So, in its case seeking access to grand jury material for a possible (re)impeachment of @realDonaldTrump, which was scheduled for argument before the Supreme Court on December 2, ...
... the House Judiciary Committee moved to postpone the argument on the ground that @JoeBiden is going to be president on January 20, and, in essence, it would be a waste of time to argue the case, since Trump won't be there to impeach any more.
The Justice Department, which brought the case to SCOTUS (it lost below), basically responded by saying ...🤷🏻♂️: Your Honors, do whatever you want.
@ktumulty Theoretically possible but highly unlikely.
@ktumulty If they pulled this stuff in front of a judge, they'd have a decent chance of having their licenses suspended or pulled altogether.
@ktumulty But statements to the public are less often the subject of discipline, and they present the question of whether the statements are protected by the First Amendment.
"He's not in charge of transportation, which is true. But he is in charge of setting the tone for his campaign.
"Hundreds of Trump's loyal supporters were left out in the cold in Omaha on Tuesday night. A metaphor for this presidency, this campaign and this person, Donald Trump."
"Advance people take their cues from up above. If Trump's people had thought their candidate would be furious at his supporters being left in the cold, they would never have let that happen."
"President Trump has long shown little regard for the people who come to his rallies. Exhibit A is allowing thousands of maskless people to congregate for several hours, shoulder to shoulder, despite a surging pandemic and his own health officials' recommendations against it."
It should go without saying that leaking information stolen by Russian intelligence (Giuliani 2020, perhaps) is actually even worse than finding out whether someone else (Wikileaks) is going to do leak such information (Stone, 2016).
And whereas Stone and Trump both denied talking about it (falsely, according to the Senate Intelligence Committee), here we have Giuliani telling the press they talked about it.