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Bland Crumbs said:
Watching the contempt debate is kind of hilarious:
GOP - We asked for the recording. There is a transcript but we just want the recording because recorded evidence is better than a transcript. No you cannot exert executive privilege because you released the transcript already.

Dems- BUT TRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMP is a felon!

It is fucking unreal
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You know, in hindsight, it's appropriate that the Democrat mascot is a donkey because they're all jackasses that are stuborn as a mule.
 
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Trump continues to show off his TikTok skills:
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Meanwhile in Biden land, they have some soy creature promoting "Trump's" policies (Project 2025 was not created by the Trump campaign) to a tiny fraction of the viewers:
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quaawaa said:
Trump continues to show off his TikTok abilities:
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Holy fuck, that Biden meme attempt is so fucking lame. I don't even think vanilla ass swiftie white bitches could watch that without rolling their eyes.

The left can't meme.
 
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quaawaa said:
Meanwhile in Biden land, they have some soy creature promoting "Trump's" policies (Project 2025 was not created by the Trump campaign) to a tiny fraction of the viewers:
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Biden's attempt at a meme attack is pathetic. The Project 2025 scaremongering has already been done among the diehard Blue crowd and the way they frame it is way too partisan to actually impact the message with the centrists and undecided they are desperate to court. I mean, putting "Jan 6th Pardons" and "withdrawing from Paris Climate Accord" in the same level as "National Abortion Ban" and "Deploy the military against US Citizens" is just a massive optics misfire. It makes the later, far more important points look like the lies and exaggeration they are.

If anything they are helping Project 2025 get real power and influence on Trump's 2nd Term.
 
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Someone got paid for making that image?
 
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ACLJ was saying that Thomas's separate statement had an important bit.
Since this was thrown out on standing, that the individual affected needs to sue, not the group doing it on a hypothetical person or persons, this would mean that Planned Parenthood and others wouldn't be able to sue on behalf of miscellaneous women seeking abortions, which is apparently a big method of operation for getting abortion law rulings.
 
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The DOJ has laid out its Garland protection strategy.

DOJ memo says Garland cannot be prosecuted for contempt over Biden-Hur audio​

An internal Justice Department (DOJ) memo argued Attorney General Merrick Garland would be protected from prosecution for contempt of Congress given President Biden’s assertion of executive privilege over audio tapes Republicans have sought by subpoena.

The 57-page memo from the department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), obtained by The Hill, lays out the case for Garland’s refusal to turn over the audio of Biden’s conversation with special counsel Robert Hur. The GOP already has a transcript of the interview.

The OLC, which operates as a legal adviser for the department, wrote that no administration official has been prosecuted for failing to comply with a subpoena when the president has claimed executive privilege.

“For nearly seven decades and across presidential administrations of both parties, the Executive Branch has taken the position that the criminal contempt of Congress statute … does not apply to Executive Branch officials who do not comply with a congressional subpoena based on a presidential assertion of executive privilege,” according to the memo.

“Consistent with this longstanding position, no U.S. Attorney has pursued criminal contempt charges against an Executive Branch official asserting the President’s claim of executive privilege.”

The memo lays out in detail the response that Congress is likely to get from the Justice Department if it chooses to recommend contempt for Garland in a Wednesday vote. Contempt of Congress largely serves as a recommendation to the Justice Department, which must then weigh whether to bring charges.

Republicans have fumed over Garland’s decision not to turn over the audio of Biden’s interview after the DOJ shared the transcript with the House Oversight and Judiciary committees.

“The president has waived any executive privilege over these audio recordings by releasing a transcript of the entire interview to the public,”

House Oversight and Accountability Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said during a House Rules Committee meeting Tuesday.

But the OLC refuted that argument in the memo.

“Because the committees have the transcripts of the special counsel’s interviews, the needs the committees have articulated for the recordings are plainly insufficient to overcome a privilege claim grounded in these important separation of powers concerns,” according to the memo.

“The audio recording will not reveal any information relevant to the committees’ stated needs that is not available in the transcripts.”

Garland had resisted sharing the transcripts, expressing concern it could chill the Justice Department’s ability to get cooperation with witnesses who would oppose having their conversations shared with Congress.

And in a separate legal battle from outside groups seeking the audio, the Justice Department argued sharing the audio created the risk for manipulation.

Congressional Democrats have also argued that the GOP wants the tapes for campaign commercials ahead of the election.

GOP members, meanwhile, contend that hearing Biden’s response to questions could illuminate Hur’s comments about the president’s memory and offer insights into his mental acuity.

“The memo reaffirms the executive branch’s long standing position that the criminal contempt of Congress statute does not apply, and could not constitutionally be applied, to executive branch officials who do not comply with a Congressional subpoena based on a presidential assertion of executive privilege,” the memo stated.
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Breadbassket said:
57-page memo
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Breadbassket said:
The DOJ has laid out its Garland protection strategy.
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GoP has to go to court against the executive priv bullshit like today. How can you claim privilege over something that you released in another form. I guess Garland is above the law.

Also Massie just said they should release the names of who received money from the Congressional Sexual Misconduct Slush Fund looool That is amazing.

Holy shit Swalwell is such a fucking moron. He just reminded anyone watching this hearing about all the people the DNC has attacked over the last few years. The depths of his stupidity are truly unending.
 
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Dr J said:
In which case Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro should both be freed, or Garland sent to prison
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But you see it is different with a D.

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I am watching the Bragg Trial Hearings and it is pretty funny. 90% of the Dem's have just barked orange man bad until one genius compared the Trump charges to Edwards when the cases are totally incomparable.

Edwards was charged with:
Lying to the FEC, accepting and receiving illegal contributions, and trying to hide those contributions from the FEC.

No such charges were levied against Trump.

Trump was convicted of:
Using his own money to pay a whore to shut the fuck up in the effort to hide another criminal act.

Slightly different.
 
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