Today's impeachment resolution .. includes a key provision that has potential to become game changer

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50. It is a novel approach that offers both inducement and a big stick. It will go hand in hand with

civil contempt charges (that will require the courts to adjudicate given the state of DOJ under BARR) but, I think when the McGahn decision comes down (soon) as well as the pending suit from Bolton's deputy, the admin will have lost their ability to scream privilege and some of these scofflaws will have to come in.

If Trump is stupid enough to believe he doesn't need to avail himself of this opportunity, he can continue to obstruct as he has to date. But, then they will add it to his articles of impeachment. And for Trump, he will lose the ability to counter public testimony which may well be the thing he fears most.


I read Laurence Tribe's book on impeachment a few weeks ago and have followed his twitter comments closely along with Neal Katyal's and Tribe's coauthor who is now assisting the House committees. There are a lot of novel aspects of this impeachment and it has been fascinating to see how they have addressed it. More surprises are sure to come up as Trump is anything but predictable and has no filter on words or actions it seems, so...