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(867 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)The fucking MEDIA needs to get vocal about it and stop putting hate-filled, violent, self-righteous liars like Conway and Graham on the screen..
And trump----
The Wizard
(12,563 posts)should file a criminal complaint against Kavanaugh for sexual assault and against Trump for obstructing the investigation into Kavanaugh.
BigmanPigman
(51,717 posts)If so, why hasn't she already? I would think Avenatti would have done this by now.
The Wizard
(12,563 posts)there is no statute of limitations for sex crimes. Maybe they want to serve a summons on Kavanaugh while he's on the Bench.
BigmanPigman
(51,717 posts)to that point. Do it ASAP!
The Wizard
(12,563 posts)The DC Circuit where he currently sits.
BigmanPigman
(51,717 posts)malaise
(269,498 posts)ffr
(22,684 posts)Link to tweet
Marty Lederman @marty_lederman
Marty Lederman Retweeted Donald J. Trump
Hmmm. As Chris Wray surely knows, Don McGahn has no legal authority to direct or limit the FBI's background check. This tweeter is the only officer in the Office of the POTUS with the power to do so. So his word--not McGahn's--governs.
Link to tweet
Ian Bassin @ianbassin
Note to @FBI: whatever instructions White House staff gave you, the Presidents tweet below is actually (no, really Im not kidding) an order from the President. DOJs legal view is that a presidential order need not take any special form; if the president orders it, it counts.
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