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Bombay Troubadour's avatar

I look at both as conspiracy. Alternate electors plan A, and when that didn’t work, rally the deplorables for insurrection plan B

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BillEGoatSmirk's avatar

Dayum, Liz, thank you for doing that. I think I would have broken my phone listening to that for 4 hours.

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Brian Bixby's avatar

People keep telling us "be patient, it takes a long time to build a case", but it seems to me pretty open and shut when Rump confessed to multiple felonies every week in his Twitter feed.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Liz. Well done.

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Hither and Yawn's avatar

"5:00 Judge Mehta is trying to tease out how to treat to a speech which combined comments about his job with comments that were clearly not." Probably the same way I'd treat a swimming pool which combined elements of incontinent kids and people with better bladder control.

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Bayeau Buzzard's avatar

Wouldn't that make Dems the conspirators against drumpf?

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DLZebub's avatar

Yeah, I get you don't want to catch sidebars on a mic, but it does end up recorded, so they way it was worded in the post was weird.

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Mehmeisterjr's avatar

"Referring to cases and shit" is a clear violation of due process, or perhaps dew process, or maybe doo-doo process.

If I haven't said so before (and even if I have) as a once-upon-a-time lawyer who changed careers, I find her articles both legally sound and rib-tickling funny, also, too.

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Mehmeisterjr's avatar

Or "The One Branch of Government."

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resource NW's avatar

I think a large part of the arguement is that tfg's comments were part of official duties and as such, part of the Govt, which cannot be sued.

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The Jellybean's avatar

Thanks for your service, Liz, and also for the tip about a new chai-like tea. I am a new convert to Harney & Sons and I am definitely going to try this flavor now - their Egyptian Chamomile is like the nectar of the gods!

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Diane (catlady)✔☕🥦🥨🎠🦇🏳️‍🌈's avatar

Yes. TFG is trying to say that EVERYTHING he did/does is part of his job and the plaintiffs are saying that isn't the case and that he made these comments as a candidate.

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Cthulhu: Danger hugs!'s avatar

Exactly. That fat orange son of a bitch should have been arrested the second he was out of office.

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Brian Bixby's avatar

Screw that, he should have been arrested while IN office. The whole claim that a sitting president can't be accused of a crime is based on absolutely no legal precedent.

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marksb's avatar

Asked and answered long ago... https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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Malcolm Campbell's avatar

Right? I got excited when Republicans got so mad at Facebook they almost changed their minds about anti-trust actions.

Almost.

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