I heard on the news this morning that the state of Maryland is suing President Trump over his appointment of Matthew Whitaker as Acting AG.

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The state is likely to make an unpreceded move on Tuesday in a bid to block Whitaker from exercising the duties in the position, arguing that his appointment is not legitimate. The state will claim that deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein is the rightful acting attorney general, the New York Times reported.

A draft filing of the motion obtained by the newspaper claims the president cannot “bypass the constitutional and statutory requirements for appointing someone to that office.”

FOX News link

I think this is unbelievable. That a state would sue the President over a temporary appointment in the Executive Branch of government!

Every time you think you’ve heard the stupidest thing you can possibly imagine; a new day dawns.
- me

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I think this is unbelievable. That a state would sue the President over a temporary appointment in the Executive Branch of government!

Every time you think you’ve heard the stupidest thing you can possibly imagine; a new day dawns.
- me[/QUOTE]

After the elections, the left is energized and they will go on a binge of total craziness. Get used to it. The next 2 years are going to epically brutal to watch. It might even be fun to watch the meltdown on a daily basis.

Jim

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Originally posted by TMats:
I heard on the news this morning that the state of Maryland is suing President Trump over his appointment of Matthew Whitaker as Acting AG.

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The state is likely to make an unpreceded move on Tuesday in a bid to block Whitaker from exercising the duties in the position, arguing that his appointment is not legitimate. The state will claim that deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein is the rightful acting attorney general, the New York Times reported.

A draft filing of the motion obtained by the newspaper claims the president cannot “bypass the constitutional and statutory requirements for appointing someone to that office.”

FOX News link

I think this is unbelievable. That a state would sue the President over a temporary appointment in the Executive Branch of government!

Every time you think you’ve heard the stupidest thing you can possibly imagine; a new day dawns.
- me

The stupid part isn't that a state would sue to block the Whittaker appointment. The stupid part is that they want the court to declare that Rod Rosenstein is the acting AG. I don't know where in the constitution they find a power for the court to install someone in a position of head of an Executive Branch agency when that person has not been so appointed by the President.

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Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan:

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Originally posted by TMats:
I heard on the news this morning that the state of Maryland is suing President Trump over his appointment of Matthew Whitaker as Acting AG.

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The state is likely to make an unpreceded move on Tuesday in a bid to block Whitaker from exercising the duties in the position, arguing that his appointment is not legitimate. The state will claim that deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein is the rightful acting attorney general, the New York Times reported.

A draft filing of the motion obtained by the newspaper claims the president cannot “bypass the constitutional and statutory requirements for appointing someone to that office.”

FOX News link

I think this is unbelievable. That a state would sue the President over a temporary appointment in the Executive Branch of government!

Every time you think you’ve heard the stupidest thing you can possibly imagine; a new day dawns.
- me

The stupid part isn't that a state would sue to block the Whittaker appointment. The stupid part is that they want the court to declare that Rod Rosenstein is the acting AG. I don't know where in the constitution they find a power for the court to install someone in a position of head of an Executive Branch agency when that person has not been so appointed by the President.

They just dream up this nonsense and then peddle it, filing suits with equally idiotic judges, etc. In their dreams of bringing down DJT.

All it will do is further clog up the legal system until it gets thrown out by some judge with an actual working brain. The sad part is that it might go all the way to SCOTUS.

Go ahead, let a court "appoint" that leftist tyrant Rosenstein.

Then fire him.

The republicans better start fighting back against the left. Until those on the left are held accountable for their lawlessness for the last ten years nothing will change. That cowardly piece of garbage Sessions is finally gone now we need someone who actually applies the law equally and dosen't turn a blind eye to politicians.

The reason the left is so emboldened is becasue NOTHING ever happens to them. They are always on the upper tier of our two tiered "just-us" system.

When Trump is no longer president, there may be no more viable Republican party if they don't start representing the voters

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When Trump is no longer president, there may be no more viable Republican party if they don't start representing the voters

Bill Kristol and the The NeverTrump “conservatives” are trying to make sure of it. They are aiding Schiff and the media in their campaign to paralyze if not remove Whitaker.

One of Bill's recent tweets:
Bill Kristol ✔
@BillKristol

The GOP tax bill's bringing out my inner socialist. The sex scandals are bringing out my inner feminist. Donald Trump and Roy Moore are bringing out my inner liberal.
WHAT IS HAPPENING?

Bill Kristol is a jerk.

NeverTrump’s Billionaire Leftist Benefactors

NeverTrump “conservatives” are aiding Schiff and the media in their campaign to paralyze if not remove Whitaker. Commercials attacking the acting attorney general were aired on several Sunday morning political shows. The ads were sponsored by “Republicans for the Rule of Law,” a group founded earlier this year by Bill Kristol, the editor-at-large of The Weekly Standard. The group’s primary role so far appears to be pimping for the Mueller probe, a political witch-hunt that Kristol and his fellow NeverTrumpers pray will lead to the impeachment and removal of the president. The Left and their NeverTrump footsoldiers fear Whitaker will thwart the special counsel’s investigation instead of rubber stamping Mueller’s ever-expanding investigation as Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has done over the past 18 months.

Buying primo air time on network television doesn’t come cheap. So who is funding “Republicans for the Rule of Law” and their attacks on the Republican president and his acting attorney general? Is it big Republican donors?

We haven’t found any, but we have learned learned that one of Kristol’s benefactors is progressive billionaire Pierre Omidyar, the co-founder of eBay.

One of Omidyar’s nonprofits is the Democracy Fund. In 2015, the Democracy Fund awarded nearly $9 million in grants, "many of which went to left-wing organizations"” One Democracy Fund recipient is currently in court fighting the results of the Georgia gubernatorial race, which was won by Republican Brian Kemp.

An affiliate of that fund disclosed on its website that it has given as least $600,000 to Kristol's umbrella group, Defending Democracy Together, since May. (Other NeverTrumpers involved in the group are author Mona Charen, strategist Linda Chavez, and former governor Christine Todd Whitman.) Republicans for the Rule of Law operates under the purview of Defending Democracy Together.

So why is a group of so-called principled "conservatives" accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a leftist billionaire who has shown zero dedication to conservative causes, an activist who finances interests that are inimical to conservative values and policies, and who bankrolls Democratic candidates hostile to mainstream conservatives?

Because the same phonies who claims to be all about principles and integrity are now the folks willing to do almost anything to take down Trump. (Remember that the next time they lecture pro-Trump Republicans about being a cult.)

https://www.amgreatness.com/20...leftist-benefactors/

I believe that there are many people on both sides who are really part of the same team. Some call themselves Democrats while others refer to themselves as Republicans.

But just like the Washington Generals and the Harlem Globetrotters, they're really part of the same production. It's a choreographed routine with a predetermined outcome.

The Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion Wednesday supporting President Trump’s appointment of Matt Whitaker as acting attorney general, despite criticism from Democrats who have questioned his qualifications to oversee the Russia investigation.

In its opinion, the Office of Legal Counsel said that the president’s appointment of Whitaker to replace former Attorney General Jeff Sessions was consistent with the Federal Vacancies Reform Act (VRA) of 1998.


“This Office previously had advised that the President could designate a senior Department of Justice Official, such as Mr. Whitaker as Acting Attorney General,” the OLC said, noting that Whitaker has been serving at the Justice Department “at a sufficiently senior pay level for over a year.”

But a senior Justice Department official said this week that when reviewing Whitaker’s appointment, the OLC had to research back to 1866 to find a similar instance where a non-Senate confirmed individual sat as acting attorney general. The Justice Department wasn’t created until 1870, though an attorney general existed prior to that.

The official told Fox News that the issue was “constitutionality” of the appointment.

“What we’re talking about here is constitutionality,” the official said. “VRA unquestionably gives the president the option to do it.”

Whitaker previously served as Sessions’ chief of staff at the Justice Department. The president requested Sessions’ resignation last week, just hours after the polls closed on Election Day. Sessions had been criticized by the president throughout his tenure at the Justice Department due to his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation, due to his involvement with the Trump campaign in 2016.

Following Sessions’ recusal, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate Russian meddling and potential collusion with Trump campaign associates in the 2016 presidential election.

But Whitaker’s new role would include oversight of the Russia investigation, along with the agency’s other federal investigations, including the New York prosecutors’ look into the finances of Trump and his former aides.

Democrats and eighteen state attorneys general have taken issue with Whitaker’s appointment, calling for him to recuse himself from overseeing the Russia probe, citing in part his “hostility” to the investigation given his past criticism in the media.

In an op-ed Whitaker wrote last year, he argued that “any investigation into President Trump’s finances or the finances of his family would require Mueller to return to Rod Rosenstein for additional authority under Mueller’s appointment as special counsel.”

“It is time for Rosenstein…to order Mueller to limit the scope of his investigation to the four corners of the order appointing him special counsel,” Whitaker wrote. “If he doesn’t, then Mueller’s investigation will eventually start to look like a political fishing expedition. This would not only be out of character for a respected figure like Mueller, but also could be damaging to the President of the United States and his family—and by extension, to the country.”

And separately, in July 2017, Whitaker told CNN, "I could see a scenario where Jeff Sessions is replaced with a recess appointment, and that attorney general doesn’t fire Bob Mueller, but he just reduces his budget to so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt.”

Meanwhile, Whitaker made his first public appearance as acting attorney general on Wednesday in Iowa, his home state, and delivered remarks on “elder justice.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...ing-attorney-general

^^ Yes, I have to agree.

Wow. Just replace the suits with togas.

Interesting chart about why we lost the House - 13 states had Democrat turnout higher than in 2016. Zero states had Republican turnout higher than in 2016 and most had significantly lower turnout. Lower turnout is expected in a midterm vs. a presidential election, but the Dems definitely managed to beat the GOP in their GOTV effort this year.




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^^^ The Dems did a better job of GOTV this time, no question.
But how much of that is made up of people who ordinarily vote Dem but refused to vote for Hillary in 2016, some even crossing over to vote for Trump?

That chart may explain Sinema's win in Arizona: Republicans who voted for Kelli Ward in the primary may have stayed home.

Someone else pointed out that Republicans that embraced Trump fared far better than Republicans that shied away from Trump.

Robert Mueller doesn't seem to have much interest in ending his investigation persecution.

https://apnews.com/69b927200f784a80ae6c12b7aa3e628f

Robert Mueller isn’t done with former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates.

That’s according to a new court filing from the special counsel’s team. Prosecutors say they’re not ready for Gates to be sentenced because he is continuing to cooperate with “several ongoing investigations.” And they’re asking a federal judge to give them until mid-January before they have to give another update about his case.

The filing confirms that the investigation will extend into next year as Mueller continues to probe Russian election interference and any possible coordination with President Donald Trump’s associates.

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at this point, Mueller is much more guilty of interfering in the 2016 election than the Russians ever were

Cooperate by making shit up?

I was just thinking about the new House. If we can suppress the fact that they're fucking up our republic and think of them as The Onion on steroids, then they could provide some amusement.

We've got Pelosi Galore, Guam's-gonna-tip Hank Johnson, Sheila Jackson Lee looking for our flag on fucking Mars, Mad Max running the Finance Committee, not to mention the new socialist twat whose name I can't recall who's dumber than a dog turd. And those are just the ones that come to mind now.

Think about it! It'll be like a Marx Brothers movie with all of their sisters and cousins thrown in. This could provide almost infinite entertainment.

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the new socialist twat whose name I can't recall

That would be Occasional Cortex.