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Jed Shugerman
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Some good news in the legal fight against Trump (non-child-abuse edition).
1) Emoluments news:
"Dems sent more than 36 subpoenas, demanding a response by July 29, seeking evidence about Trump's financial records" after a fed judge denied Trump motions.
cnn.com/2019/07/08/pol…
2) NY state tax returns news:
"Gov. Cuomo signed a bill to allow congressional committees to access @realDonaldTrump state tax returns. The bill requires state tax officials to release state returns for any 'specified and legitimate legislative purpose.'"
nytimes.com/2019/07/08/nyr…
3) Barr can say what he wants about disobeying court orders on Census, but it is meaningful that DOJ lawyers - Trump's own appointees are bailing. Important signal to lawyers and judges.
I doubt DOJ lawyers will follow Barr towards dis-Barr-ment.
4) And on that note, here is more good news from House Democrats on Barr:
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Jed Shugerman
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The most apt names of Trump era:
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions. Tom Cotton. The Mooch. Con-way.
How about Howard Kurtz & Heart of Darkness?
Kurtz: Don't call Trump tweets racist "b/c that goes to motive. You’re saying in his heart he is a racist.”
Absurd.
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2/ @ErikWemple calls out @HowardKurtz on this superficial, convenient definition:
"Stop right there.
Characterizing Trump’s tweets as 'racist' entails no judgment about what lies in his heart. It’s merely a textual judgment."
I agree but would add more about hearts of darkness...
3/ Kurtz sets the bar impossibly high. When a politician uses flagrantly racist rhetoric, how can we know whether he or she is sincerely, deeply racist?
Or just exploiting others' racism for political gain?
There is a infamous story about the segregationist George Wallace...
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Jed Shugerman
@jedshug
The Mueller hearing is in jeopardy because House Dems are fighting over getting their precious 5 minutes of airtime.
A modest proposal: Give NONE of the House Dem members questioning time.
Give all the time to 1 or 2 committee counsel experts.
That worked wonders in Watergate.
2/ Watergate is the model. When members of Congress had questions for major witnesses or knew that the questions would produce bombshells, they did not keep for themselves the airtime. They wisely assigned questioning to committee counsel & gave them time to probe and follow-up.
3/ Senate counsel Sam Dash (D) & Fred Thompson (R) (yes, that Fred Thompson) asked the most historic questions - b/c they had expertise & time, not grandstanding 5 mintes. Questioning Haldeman, Ehrlichman, @JohnWDean, Butterfield, those hearings were effecitve & more gripping...
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Jed Shugerman
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“Mueller’s legal errors meant that
1) he failed to conclude that the Trump campaign criminally coordinated with Russia;
2) he failed to indict Manafort & Gates for campaign crimes (see concise timeline);
3) the 10 acts of obstruction in Vol II fell flat.” thedailybeast.com/robert-mueller…
2/ My article has a concise timeline of 10 events showomg criminal coordination in the back-and-forth between the Trump campaign & Russia. Puzzlingly, Mueller omitted some of these key events from Vol I, but revealed them in other indictments or in Vol II, another strange error.
3/ See especially Aug 2 on Manafort sharing 70 pages of polling data with Russian spy Kilimnik, highlighting target states WI, MI, MN & PA:
"This episode leads to one of the most dumbfounding passages in the report: ‘The Office could not reliably determine Manafort’s purpose...”
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