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Thanks, I didn't know that.
That's on Moscow Mitch and the Republicans.
Under the Senate rules House Managers can call witnesses. The Chief as presiding officer would rule on this. MM would have to get the rules changed to negate this, or call a vote to override a ruling by the Chief MM doesn't approve of, ne c'est pas.
Pelosi will anyhow continue to run the show by her grandfather clock.
I really hope you're joking. Say that Bolton "has done a service" is a slap in the face to every diplomat and career official who put their careers on the line to testify in the House.
And a blight on his honor. But in the past. Stepping up now is better than not at all and it comes at a critical time for McConnell.
The Pentagon Chief of Staff just resigned.
The Pentagon Chief of Staff just resigned.
Thanks, I didn't know that.
You see this Twitter thread?
https://mobile.twitter.com/rezamarashi/status/1214031169173348352?s=19
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...3d8de8-2ff2-11ea-898f-eb846b7e9feb_story.html
Why stop at cultural sites when you can find easy targets in hospitals and day care centers?
You see this Twitter thread?
https://mobile.twitter.com/rezamarashi/status/1214031169173348352?s=19
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Bolton isn't a good person, and I have no reason to assume he's going to do something noble now.
Stalin was a rat**** yet together with him as an ally the allies led by USA won World War II. So it's about common cause and the urgency of the moment. Bolton was after all against Trump's extortion of Ukraine military assistance money approved and directed to Ukraine by Congress.
And a blight on his honor. But in the past. Stepping up now is better than not at all and it comes at a critical time for McConnell.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...3d8de8-2ff2-11ea-898f-eb846b7e9feb_story.html
Why stop at cultural sites when you can find easy targets in hospitals and day care centers?
Don't assume you know Bolton's true motives. Only Bolton knows what he plans on doing.
That's on Moscow Mitch and the Republicans.
Under the Senate rules House Managers can call witnesses. The Chief as presiding officer would rule on this. MM would have to get the rules changed to negate this, or call a vote to override a ruling by the Chief MM doesn't approve of, ne c'est pas.
Pelosi will anyhow continue to run the show by her grandfather clock.
I’d wait until he actually commits a war crime before complaining about “more” of them being committed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...3d8de8-2ff2-11ea-898f-eb846b7e9feb_story.html
Why stop at cultural sites when you can find easy targets in hospitals and day care centers?
I’d wait until he actually commits a war crime before complaining about “more” of them being committed.
Do you have a link. I can't find one and this version of the rule doesn't jibe with the present discussion on MM's grip on the procedure.
“The Senate is not in an advocacy role, but acts as a judge and jury,” Jipping said. “The House managers and [the] president’s lawyers will likely make motions procedurally to benefit them, and the Senate will vote on how it wants to proceed with the trial.”
After establishing a date, the Senate orders the House managers—members of the House acting as prosecutors—or their counsel to provide the Senate’s sergeant of arms with information about potential witnesses and other evidence to be subpoenaed for presentation during the trial.
“The Senate will determine questions of competency, relevancy, and materiality,” the Congressional Research Service report says. House managers, or prosecutors, are the first to make opening arguments and—if needed—examine witnesses. The president’s counsel then has the opportunity to cross-examine witnesses.
Stewart said he has serious doubts witnesses would be called in any Senate trial of Trump over the Ukraine controversy.
“At the end of the day, the goal of the House managers and president’s lawyers will be to sway public opinion to drive the vote,” Stewart said. The House managers and the president’s counsel may make motions or objections during the trial.
However, the presiding officer at the trial “may choose to put any such issues to a vote before the Senate,” the report by the Congressional Research Service says, and any senator “may request that a formal vote be taken on a particular question.” Short of a rules change—itself requiring a two-thirds vote—a trial of Trump would follow the precedent of the Johnson and Clinton trials, both held before the full Senate.
4 Keys to Understanding a Trump Impeachment Trial in the Senate
I’d wait until he actually commits a war crime before complaining about “more” of them being committed.
The armed attack by the U.S. military on foreign soil against a foreign military leader that killed him and others was an illegal act of war under the Geneva Convention.
Trump spoke openly previously about having Army Soldiers to include Marines shooting unarmed civilians at the southern border who might be near a rock. The unlawful and violent rhetoric of this Potus is brazenly contemptuous of the laws governing troops on the ground and unarmed civilians to include proportionality. The Pentagon had to back Trump down on this and it did so successfully.
Accordingly, this Potus needs to read two works by Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment and The Idiot.
So he can't accurately post that Trump threatened war crimes (he did)? And what "more" of them did he complain about?
He said “more war crimes”
“More” would imply previous war crimes had been committed, which they haven’t.
I hope he does it. This normalizing of behavior is insane.
"BUT HE DIDN'T DO IT, HE JUST SAID HE'D DO IT!"
This is unacceptable rhetoric that is designed explicitly to normalize the president acting in a manner that would have ended the political career of literally anyone else.
And anyone who defends this with the grotesque commentary above, is complicit in these war crimes if comitted, and complicit in desensitizing the public to this grotesque, sickening, and horrific rhetoric.
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