As a lawyer and former senior counsel to a congressional committee, I am dumbfounded by what is going on with the Trump administration's defiance of congressional subpoenas. I am not in disbelief that the Trump administration is defying so many congressional subpoenas—its mindset on these issues has increasingly hardened with every passing week. What I find hard to believe, though, is that in the 232nd year since the adoption of the U.S.
Whether the Democrats take the Senate or not, such a reform can be enacted because a Republican Senate facing a Democratic president will, out of self-interest, finally want some meaningful ability to enforce their subpoenas against a new Democratic administration. What is left is a civil suit brought by Congress against the president. However, as we are seeing played out in a number of such lawsuits today, these congressional subpoena cases are moving through the courts at the speed of molasses.
The Trump administration strategy today is to use the court process to delay, delay, delay—making it conceivable that many of the subpoenas that have been issued, despite the strength of the House's position, will not be resolved for a number of months to come, and potentially not before the 2020 elections. As one congressional source told The Washington Post,"Trump is waging the most aggressive and expansive legal battle we've ever seen with Congress to conceal the truth.
Morning_Joe Tom Rogers hitting the nail on the head re Joe Biden. As usual, the Dem establishment people present discounted everything he said. There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Morning_Joe He is so very right✌🏼 A must read Resist NotMyPresident Resisters ResistersUnite retroactivelisa liked what he had to say on morning Joe💙
Morning_Joe Take doj out of exec branch
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Morning_Joe FYI maddow Thought of you, Rachel re Trump's 'above the law' status that may not be valid. Tom Rogers was on MorningJoe. Do you have any info for each other? glennkirschner2 BarbMcQuade JoyceWhiteVance
Sadly even with impeachment hearing going on the courts are not expediting subpoena lawsuits. SCOTUS shd make clear to all judges that impeachment hearings are to be prioritized because it affects our national security.
HE WILL HAVE TO WHEN A IMPEACHMENT IS CALLED..ONE WAY OR ANOTHER..THAT'S WHY PELOSI IS CONCENTRATING ON ONE IMPEACHABLE OFFENCE..WITH OBSTRUCTION..LOL
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Taking a page from EricHolder ?
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