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Excellent post, Mim. This statement was especially telling:
I cannot express the feelings this generates in me. I cry for our country, our constitution, and our liberty.
That’s chapter 8639 in my book of everything I learned in law school has been crapped upon since Obama became president.
Time to go scortched earth. The Senate should start with subpoenaing records of Democrats. Does anyone think Pelosi’s husband’s business transactions are any cleaner than Trump’s? How about Obama’s mother’s passport records? Obama’s college and law school applications?
I understand the sentiment. Believe me, I. DO.
But I think it’s time to go Trump…as in be brutally honest about what’s going on, including in our everyday lives. Every American who recognizes what this is should be flooding their members of Congress with complaints about their lack of fortitude in denouncing this act by the Democrat-controlled House. And it wouldn’t hurt to express to the SCOTUS displeasure with the federal judicial overreach here.
I say that because my first reaction upon hearing this was the same as @rodin: to cry. These people care only about the winning, the controlling. Even some conservatives who dislike Trump intensely have been convinced that he is so bad, circumventing procedure and protocol…and now the law…is justified. I don’t want to be convinced that the Left is so bad we who love what our Constitution stands for have to throw it away.
I still have faith in ordinary Americans…that they will see and know what is happening and rue the day some of them ever gave power to the schmucks who are flushing it all down the drain just to Get Trump. Personally, I think this weaponization of govt against those who disagree/oppose has been going on since Barack Obama became POTUS; it’s just in the open now. We’ll have a choice to make soon enough. Wouldn’t bother me one bit to see every Democrat save those in East/West coast states that have already made their choice get booted out of office.
I have faith in ordinary Americans…with guns. The Democrats have made such a lurch into an inverted constitution that one really has to wonder what will happen if they regain the White House, Senate and maintain control of the House?
When judges blatantly and grossly overstep their authority and enact partisan lawfare, that is grounds to impeach them. Republicans must do more than complain to cameras.
If the GOP had any sort of back bone they would use these same rulings against the Dems. Have the senate ask for the same info from Democrat leaders. They want games, lets play games.
It hardly seems likely that they can find NOTHING in the records of any given very wealthy person to point at as justification for their vilification and setting aside basic and essential rights that not so long ago they would trumpet. (Is the 5th Amendment dead? The right to privacy?
Nevertheless, for America’s sake in this case I would wish the man to be just squeaky clean: Any least questionable thing – much less any major issue – will be trumpeted to the skies as legitimate justification for their actions.
Insofar as the proposal to get even by subpoenaing the records of Pelosi, Waters, et.al., seems to me there was justification for that long, long ago – but who will publish what is revealed? Not the NYT! Not CNN!
Twitter.
Personally, from the first sentence in your final paragraph until the final period I think you revealed one of the most glaring realities that is completely incongruous with mass-media reporting in the U.S.
Thank you for sharing!
Bob Dole’s eulogy for Richard Nixon is a speech for the ages, and it is particularly poignant right now. I would especially enjoy hearing Donald Trump quote Nixon’s famous line: “I just get up every morning to confound my enemies.” :-)
This and the records of Biden and the Obama administration as related to his son’s good fortune in Ukrainian business or government ventures. Since it is Maxine Waters who chairs the committee with which Wells Fargo has eagerly collaborated, there should be a serious probe of her improbable wealth, and of every Wells Fargo executive and board member’s conduct.
The Democrats called Chicago rules, now Make. Them. Own. It.
Very late to the Party. I couldn’t log on for four days.
I am very troubled there are only 13 comments on this very important post. The Democrats, if successful in the subpoena scam of Trump’s tax records, will have created a major Constitutional crisis. This is an unbelievably big deal.
I am sympathetic with Fake John’s idea of subpoenaing the records of the Democrats, but really I think the Judge should be charged with a serious civil rights abuse crime. There is simply no legal reason to subpoena Trump’s tax records as a private person. None whatsoever. This Judge’s criminal conduct is very damaging to our Rule of Law and to our Republic. I know Judges are protected but this abuse is way over the top. This new attack on civil liberties needs to be shut down forcefully and immediately, obliterating those who perpetuated it in the process, or this line of attack will explode into a very ugly situation and used almost without any cause against anyone who dares to confront the Left.