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Marty Lederman
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1/ Obviously I don't agree w/all the legal points in this piece by my terrific former student Will Chamberlain, but I wager his basic account is right: On matters of great significance (Bush/Gore; Garland; Kavanaugh; etc.), the GOP legal establishment ...

humanevents.com/2019/05/01/che…
2/ ... plays the long game and knows how to use all the tools at its disposal to prevail. It helps, of course, to control the Senate--and thus the Court and cabinet appointees--even as a minority party. The Dems, by contrast, don't appear to fully appreciate ...
3/ ... that Senate control is *everything" (look at all the strong potential candidates who've decided not to run), and, unfortunately, that in those times when you do control the Senate you must be ruthless. Wish it weren't so, but that's the modern reality.
4/ P.S. Just to be clear: I don't mean to suggest Mueller did a single thing wrong: Indeed, I think he acted precisely as he ought to have done, with integrity, judgment and fairness. It wasn't his job to try to outmaneuver the GOP legal machine--to the contrary.
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1/ Having sharply criticized @AndyGrewal for ignoring the principal, compelling reasons the House has for obtaining Trump's tax returns, I will gladly concede this much: The House is putting its worst foot forward by invoking 6103(f)(1) ...

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Marty Lederman
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1/ With a couple of exceptions, my friend Jack doesn’t much engage with @benjaminwittes’s and @charlie_savage’s detailed accounts of how Barr repeatedly misled and distorted the Report, in his letters and testimony. Having said that, I should add that I think the focus, ...
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Marty Lederman
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Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), an architect of the 2017 tax bill, said “that’s not what we thought was going to happen at that time [of the 2017 tax bill vote]. We thought we would get rid of a mandate that a lot people didn’t like.”

Exactly.

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Sen. Roy Blunt, a member of GOP leadership, said that the mandate provision in the 2017 bill was “intended to give people more options and be able to work more vigorously to find what those options are, and by removing the penalty, you allow people to make more choices, . . .
... without being penalized for making those choices.”

Yup.

It's shameful and deeply cynical DOJ would write a brief asking a court to deny this obvious point, which *everyone* understands.
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