Trump high-fives Fox News for advocating Senate dismissal of impeachment on 51 procedural votes

[Miles Archer]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

“It’s my opinion as a lawyer that the Articles of Impeachment are defective on their face, which means I would like to see a Motion to Dismiss and have this disbursed without the necessity of a trial. I don’t think there should be a trial. I think it should be dismissed....

2:41 PM · Dec 31, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump...on 51 votes, which is procedural. You don’t need two thirds.” Brad Blakeman @FoxNews A great lawyer & person. Thank you Brad!

2:41 PM · Dec 31, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

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[doc03]

1. Now that stupid sob is a lawyer

[regnaD kciN]

2. All the more reason to hold back the Articles...

...until Republicans start getting serious.

[underpants]

3. Do I have to google Brad Blakeman now?

Who?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. I googled him for you:

Bradley A. Blakeman is currently teaching at Georgetown University’s 2010 Spring Semester in Washington Program, and is also a Senior Advisor to Georgetown University's Global Education Institute. Prior to joining Georgetown, he was the President of Freedom’s Watch, a right of center conservative advocacy 501 C4. Prior to founding Freedom’s Watch, Mr. Blakeman was a member of President George W. Bush’s Senior Staff having served from 2001-2004 as Deputy Assistant to the President for Appointments and Scheduling, Vetting and Research, Correspondence and Surrogate Scheduling. Mr. Blakeman can be seen regularly as a Republican Strategist on FOX News, MSNBC, BBC, CNN, Sky News and Al Jezeera. He also is published regularly in Politico, US News and World Report, Newsmax and Foxnews.com. Mr. Blakeman played a major role in the 2000 Presidential Election as a Senior Advisor and played a critical role in the Florida Recount, a role that landed him a part as a character in the HBO Film “Recount”. He has also been an advisor on the ABC TV Drama Series “Commander in Chief”. Mr. Blakeman is an Attorney licensed to practice in that State of New York and the District of Columbia and is currently a Principal with the 1600 Group LLC, a private corporation dedicated to providing strategic advice as well as crisis management and communications strategies to foreign governments and foreign and domestic corporations. Mr. Blakeman has been active in Presidential Politics since 1980. He was appointed to serve as a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council during the George H.W. Bush Administration. Mr. Blakeman currently serves on the Board of Directors of Sportsfanscoalition.org, a not for profit advocacy group.

https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014Rb09AAC/bradley-blakeman

[underpants]

6. Thanks

Happy New Year

[Baitball Blogger]

4. T.V. lawyers should be charged with malpractice if they provide false, legal advice.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. A lawyer's duty is only to his client, who is the only person who can sue him for malpractice.

If somebody is stupid enough to take a TV lawyer's advice, especially that of a Trump toady on Fox, they deserve what they get.

[onenote]

8. Brad Blakeman is not a "great" lawyer. He's not even a good lawyer.

And he's not a Constitutional lawyer.

He graduated from a bottom feeding law school, Touro, which US News ranks in its 146-192 category (meaning that there are anywhere from 145 to 191 schools ranked higher).

He is an "adjunct" professor at Georgetown, but has no publications listed in his bio and the list of courses he has taught do not include any in constitutional law.

He labels himself "Hon" even though his position in the Bush White House was, and I'm not making this up, "Deputy Assistant to the President for Appointments and Scheduling, Vetting and Research, Correspondence and Surrogate Scheduling."

His assertion that the Articles are "defective on their face" is itself a statement that is, on its face, clearly wrong since there is no definition of the term "high crimes and misdemeanors" and previous impeachment proceedings have been based on obstruction of Congress and abuse of office.

The only conclusion I can reach is that Blakeman is such a bad lawyer that he doesn't even understand the commonly used legal phrase "on their face."

[COLGATE4]

10. All absolutely correct. However, none of that will prevent

the Fux-imbibing knuckle draggers from cheering this latest nonsense on as vindicating their hero.

[New Breed Leader]

9. Schiff clapped back nt