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Is Joe #Manchin proving himself helpful to the White House again?

If reports are true that #censure has no traction (@BresPolitico @sarahdwire @EliStokols), proposing a censure that fails is not helpful to constitutional norms, or preventing abuse by this and future presidents.
@BresPolitico @sarahdwire @EliStokols 2.

A censure resolution with majority support would be good.
A censure resolution without majority support would be awful.

This feeble quote by Manchin does not instill confidence.👇

@BresPolitico @sarahdwire @EliStokols 3. More indications that the #Manchin #censure resolution has no real hope of passage.👇

And is likely a device Manchin thinks helps him personally, and just so happens to help President Trump too.

@BresPolitico @sarahdwire @EliStokols 4. The final nail in the coffin of #Manchin's political stunt.

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer both made clear Tuesday that censuring President Donald Trump ... is not on the table."

cnn.com/2020/02/04/pol…
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Powerful letter.

From: 60 former federal prosecutors, all alumni of US Attorney's Office for DC

To: Acting head of the office Tim Shea

RE: Political interference of Barr, Trump; need to assert independence

(@hsu_spencer reporting)
washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
2. The "letter was drafted independently by assistants to former U.S. attorneys Earl J. Silbert—an appointee of Richard Nixon ... and Thomas A. Flannery, another Nixon appointee..."

#CountryOverParty
3. Former prosecutors to Tim Shea:

Barr and Trump's actions "have created the perception that political interest has been married to substantive prosecutorial decisions at the highest level, and that the Office no longer is able, nor can it be trusted, to act independently."👇
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Ryan Goodman
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Watch this space.

White House may be playing this move:

1. Nominate someone like Ratcliffe.

2. Senate will certainly not confirm.

3. Grenell remains in place under Vacancies Reform Act rather than leave by March 11 while the nomination of his successor lingers for MONTHS.
2. Section 3346 of the Vacancies Reform Act.👇

If Trump nominates Ratcliffe and then Senate rejects Ratcliffe (or Trump withdraws the nomination), Grenell gets to stay 210 days after the date of rejection/withdrawal.

hat tip @steve_vladeck

Plus it's important to emphasize....
@steve_vladeck @julianbarnes @maggieNYT @mkraju 3/3. It's important to emphasize:

This could have been Joseph Maguire (not Grenell) remaining in place long after March 11. There was no reason to dismiss Maquire.

For more on that aspect, this is a very good @EricColumbus interview with @atrupar:

vox.com/2020/2/24/2115…
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Ryan Goodman
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🧨 Barr personally tried to push SDNY away from indicting Turkish bank Halkbank but US Attorney Berman resisted, per CNN.

Same bank case NYT cited—via John Bolton book—as Trump wanting to do favor for Turkey’s Erdogan cabal for Trump’s personal interest.
cnn.com/2020/02/15/pol…
2. “Barr personally spearheaded an effort last year to negotiate a settlement with the bank that would have allowed it to sidestep an indictment...Berman, however, insisted on criminal prosecution.”

(CNN’s @eorden @KaraScannell reporting)

Now recall what Erdogan boasted...
3. Erdogan “repeatedly tried to persuade Mr Trump to use his power to limit additional enforcement action against Halkbank...

Erdogan told reporters in Turkey that Mr Trump had told him that ‘he would INSTRUCT THE RELEVANT MINISTERS immediately’ to follow through on the matter.”
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