Trial Of The Millenium

I'm not seriously expected to watch this, am I?

However, I am curious whether Chief Justice Roberts would endorse this view about Senate trials and super-subpoenas:

“With the backing of a subpoena authorized by the chief justice of the United States, you can end President Trump’s obstruction,” said Representative Zoe Lofgren of California, the first woman in history to speak on the Senate floor as an impeachment manager.

Awkward, since the role of the chief justice has been presented as ceremonial. If Roberts rules the motion for a subpoena to be in order does that mean that, if an executive privilege claim reaches the Supreme Court he has already taken a position?

Or... does it mean that the subpoena applies to a person but does not automatically over-ride all privilege claims? For example, suppose Rudy Giuliani is a subpoenaed Senate witness. I presume he could answer some questions, cite attorney-client on some, and perhaps his Fifth Amendment non-incrimination right on others. That would represent compliance with the subpoena, unless the Senate wanted to take his privilege claims to court and get a ruing that he is in contempt of the Senate for failing to answer some questions. I think.

I am highly confident that CJ Roberts does not intend to get sucked into this foodfight.

BONUS FANTASY: If there is a merciful G*d in Heaven, or if the showrunners and scriptwriters have some character, we will have a moment where Rudy is asked by one of the House managers if he is trying to show contempt for Congress. PLEASE, let Rudy channel his inner Mae West and reply, "Sir, I'm trying to hide it."

I should live so long.

 

Comments

[henry]

@WSJ

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine sued President Trump’s inaugural committee and his family business, alleging that the committee overpaid the Trump Organization’s Washington hotel for event space to enrich the company

[MissMarple2]

Marine One comes in for a night landing on the South Lawn of the WH (#NTABP). Pres Trump did not stop for any press questions. pic.twitter.com/LtuhpGWqiy

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) January 22, 2020

Photo at the link.

[MissMarple2]

henry,

And to which party does the DC Attorney General belong, and why has it taken them THREE YEARS to discover they might have overpaid?

[henry]

@WSJ

Lawmakers approved the Brexit divorce deal, ensuring that the U.K. will leave the European Union at the end of the month

[joan]

anonamom, I just typed a long comment about that Eli Lake Commentary article then deleted it -- he was so 'objective' -- made me want to stick a fork in his eye. The media is free of bias and not political-- or something, blah, blah, blah.

It made me sick with anger when I read this:

"In any case, the “deep-state” theory suggests there is a governmental hive mind, an unelected bureaucracy that runs things while officials like Comey sit on top, clueless and imagining themselves powerful.

"You can see how the “deep-state” theory might let the actual saboteurs off the hook. Comey, McCabe, Brennan, and others had a mix of motivations for making the decisions that they did. To say they were acting on behalf of an unelected bureaucracy is to absolve them."

Absolve them????????????

[Jack is Back (Again)!]

Watch how the UK and USA make a big trade deal. Deal with it Euros.

[anonamom]

Sekulow on w Brett: "Quite confident of where this is going."
"Impeachment not designed to address policy differences."
"Idea that this reaches impeachment is absurd."
"Not concerned about witnesses. Prepared for every contingency."

[John S]

Joan, ridiculing the idea of a deep state is a great example of leftists always making a super-technical interpretation of something Trump says, i.e. taking him literally but not seriously. Every week we hear about federal employees saying they are working to bring down Trump from within

[Sidwhite]

Jane,
I am way behind. I just saw your TV problem and maybe your Outdoor TV / remote issue had been resolved, but it sounds like a "source" issue to me. I'm guessing that you source is not set on the HDMI from the cable but is on Wifi or some other input? Hope this has already been resolved by the excellent brain trust here at JOM. May not be the issue but I will find out later tonight when I catch up.

[joan]

Yes, John S, and how Lake could write such a long article, detailing all of the ways the FBI and members of the previous administration abused their position and our laws without Lake showing a bit of outrage is astounding.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Eli Lake is like Paul Mirengoff; they know the truth, but it might upset their little picnic so they only admit half of it so they can keep gnawin that drumstick and tater salad like everything's ok and there isn't a tornado headed their way.
Pretending the tools on top are oblivious rather than co-conspirators is a Goliath of a strawman but strawmen of any size don't fair too well in twisters.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

CNN Can't Fathom It: Sanders Leading In Their Own National Poll.

A modern Diogenes would search fruitlessly for just one Dem honest enough to admit they hate Sanders because he's open about the intentions they conceal.

[joan]

I don't have the vocabulary to express how angry I am about this dark-fantasy impeachment and the chief fairy-in-charge.

[henry]

Schiff still hogging the spotlight?

[Catsmeat]

Prayers for you and your family, rse--you have been through such a lot already!

Men before women: Schumer, Blumenthal, Sanders, Kaine, Leahy, Lee,Romney, Warren, Harris, Hirono--see? bipartisan!

I think only some of you read Gulliver's Travels by Swift in high school. First he meets the Liliputians (little people), then a host of others including the Brogdingnagians (giants), Laputians (people who carry all the words they need in actual form in satchels on their backs), Yahoos (ape-like people--basically what Swift thinks of ordinary people), and the Houyhnhyms (wise horses, better than people). When he returns to England at the end of his travels, he can't stand the stink of people and spends his time in the stables with the horses.

[Catsmeat]

Oh, and Ig, if you are going to keep writing such lapidary Swiftian prose you are going to have to get used to us calling for you to get a larger audience, even if just Milady's Boudoir!

[MissMarple2]

March for Life
@March_for_Life

· 1h
The March for Life is honored to announce @realDonaldTrump will be the first U.S. President to speak at the March for Life Rally. Thank you, President Trump, for being a voice for the unborn and continuously working to build a culture of life.
https://bit.ly/2NQp5wW

[clarice]

https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/15/democrats-concede-their-impeachment-argument-is-failing/?fbclid=IwAR1yojh7Za72XiLOSaeFcrFNYfpJ7NR14nJDaGSVlz_pm8xzLu2FlE6c0w8

Me, too, Joan!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

ChaCo at PJM;
What We Can Learn About Impeachment [and Democrats] From Slime Molds.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Silly Feminist, Screenshots are Forever! Dem Hack Deletes Tweets Mocking Kellyanne Conway's Looks.

As someone in comments points out, the only thing wrong with Conway's looks is the 300 pound tumor growing out of her side named George.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--I don't have the vocabulary to express how angry I am about this dark-fantasy impeachment and the chief fairy-in-charge.--

Perhaps Captain Hate will ghost write one for you. :)

[Jane]

Sidwhite,

Solved about 4;oo pm and not by me. My friend thinks I need a new cable wire but he fixed it,

Ugly ugly day in Florida - coldest since I’ve been here. Will hit 70 tomorrow MM, so don’t worry.

[Another Bob]

The moar better part about that dumb bitch comparing herself to Kellyanne was her using war references to justify it. She makes a point of including her “service” as a JAG in her bio.

Yeah. A real warfighter. (rolls eyes)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I would be happy to write a column for Milady's Boudoir on What the Well Dressed Cat Skinner is Wearing. :)

[clarice]

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/355626/
Byron York on the lie about Clinton turning over 90k records to Congress.

[MissMarple2]

Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
·
39m
The media silence on this is incredible. You guys think they’d show me the same level of total privacy if I was avoiding paying CHILD SUPPORT???
🤔🙄

GTFOH!

Hunter Biden renting $12,000-per-month Hollywood home while defying child support suit.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/hunter-biden-renting-12-000-per-month-hollywood-home-while-defying-child-support-suit

[clarice]

TODAY prosecutors hand over documents to Flynn "inadvertently omitted" from earlier production:https://twitter.com/big_cases/status/1220024629521195008?fbclid=IwAR1aU1SFhsZ_fn5jIwvZ1QGZnKK1mmv8O6bq_ca5pKJPITAejuFGsG5TeWM

[MissMarple2]

clarice,

What ARE those papers? I don't know what any of the numbers or letters mean.

[Melinda]

CH-

Teaser at the bottom of this Schweizer promo at Breitbart is just for you:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/22/four-bombshells-revealed-in-peter-schweizers-profiles-in-corruption/

[Narciso]

How about judge sullivan sanctiom the prosecutors, i know i can dream

https://www.usatoday.com/documents/6668359-Notice-Other/

[lyle]

Huzzah, Ig!

I invite all intrepid JOMers to join me in Sun Valley to cure your Peach Mint Blues. It’s quite beautiful and no one gives a shit about anything in DC. Well, at least the folks walking their pups out Trail Creek. Cheers!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Have the FBI, the DoJ or the Democrats done a single thing advertently in the history of the Republic?

[Narciso]

Why cant we have houhynum, in the senate.

[clarice]

mm, I have no idea.

[lyle]

I plan on questioning all my ski lift mates tomorrow on their Peach Mint preferences. NOT!

[Melinda]

Hinkenlooper has cash problems? As in slush funds? Awww.

https://twitter.com/NRSC/status/1218220015763193870

I like this new attack mode button they've installed.

[Jane]

Mel,

My copy arrives tomorrow. Can’t wait.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Is Sun Valley where that wooden-Indian Redford parks his facial moles and warts all winter, lyle?

[lyle]

Have the FBI, the DoJ or the Democrats done a single thing advertently in the history of the Republic?

Is this a trick question?

[lyle]

Wrong resort and state, Ig. Sadly, Jawn F’ing Kerry pollutes this neck o’ the woods periodically.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I have to wonder what methods the gentle Chinese authorities are using to quarantine a city of 11 million people, many of whom may already be carriers and who simultaneously no doubt are quite determined to not be stuck in a pest hole, even if it means hoofing it.

[Narciso]

Herb allen hangs out there no. Or did.

[clarice]

REDFORD IS IN JACKSON HOLE.

Iggy, all flights and trains out of Wuhan have been cancelled.

[Narciso]

Thats about new york citys population now, the 7th largest city in china.

[MissMarple2]

Jane,

Thanks for the weather forecast.

Daughter is coming down with some sort of flu/virus. She is talking to the airline now about rescheduling.

Poor thing! She has been looking forward to this all week and then to get sick!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Is this a trick question?--

Was just noting that no matter what they do or how egregious it is, it's always inadvertent.
Was just wondering if they had ever done anything not inadvertently which presumably would then be advertent. :)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Iggy, all flights and trains out of Wuhan have been cancelled.--

I know. Just sayin, if this keeps up there's gonna be a whole lot of people trying to get out of there any way they can.

[Narciso]

They inadvertently land an expeditionary force near fidels summer cottage.

[Another Bob]

“ My copy arrives tomorrow.”

Jane, if you had a Kindle (or app) you’d have it now ;)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Stringing a wire about 6'4" above the ski run should take care of your Kerryitis problem, lyle.

[lyle]

advertent

adjective

attentive; heedful.

—Related forms
ad·vert·ent·ly, adverb

QED

[Another Bob]

Hillary: 'Sanders Would Be More Likable If He'd Just Have The People Who Don't Like Him Assassinated'

https://babylonbee.com/news/hillary-sanders-would-be-more-likable-if-hed-just-have-the-people-who-dont-like-him-assassinated

[Captain Hate]

CH-

Teaser at the bottom of this Schweizer promo at Breitbart is just for you:

The Restraining Order? I'm still waiting for the hapless state GOP to make eradicating that stain a priority.

[lyle]

I’m thinking 6’, Ig.

Corta la cabeza del cuerpo, si quiere.

Of course he’d blame it on his SS crew...

[Narciso]

Theres also landing the 7th cavalry right into the heart of the enemy camp in the ladrang valley.

[lyle]

That is, his disembodied head...

[lyle]

Paul Allen, narc.

[Narciso]

Appatently there was a proviso in the appropriations bill that said unallocated foreigm aid becomes part of pentagon stocks.

[lyle]

Redford is Park City, UT, Clarice.

[Narciso]

Why did i think it was herb, i stand corrected.

Im sure once you set a splay burn around the target 'it will be fine'

[lyle]

Undoubtedly, he might swan about in JH, in all fairness.

[MissMarple2]

Going to bed to read my Doug Wead book.

Mytol!

[Narciso]

Yes men in black reference was intended.

[Buckeye]

Chinese New Year starts on Saturday.

A big chunk of the millions wanting in or out of Wuhan are going to defy this quarantine.

Think Thanksgiving, Christmas and 4th of July all mixed together, and a compelling desire to be with family and friends.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Just for the record, during those years I used to watch CNBC John Harwood was the most vile, biased, bone-headed twit on that network by a country mile and that's a place where Steve Liesman worked.
Quite a high bar to clear, but little Johnny was up to the task.

[Another Bob]

Former NFL receiver Antonio Brown has a warrant for his arrest over a burglary and assault.

The Philadelphia Flyers *mascot* Gritty has been accused of punching a child.

Meme: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EO7mx3CX4AAsDeR?format=jpg&name=large

[Narciso]

So is going to cnn a promotion, or demotion.

[Narciso]

Hes a slithy tove all right.

[Catsmeat]

The cat skinner costume starts with a leather apron, Ig, but you can go from there!

[Narciso]

Seems likr the verse version of lovecraft

https://www.amazon.com/Jabberwocky-Criterion-Collection-Blu-ray-Michael/dp/B074QW829B/ref=asc_df_B074QW829B/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=241965985900&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7442679221470220128&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9011523&hvtargid=pla-491001232536&psc=1

[D]

RSE:
Prayers for your entire family especially your husband and your dad.
Please keep us posted.
You have been sorely tested but you are a strong person.
I have been shut out from JOM for 3 days.
During that time I turned the big 70 and had a wonderful family party.
Saw the movie 1917 and will meet my best friend for lunch tomorrow and high school pals on Friday!
Enjoyed lurking and glad to hear from some new posters
TC and OL : excellent points and I reserve judgment on the ultimate outcome of this impeachment fiasco.

[clarice]

Happy belated birthday Mary Rose.

[Narciso]

Ive felt in the phantom zone more than a few teams d.

It is a powerful film, in the way it reveals the aftermath of war.

[Narciso]

And belated happy birthday.

[Captain Hate]

Former NFL receiver Antonio Brown has a warrant for his arrest over a burglary and assault.

He's a major train wreck in progress. I saw a really ugly video featuring him completely out of his mind. Does he have any family who can intercede?

[DrJ]

For some good news, I have signed a commitment letter with NIH for my overhead rates. There still are a couple of steps to go, but we are nearing the end.

There is a warning that the process can take "up to six months." Mine will take about 11 months.

In the mean time, I've essentially had to cover all of my overhead costs. These costs are real. Of course there is no way to recover my personal expense in covering them, though I can recover what was not paid earlier, and it really messes up my taxes.

[Captain Hate]

Happy birthday, maryrose.

[Narciso]

Good news dr. J

[sbwaters]

Our ship was to depart San Juan at 6:00 but the Oasis if the Seas berthed next to us loads a man overboard and the port has closed. Strange having boats searching dark water next to us.

[Narciso]

Why does it take so long?

[Theo]

Ig —

Re the article for Milady’s Boudouir. It might be interesting to learn what the cat skinner is wearing, but it might be even better to get a description of what Milady is NOT wearing.

[sbwaters]

Not loads. Has

[Narciso]

Ok whose the cat skinner?

[DrJ]

narc, they claim they are severely understaffed, which probably is true. It also does not help that I'm very small fry.

Supposedly they expedited the process. Without my complaining it would have taken even longer.

[Another Bob]

CH, as expected, he has sympathizers blaming CTE acquired courtesy of Vontaze Burfict.

Just as likely it’s a psychiatric problem combined with drugs, given he need not worry about NFL testing.

Had it all, about to throw it all away.

[DrJ]

rse, you've been through a lot lately. Best wishes!

Happy birthday, Mary Rose!

[Catsmeat]

Merest flight of fancy from Ig to ward off having to write for Milady's Boudoir!

[Theo]

I don’t think Ig would mind all that much writing for Milady’s Boudouir. Especially if on location reporting is involved.

[Narciso]

Burkman and wohl seem to behind that silly rumor about schiff, ok i call enemy action.

[Narciso]

Wellthey made many tv stations happy for a while

https://mobile.twitter.com/rkylesmith/status/1219978904968093697

[clarice]

Grim Grimms:https://www.history.com/news/the-dark-side-of-the-grimm-fairy-tales

[Narciso]

Yikes, then again its better than the dreary fog aondheim left, and lets not speak of wicked.

[Buckeye]

Happy Birthday Maryrose!

[clarice]

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/buttigiegs-hollow-military-bragging/

[Another Bob]

SBW, well that sucks. And a 4-5 hour delay seems unlikely to get made up without some disruption to the itinerary.

[Melinda]

Happy belated birthday, MR!

[Threadkiller]

Happy birthday Maryrose!

[lyle]

HB, mr/D!

[Another Bob]

Videos and pictures coming out of police physically blocking entrances and ticket booths of a Wuhan train station Thursday morning.

[Narciso]

A rather cold blooded calculus

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3047070/china-facing-negative-economic-impact-wuhan-coronavirus-less