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In reply to the discussion: Nothing will happen with Sessions. He is a Republican. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)And I think it brings up assertions that Dems are trying to "wipe our asses on the Constitution" if we even try. The clause means that a sitting legislator (and he was one) can't be arrested at work, or going to/from work and he can't be questioned about his behavior while doing those things--remember Ted Kennedy's kid who drove his car up the steps while "going to work" in the pre-dawn hours high as a kite on booze and Ambien? He was "going to work" so he didn't "go to jail" (he got a ride home from the Capitol police, once they figured out who he was). He insisted he wasn't drinking at the time, but it turned out he'd had a few pops at a local bar earlier in the evening. And then there's Wilbur Mills--pulled over quite late at night for driving drunk whereupon his paramour, a stripper named Fanne Fox known as the Argentine Firecracker went swimming in the Tidal Basin--if that were you or me, we'd be hauled off for it, not bundled up and taken home. The interpretation of "going to and from work" is as broad as the definition of what constitutes work. If they're in DC, those legislators, and Congress is even close to being in session, they pretty much get outta jail free, and the cops know it--their protocol for dealing with a member of the legislature is different than that for dealing with you or me. Old Wilbur even managed to hang on to his Ways and Means gig for awhile, until he turned up shitfaced at a burlesque house in Boston - then he deconstructed under his own steam and finally left public life (though he was re-elected once before that happened).
Sessions was a Senator at the time of his testimony. The man was "at work." Tribe always loves to exercise that document to its limits and while there's nothing wrong with trying that in usual circumstances, these are unusual ones where our entire government, save the judiciary and the deep state, are in thrall to the GOP who are apparently in thrall to the Russians. A better tactic is to get him recused, then trip him up on his "amended" responses (come on, Deep State!) and then get him GONE. Let him assist the FBI with their inquiries (i.e., sing like a canary) in order to avoid charges of treason--he could do it quietly and hardly anyone would ever know.
We know that there was a FISA warrant out if they recorded Flynn with Sergey K--how wide is that net? Who else is on the shit list? It's entirely unsurprising that "Melissa Spicer" shook everyone down and checked their phones at the WH--I'd not be surprised there's a warrant out there with Donald's name on it, too.