No matter what you think about the impeachment procedure, the White House does not have the option of refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas. It just doesn't.
This alone is impeachable. The separation of powers, rule of law...indeed the entire constitutional order could be at stake.
Let us hope this is another Trump bluff.
Link: https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1181677820574982144
It worked well in the Mueller investigation. The Mueller Report made clear that critical witnesses refused to cooperate with the investigation.
There is a reason why Trump buries phone calls with foreign leaders in a code word protected vault. And no, it has nothing to do with national security issues.
Re Ukraine, Trump’s play is to delay, distract, and deny deny deny, hoping to exhaust the public’s appetite and attention span for the impeachment inquiry.
Transparency = Death for Trump. Anyone who does not appreciate the real reason Trump seeks to bury the communications and stonewall its production, is a dupe.
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Answer all questions.
Trump + Pompeo + Barr + senior officials + West Wing staff, have exposure here, possibly far reaching beyond the Ukraine scandal.
The most disturbing part of the story is that no American stood up in real time and told Trump how wrong it was to ask Ukraine for help in “investigating” Biden and/or feeding a false narrative that Ukraine (not Russia) hacked our 2016 election. Rather, it was a young Ukraine President who made clear that Ukraine was not going to be a tool.
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"A Congressional committee must meet three requirements for its subpoenas to be 'legally sufficient.' First, the committee's investigation of the broad subject area must be authorized by its chamber; second, the investigation must pursue 'a valid legislative purpose' but does not need to involve legislation and does not need to specify the ultimate intent of Congress; and third, the specific inquiries must be pertinent to the subject matter area that has been authorized for investigation." Wilkinson v. United States.
So, in this case an impeachment inquiry is under the jurisdiction of the Judiciary committee not the Intelligence committee. Moreover, there has been no authorization by the House to conduct an Impeachment investigation. Finally, there has been no particular subject matter specifically authorized at all.
The answer: HOLD A VOTE!
They are afraid of politically exposing their moderates in purple districts. Sigh.
If we get a China trade deal... the economy thrives, the electorate is content and adverse to changing horses, and the game is over. The far left's screeching will only generate a landslide.
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allowance of GOP subpoena witnesses, etc.
Before you give me canned MSM responses that you have been fed, think.
Do you REALLY think the US has an appetite for a one sided kangaroo court from a group that is already on record as saying that they would impeach BEFORE they even invented a reason? From a group that lied about their contact with the WB before the complaint was filed. From a group still looking likebuffoons because of Mueller and Russia, Russia, Russia?
Are you personally this out of touch with reality to think this is wise? Do you personally think it won’t fully discredit your efforts?
The constitution doesn't say It's Nancy Pelosi or a few house leaders that have power of impeachment.
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How wrong you were. It’s all about the Supremes. Elections have consequences. Go to bed every night and pray that RBG doesn’t kick the bucket.
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You see, it all started when R's called D's unpatriotic when we said there were no WMD in Iraq then W Bush admin wouldn't
provide armored vehicles in Afghanistan for US military and wouldn't provide up to date body armor for the soldiers
thus allowing our men and women in combat to exposed to far worse conditions...
The D's were right on both counts and once again you R's are wrong and it will be the same all over again.
you never get it right yet you vilify D's for everything you are. Go home boy.
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