Republicans who were trying to bust the Kavanaugh bubble warned about Kavanaugh’s extensive document trail and the time it would take to review it ... and now it’s Republicans ignoring big parts of that extensive document trail now that he’s been nominated.
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"Why should the President be different from anyone else for purposes of responding to a grand jury subpoena," Brett Kavanaugh wrote in 1995.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/trumps-supreme-court-nominee-argued-a-president-likely …
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@lex_nyc reminded me, the Kavanaugh memo in my story also has this ~relevant to our 2018 eyes~ part about DOJ not turning over "documents pertaining to an open investigation" to Congress as "standard practice." —>pic.twitter.com/Ba38qnZBov
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But Kavanaugh also wrote that a sitting president can't be charged with crimes or subpoenaed.
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He sure did, just a few years later! http://www.minnesotalawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Kavanaugh_MLR.pdf …
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So does that mean dems won’t obstruct his appointment with the help of their left media?
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They won’t see that they’re making the argument for his appointment. It’s ~ a year after
@washingtonpost wrote that#RussiaCollusion was stupid b/c “collusion” not even a legal term/crime, yet ppl still whining about it (some are practicing attys too) -
How can what we know about trump and now Nunes how can WE ethically accept any nominee until we get answers??? The GOP has held us hostage to a f*cken idiot with his finger on nuclear weapons all along while they know he has committed a criminal act. COME ON AMERICA WAKE UP
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Maybe stop letting the media tell you what to think.
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Media didn’t. Heard it straight from Devin Nunes own mouth
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Then you need hearing aids.
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Ha ha Nunes got caught telling secrets of the Russian playbook He’s committing treason as we speak especially with his trip this week. Mueller will take him down Jail is coming to traitors...
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@MarkWarner and@RepAdamSchiff actually met with Russians and foreign operatives. Get your facts straight. - 2 more replies
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Me thinks that some presidents are more above the law than others in his eyes.
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I wonder how many rationales he has already fully composed to explain why his decision once he’s on the bench is diametrically opposed to the position staked out here.
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@threadreaderapp please unroll -
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If I understand Kavanough’s argument correctly, a president could be subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury. But once there could claim executive privilege to any question he didn’t want to answer. So, it seems like Trump might prefer to be subpoenaed rather than interviewed.
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@MaddowBlog He's LyingThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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