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7 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

Huston-Tillotson has a football team?

They do?  Are they hiring?

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    I'm a couple pages back in this fast-moving thread, but I wanted to respond to this.   I'm pretty close to you in demographics, and I was also a child who echoed his parents' pro-Reagan stance, a

  • Unreal. Biden’s son can take home $1m a year from a Ukrainian company he knows nothing about...but our president acts like the CEO of a company with leverage in cutting deals and this shit happens?

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Boy, Chaplain Collins has a difficult time wrapping it up.

Nadler with the final "Fuck You".  LOL.

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i know today isn't a huge deal in the grand scheme of things, but i agree with whomever criticized the choice of the scholars (even though they all did fairly well for themselves).

this whole thing is so fucking partisan at every turn, and there are a record number of lifelong conservatives who cannot stand what's happening right now, former prosecutors, whatever, signing shit supporting the mueller findings, obstruction, etc.  

instead of having 3 dems and 1 pub, would it be that hard to find 2 and 2?  or to find 4 "non-partisan" types?  these are background scholar witnesses, not fact witnesses.  they shouldn't be dem witnesses or pub witnesses.  it just plays into their victim narrative and wasn't necessary.

it would've made great tv for someone to start saying "if you don't mind some personal questions, which party are you registered with?  who did you vote for in 1996?  2000?  2004?  2008?" just to get them on the record as a republican, and then ask neutral, non-slanted, non-leading questions.  this country has gotten to the point where when "the other side" is speaking, we tune out all content.  i fucking do it sometimes.  the facts aren't on trump's side.  the constitution isn't on trump's side.  they shouldn't need hillary supporters sworn in to be able to identify how fucking corrupt our president is. 

like jimmyjazz (i think) said - why give them any fucking ammo?

i would be shocked if Gohmert's IQ was triple digits. good lord that man 🙄

1 hour ago, hayden_horn said:

look, i'm about as biased as they come, but leave the kid's names out of it. i find it distasteful, and i'm as anti-trump as they come.

Yeah that was a lame attempt to be cute.  The issue is not kings, barons, or marquesses, it's authoritarianism not nobility.

Legal academics are the biggest fucking nerds in the history of nerds.  Make engineering and accounting academics look like Renaissance Men.

I see now that this is an attempt by the Judiciary Committee to put the findings of the Intelligence Committee in a legal context.

Still, it was a mighty act of hubris for Nadler and his gang of geriatric failed lawyers to think they could take on and effectively question law professors.

Nadler with the final "Fuck You".  LOL.

What’d he do?

I listened to a lot of the hearing today, but not all of it.  Did anyone ever challenge Turley about his previous testimony on what is an impeachable offense?  Something as simple as...

"Have our Founding Fathers' thoughts on impeachment changed in the last 20 years?  How about the last 5?  Because when you testified in the Clinton impeachment, and as recently as a 2014 op-ed, you argued the exact opposite"

The GOP's only impeachment witness on Wednesday contradicted his own previous testimony

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Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University Law School, testified on Wednesday that he didn't see any proof that President Donald Trump committed a crime and that Trump therefore should not be impeached.

Turley was one of four legal experts — and the only one invited by the Republicans — who testified in the House Judiciary Committee's first public impeachment hearing about Trump.

While the other witnesses laid out the case that Trump abused his power by trying to strong-arm Ukraine into caving to his personal demands while withholding vital military aid and a White House meeting, Turley argued there was no evidence that Trump broke a specific federal statute and that impeaching him would set a dangerous precedent.

But 20 years ago, Turley made the opposite case. At the time, he was one of several GOP legal analysts pushing for President Bill Clinton to be impeached and removed from office.

"If you decide that certain acts do not rise to impeachable offenses, you will expand the space for executive conduct," Turley testified in 1998 during Clinton's impeachment hearings. He added that Clinton's actions didn't need to break any laws in order to be considered impeachable conduct.

"While there's a high bar for what constitutes grounds for impeachment, an offense does not have to be indictable," Turley wrote in a 2014 op-ed for the Washington Post. "Serious misconduct or a violation of public trust is enough. And the founders emphasized that impeachments were about what happened in the political arena: involving 'political crimes and misdemeanors' and resulting in 'political punishments.'"

On Wednesday, Turley argued that the mountain of evidence against Trump in the Ukraine scandal didn't matter because it doesn't meet statutory elements for criminal bribery. But the other witnesses pushed back forcefully on his claim.

"Bribery had a clear meaning to the framers," said Noah Feldman, a professor at Harvard Law School. "It was when the president, using the power of his office, solicits or receives something of personal value from someone affected by his official powers."

"And I want to be very clear. The Constitution is law," Feldman added. "The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. So, of course, Professor Turley is right that you wouldn't want to impeach someone who didn't violate the law. But the Constitution, the supreme law of the land, specifies bribery as a ground of impeachment, as it specifies other high crimes and misdemeanors. Bribery had a clear meaning."

 

2 hours ago, DixonHur said:

I'm giving the Dems a C- for today's performance.  I'm truly baffled as to why they didn't go hard to the paint on Turley.

Impossible, Sir. On this board all Rs are DESTROYED and everybody bangs 10s. 

I'd Like to See Ol Donny Trump Wriggle His Way Out of THIS Jam!

My girl made a bad joke that would have made her law class groan. But show of hands of those that think Melania really wrote that tweet? Yeah. I liked this tweet was a pretty good clap back. 

 

I have a bad feeling about this country in general.  We've always been overblown bs, but this is really showing our ass.  I don't think we can come back from this.

2 hours ago, Message Board User said:

 

This reminded me of a former colleague. When his son was applying for college circa 2010, we talked about the process for getting into a Service Academy. Since I had attended USNA, he appreciated my input and I even offered to hook him up with my AFA grad friend so they could talk.  During the process I left the company.  About a year later I asked him about his sons application.  His response, "He decided against it. Didn't want to serve under this Commander in Chief"

WTF?  Biggest bunch of bullshit, OR sour grapes. 

Boy ended up going to aTm,  where he pushed at least one anti-LBGT agenda as part of student government.  He's a councilman in a east/central Texas town now. 

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1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:


What’d he do?

Collins tried to enter another resolution and Nadler said "nope, time's up'.  (In my opinion, he should have said "sure, fine, I'll enter it", but it was still funny.)

Between the Thanksgiving holidays and obsessing over the coaching carousel I haven't paid any attention to the political news in the last 7 days. I have no idea what is going on with these hearings and I usually follow politics fairly closely. I imagine the vast majority of America has no fucking clue about what is going on nor do they really care. These hearings are going to be a fart in the wind.

6 minutes ago, F250 said:

Between the Thanksgiving holidays and obsessing over the coaching carousel I haven't paid any attention to the political news in the last 7 days. I have no idea what is going on with these hearings and I usually follow politics fairly closely. I imagine the vast majority of America has no fucking clue about what is going on nor do they really care. These hearings are going to be a fart in the wind.

History will show we at least tried to do the right thing.  It may not amount to a hill of beans and democracy may be destroyed, but I know I was on the right side.

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the whole idea of these proceedings is to help people make up their minds one way or the other.  but if you’re engaged enough to watch, you already know which side you’re on.

4 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

the whole idea of these proceedings is to help people make up their minds one way or the other.  but if you’re engaged enough to watch, you already know which side you’re on.

Exactly.  Most people are just getting the highlights, selectively chosen by whichever network they prefer, with plenty of lopsided editorializing to confirm how correct their viewers are and what a bunch of idiots the guys watching the other channel are.

The people who really need to hear this and understand this, the ones who aren't in one camp or the other, don't give a shit.  That's why they're not in one camp or another.

We may be the first nation to die of apathy.

Fuck Melania and her evil spawn, too.

The whole family wastes the earth’s air and should do us all a favor and Goebbels themselves.

3 hours ago, Chico_SA said:

Boy ended up going to aTm,  where he pushed at least one anti-LBGT agenda as part of student government.  He's a councilman in a east/central Texas town now. 

I look forward to reading about his homosexual escapades when he gets outed by the Palestine Herald-Press

13 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

Fuck Melania

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As expected, the biggest reaction to yesterday's hearings among my right wing acquaintances is outrage over Karlan's ill-advised example of the nobility clause when discussing limits on a President's allowed behavior.  It's as if nothing else happened during that very long day on the Hill.  They take their talking points like good soldiers and run with them.  No critical thought, no reflection.

I would think any American who is truly curious and concerned would at the very least wonder how 4 constitutional scholars at elite universities couldn't reach unanimous agreement on a standard for impeachment, regardless of whether they think Trump reached that bar.  I'm curious.  I find it fascinating.  Professor Turley might just be a political hack, but I owe it to myself to dig in a little deeper and determine if that's actually the case, and not just a simple way to dismiss his testimony.  The very fact that he took the opposite tack in the Clinton impeachment hearings tells me he probably is just a hack, but it still bears scrutiny.

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23 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

As expected, the biggest reaction to yesterday's hearings among my right wing acquaintances is outrage over Karlan's ill-advised example of the nobility clause when discussing limits on a President's allowed behavior.  It's as if nothing else happened during that very long day on the Hill.  They take their talking points like good soldiers and run with them.  No critical thought, no reflection.

I would think any American who is truly curious and concerned would at the very least wonder how 4 constitutional scholars at elite universities couldn't reach unanimous agreement on a standard for impeachment, regardless of whether they think Trump reached that bar.  I'm curious.  I find it fascinating.  Professor Turley might just be a political hack, but I owe it to myself to dig in a little deeper and determine if that's actually the case, and not just a simple way to dismiss his testimony.  The very fact that he took the opposite tack in the Clinton impeachment hearings tells me he probably is just a hack, but it still bears scrutiny.

Turley's biggest disagreement wasn't about the standard for impeachment. He admitted that it did not have to be a crime and that a quid-pro-quo withholding foreign aid or an official act to compel an investigation of a political opponent would be impeachable. He disagreed that democrats had sufficiently met their burden of proving that, and that they should wait on the courts to compel the witnesses to testify and the Whitehouse hand over documents. He also said that Congress not letting the courts decide it was an abuse of power. The problem with both of those lines of thinking is that it ignores the baselessness of Trump's arguments for withholding EVERYTHING. And that, even though the arguments are baseless, Trump could use the courts to run out the clock. Considering part of the offense is inviting foreign interference in the 2020 election, it seems reasonable that democrats would want to move before that election, even if there is evidence still out there that they could eventually get. Democrats have also put together a really strong case, despite the obstruction.

 

 

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23 minutes ago, horncyclist said:

Turley's biggest disagreement wasn't about the standard for impeachment. He admitted that it did not have to be a crime and that a quid-pro-quo withholding foreign aid or an official act to compel an investigation of a political opponent would be impeachable. He disagreed that democrats had sufficiently met their burden of proving that, and that they should wait on the courts to compel the witnesses to testify and the Whitehouse hand over documents. He also said that Congress not letting the courts decide it was an abuse of power. The problem with both of those lines of thinking is that it ignores the baselessness of Trump's arguments for withholding EVERYTHING. And that, even though the arguments are baseless, Trump could use the courts to run out the clock. Considering part of the offense is inviting foreign interference in the 2020 election, it seems reasonable that democrats would want to move before that election, even if there is evidence still out there that they could eventually get. Democrats have also put together a really strong case, despite the obstruction.

OK, let's run with that.  Professor Gerhardt was just on CNN and he clearly believes there is no specified role of the courts in impeachment proceedings.  He cites the language of the Constitution as evidence, with an emphasis on the word "sole":

The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

So how do two scholars differ so widely on that simple point of fact?

27 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

OK, let's run with that.  Professor Gerhardt was just on CNN and he clearly believes there is no specified role of the courts in impeachment proceedings.  He cites the language of the Constitution as evidence, with an emphasis on the word "sole":

The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

So how do two scholars differ so widely on that simple point of factlaw?

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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

So how do two scholars differ so widely on that simple point of fact?

I actually see them differing simply in terms of the burden of producing evidence.   To me, the Dem witnesses are saying that the President can choose not to produce evidence at his peril.  Turley is making (to me), the unreasonable argument that the Dems must meet some production test that i can't figure (exhaust efforts through the courts).  But underlying that, he seems to be arguing almost what some of were laughing about over the last few weeks -- that there must be some magic words spoken by the President to proof intent. 

8 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

History will show we at least tried to do the right thing.  It may not amount to a hill of beans and democracy may be destroyed, but I know I was on the right side.

It's a crazy world. 

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

OK, let's run with that.  Professor Gerhardt was just on CNN and he clearly believes there is no specified role of the courts in impeachment proceedings.  He cites the language of the Constitution as evidence, with an emphasis on the word "sole":

The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

So how do two scholars differ so widely on that simple point of fact?

It's a legal question, not a fact question. And scholars disagree. I don't know enough about this area or Turley's views to weigh in, but it strikes me as odd to suggest that the courts must weigh in to determine if Congress can pursue a given basis of impeachment. That is counter to the Consitution giving Congress the sole power of impeachment, and with similar questions, the Courts have typically stayed out it, citing a prudential doctrine of avoiding what they refer to as "political questions." Beyond that, I can't really critique Turley's views, though I'm sure the other scholars disagreed yesterday and explained why. As others have said, the democrats not calling a conserative legal scholar that would have sided with them was a mistake. The media seems to be reporting this as another partisan divide, and it's not that. Turley's views would be a small minority among legal scholars. 

 

 

31 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Anything short of articles of impeachment is just stalling now.

 

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35 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Anything short of articles of impeachment is just stalling now.

 

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14 minutes ago, horncyclist said:

Turley's views would be a small minority among legal scholars. 

Perhaps 25% or less?

What if congress wanted to investigate the court? Would they need the court's approval to do that?

Articles coming!  I predict three. 

 

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I get why she has to be the one to deliver the message, but Nancy is struggling right now.  Wish they had someone more eloquent.

1 minute ago, Chuckie Finster said:

I get why she has to be the one to deliver the message, but Nancy is struggling right now.  Wish they had someone more eloquent.

Schiff?

I wish they would also talk about how this isn't the only impeachable act he has committed.  You don't have to bring articles for everything because we don't have the time, but the public needs to understand this is one of many shittastic things he has done that have betrayed this country.

9 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Schiff?

Ask Val Demings to do it; she serves on both of the pertinent committees and has a direct manner of speaking that gets to the point.

I saw that the Senate released their calendar for 2020 and left January off, so McConnell knew this was coming soon.

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13 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Still, it was a mighty act of hubris for Nadler and his gang of geriatric failed lawyers to think they could take on and effectively question law professors.

According to this thread, they avoided challenging Turley and stuck to the friendly witnesses.  A lot of posters are frustrated by that, but it sounds like you agree with the approach.  I tend to as well, not because they couldn't find cracks (or canyons) in his logic, but because there was a decent chance he'd have some 2 sentence retort that showed their ignorance on some fine point and it would make them look foolish.  The goal isn't to convince people watching the entire exchange; they are looking to avoid negative headlines. 

The Democrats appear to want to get this over with as quickly as possible because they know they are going to be defeated in the Senate.

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