set for November 30 — but experts say the case is moving quickly by the standards of federal courts, a blow to Trump’s efforts to run out the clock.
Specifically, Chutkan’s decision was delivered just 23 days after Trump filed suit, according to the New York Times; in contrast, it took a district court more than three months to rule on a 2019 effort to compel former White House Counsel Don McGahn to testify regarding Trump’s efforts to obstruct the Russia investigation.
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Between that (Bannon) case and the threat of indictment now hovering over intransigent former Trump administration officials — and with Trump and the GOP removed from power at least until the 2022 midterm elections — there’s a real possibility that Trump’s favorite tactic, stonewalling, won’t be as effective a shield for him as it has been previously.
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Moscow Mitch reminds SCOTUS who owns some of their seats, so even if Trump’s not king, the law is a GOP fiefdom.
Aspiring right-wing political figure and Hillbilly Elegy enthusiast J.D. Vance introduced a new terminology in a tweet this week, notoriously suggesting Black men are “wolves” who “set fire to their communities,” and defended Rittenhouse as a boy without a father whose “human nature” told him to “go and defend what no one else is defending.” Not content with his racist dog whistle, Vance also exercised some good ol’ fashioned antisemitism to suggest Rittenhouse, and other culture warriors like him, are fighting “global monopolists,” otherwise known as “The Jews” to white supremacists and modern Republicans. www.yahoo.com/...
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