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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI was a Trump transition staffer, and it's time for impeachment.
APR 23, 2019
J. W. Verret
Professor of law at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
Lets start at the end ... I read Special Counsel Robert Muellers report twice ... Ive worked on every Republican presidential transition team for the past 10 years ...
... In the face of a Department of Justice policy that prohibited him from indicting a sitting president, Mueller drafted what any reasonable reader would see as a referral to Congress to commence impeachment hearings.
... The president dangled pardons in front of witnesses to encourage them to lie to the special counsel, and directly ordered people to lie to throw the special counsel off the scent.
This elaborate pattern of obstruction may have successfully impeded the Mueller investigation from uncovering a conspiracy to commit more serious crimes ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/gop-staffer-advocates-trumps-impeachment/587785/
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)Cha
(297,148 posts)Pachamama
(16,887 posts)This.....
Lock him up.
(6,925 posts)lifelong Republicans, jurists or not, are having the same wake-up call?
'Law & Order' Republican senators will really campaign with having to defend a proven 'above-the-law' criminal monarch in front of their constituents and local papers? Really?
Or will they go tell him he has to resign instead?