martin (07-05-2021), PoliTalker (07-05-2021), ThatOwlWoman (07-05-2021)
That was no metaphor and it followed several speakers who urged violence. This was a Trump rally on which he selected the speakers. The pre-rally organizing pished anger and violence. Of course, scheduling a rally down the street at the same the politicians were counting the electoral vote was no cosmic accident. What happened went according to plan.
You are doing a very poor job of covering the aim of the Trump insurrection because you have nothing to cover it with. It was all done in public or online .
All those emails that Trump sent will come out in public, so your covering up will be even harder.
martin (07-05-2021), PoliTalker (07-05-2021), ThatOwlWoman (07-05-2021)
The provisions that were made at the time were considered non-compliant with emoluments considerations even as they were made.
The Justice Department having been under the Executive Branch, nothing could be done about it.
This is yet another example as to why I say that as a legal document, our Constitution would receive a D- grade in a first year Harvard Law School class.
You make a rule and then set things up to ensure that the rule is unenforceable.
Our Constitutional Convention needed fewer fucking amateur statesmen and a fucking lot more professional lawyers.
People love gentile amateur citizens in government.
Then they live with the dogshit results.
I favor the career professional pols that goody-two-shoes reformers are always trying to term limit.
I'm the archetypical example of the non-woke progressive liberal.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
ThatOwlWoman (07-05-2021)
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.
The men who wrote The Constitution are not to be confused with later generations of party politicians - there were no parties in 1787 (a reason why the purpose of the Electoral College, as in preventing an unlearned and impetuous person and opportunist like Trump from becoming President, was misconceived). Madison, who led the drafting was one of the most brilliant lawyers in the colonies and the others who participated were highly able as well. The faults are substantive - e.g., enabling the permanency of slavery and gun possession, no voting protections for women, giving citizens in smaller states greater voting power than that given citizens in large states in Presidential elections - in some cases unavoidable compromises made between the delegates to get the document approved. Before casting judgment consider the reputation of The Constitution. It gained international respect, becoming a model for other national constitutions. Among American legal scholars and at the bar there are criticisms, inevitably, but it is revered.
p.s. The Justice Department was established and made an agency under the President not by the Founders but by Congress. A violation of the Emoluments Clause would not be an issue for the Justice Department anyway.
Last edited by martin; 07-06-2021 at 01:03 PM.
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