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I’ve written for more than a year that #RussiaGate would culminate in constitutional crisis over the president’s pardon power. Contrary to what @realDonaldTrump or any “experts” have said, the Founders and the Supreme Court have been clear for 230 years, no one is above the law.

If the President can pardon himself, he can commit any federal crime without fear of prosecution. This would include bribing members of Congress not to support impeachment proceedings, paying off witnesses against him, ordering federal contracts awarded to his children.

If the President can pardon himself, he can issue executive orders that no federal jobs be given to black people or women. He can refuse to file personal or corporate income tax returns. He can refuse to pay federal taxes. He can demand financial tribute from foreign leaders.

If the president can pardon himself AND issue pre-emptive pardons (as has also been asserted) then he can nullify any federal law by declaring in advance that any violator will be immune. He can obliterate the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, all workplace safety regs.

In sum, if the president can pardon himself as he claims, we live in a country in which the president can declare himself a dictator. That is not the United States of America.​
 
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Plainview said:
https://twitter.com/douglasblackmon

I’ve written for more than a year that #RussiaGate would culminate in constitutional crisis over the president’s pardon power. Contrary to what @realDonaldTrump or any “experts” have said, the Founders and the Supreme Court have been clear for 230 years, no one is above the law.

If the President can pardon himself, he can commit any federal crime without fear of prosecution. This would include bribing members of Congress not to support impeachment proceedings, paying off witnesses against him, ordering federal contracts awarded to his children.

If the President can pardon himself, he can issue executive orders that no federal jobs be given to black people or women. He can refuse to file personal or corporate income tax returns. He can refuse to pay federal taxes. He can demand financial tribute from foreign leaders.

If the president can pardon himself AND issue pre-emptive pardons (as has also been asserted) then he can nullify any federal law by declaring in advance that any violator will be immune. He can obliterate the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, all workplace safety regs.

In sum, if the president can pardon himself as he claims, we live in a country in which the president can declare himself a dictator. That is not the United States of America.​
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The sad part is you and I see that as alarming, and 45 sees that as a bucket list.
 
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What a baby. Can't believe people look to him as their alpha.
 
JinCA So is California going to f*** up tomorrow? Haven't heard about any of the Dem candidates dropping out of the stacked races.
 
A very fine person, on both sides, was elected by republican party.



https://www.thedailybeast.com/charlottesville-hate-marcher-elected-by-republican-party

Charlottesville Hate Marcher Elected by Republican Party

An affiliate of a “pro-white” group who marched in Charlottesville last year was elected to a Republican Party post in Washington state last week, part of his campaign to take over the GOP for the alt-right.

James Allsup, 22, attended the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville,Virginia, where white supremacists chanted anti-Semitic slogans and one allegedly drove a car into a crowd, killing a protester and injuring more. Allsup was filmed marching with Identity Evropa, an anti-immigrant alt-right group. Fallout over the rally led to Allsup stepping down as president of the Washington State University College Republicans, a group he once boasted of taking over. Now he claims he’s on the way to taking over the local GOP.​
 
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Manafort's under even more pressure now; the special counsel has requested that Manafort be put in custody rather than house arrest because he has been attempting to tamper with witnesses, who told the FBI he was attempting to get them to commit perjury. But, you know, witch hunt and all that.

 
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hrudey said:
Manafort's under even more pressure now; the special counsel has requested that Manafort be put in custody rather than house arrest because he has been attempting to tamper with witnesses, who told the FBI he was attempting to get them to commit perjury. But, you know, witch hunt and all that.

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I don't think he'll 'flip' because I feel he's beholden to people who will kill his family if he talks.
 
Do Faux State News ran a propaganda story against the Philadelphia Eagles making it seem like they knelt during the National Anthem. Only, they weren't. They were praying before the game. No Eagle's player knelt during the anthem the entire season.



 
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I don't think he'll 'flip' because I feel he's beholden to people who will kill his family if he talks.
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No, he won't flip. He's going to jail for a long time if he doesn't kill himself first (or if Trump decides he's so screwed anyway so he'll pardon the guy).
 
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Do Faux State News ran a propaganda story against the Philadelphia Eagles making it seem like they knelt during the National Anthem. Only, they weren't. They were praying before the game. No Eagle's player knelt during the anthem the entire season.



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You're just parroting them liberal media and their facts and whatnot. It's a war on Christmas... lookit this new tweet!
 
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https://arstechnica.com/science/201...ny-science-backing-up-pruitts-climate-claims/

Judge orders EPA to disclose any science backing up Pruitt’s climate claims​
EPA will have to comply with an information request by July.​
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In March 2017, Scott Pruitt, the new administrator of Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency, appeared on CNBC and said that carbon dioxide was not known to be a major factor in climate change. “I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see,” Pruitt said, adding, “there’s a tremendous disagreement about the degree of the impact” of “human activity on the climate.”​
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Based on what?​
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The next day, a group called Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the EPA, asking for any agency documents that Administrator Pruitt may have relied on to come to his conclusions. Since Pruitt’s words contradicted scientific evidence shared by the EPA before the administrator took office, PEER's request might turn up some recent document that indicated Pruitt had new information.​
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Instead, the EPA stalled and refused to provide any information to PEER. The employee group then sued the agency.​
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On Tuesday, a US District Court Judge for the District of Columbia issued a memo (PDF) saying that the EPA must comply with PEER’s request by July 2, offering any EPA documents that helped Pruitt come to the conclusion that he shared on CNBC last year. If certain documents can not be provided, an explanation for their absence must be provided by July 11.​
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In the Tuesday memo, Judge Beryl A. Howell described a slew of excuses used by the EPA to justify a refusal of PEER’s request. The EPA contended that PEER’s FOIA request was overly broad, that it was actually “an impermissible attempt to compel EPA and its administrator to answer questions and take a position on the climate change debate,” and that complying with the request would be burdensome.​
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In its own explanation to the court, the EPA argued that complying with PEER's FOIA request “would require EPA to spend countless hours researching and analyzing a vast trove of material on the effect of human activity on climate change,” which amounted to “a subjective assessment upon which reasonable minds can differ.”​
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“Epistemological smokescreen”​
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Judge Howell disagreed with these characterizations, calling the Agency’s objections “hyperbolic” and saying that claiming PEER’s FOIA was unclear was “both misplaced and troubling.”​
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“The agency asks ‘how is one to even know precisely what documents one relies on in forming one’s beliefs?’” the judge wrote in her brief. “As the plaintiff points out, however, nothing in the FOIA request seeks information ‘about Administrator Pruitt’s beliefs or how they were formed.’” Instead, the FOIA only requests any agency documents that the administrator relied on to formulate his public statement.​
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The judge also called it “particularly troubling" that the EPA argued that evidence for a factual statement by the administrator can be unknowable. “EPA’s strained attempt to raise an epistemological smokescreen will not work here to evade its obligations under the FOIA,” Judge Howell wrote.​
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The judge also accused the EPA of engaging in “a thinly veiled effort to make the request more complex and burdensome than it is.”​
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Howell concluded: “When the head of an agency makes a public statement that appears to contradict ‘the published research and conclusions of’ that agency, the FOIA provides a valuable tool for citizens... Compliance with such a request would help ‘ensure an informed citizenry, vital to the functioning of a democratic society.’”​
 
But, yeah, nobody with the campaign has ever talked with Russia... witch hunt!

https://www.buzzfeed.com/anthonycor...el-cohen-tower?utm_term=.ecZRL9WgV#.puqonk5ye

Amid intense scrutiny of contacts between Donald Trump's inner circle and representatives of Vladimir Putin, Ivanka Trump's name has barely come up. But during the campaign, she connected her father’s personal lawyer with a Russian athlete who offered to introduce Donald Trump to Putin to facilitate a 100-story Trump tower in Moscow, according to emails reviewed by BuzzFeed News and four sources with knowledge of the matter.
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Read the whole thing.
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...mulvaney-fires-members-of-cfpb-advisory-board

Mick Mulvaney fires all 25 members of consumer watchdog’s advisory board​
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Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, fired the agency’s 25-member advisory board Wednesday, days after some of its members criticized his leadership of the watchdog agency.​
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The CFPB said it will revamp the Consumer Advisory Board, known as the CAB, in the fall with all new members.​
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The panel has traditionally played an influential role in advising the CFPB’s leadership on new regulations and policies. But some members, who include prominent consumer advocates, academics and industry executives, began to complain that Mulvaney was ignoring them and making unwise decisions about the agency’s future.​
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On Monday, 11 CAB members held a news conference and criticized Mulvaney for, among other things, canceling legally required meetings with the group.​
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On Wednesday, group members were notified that they were being replaced — and that they could not reapply for spots on the new board.​
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In a statement, the agency’s spokesman, John Czwartacki, took a final swipe at the group. “The outspoken members of the Consumer Advisory Board seem more concerned about protecting their taxpayer funded junkets to Washington, D.C., and being wined and dined by the Bureau than protecting consumers,” he said.​
 
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