'The jig is up': Conservative warns Trump officials that courts give them no choice but to testify

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‘The jig is up’: Conservative warns Trump officials that courts give them no choice but to testify

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/the-jig-is-up-conservative-warns-trump-officials-that-courts-give-them-no-choice-but-to-testify/

Published 4 hours ago on December 31, 2019


On Tuesday, Never Trump conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin blasted senior Trump officials in the Washington Post, warning them that “the jig is up” and they have no legitimate excuse not to testify about the president in the Senate trial.

“On Monday, a federal judge dismissed a case brought by Charles Kupperman, a former deputy national security adviser, asserting an ‘absolute immunity’ to protect him from testifying,” wrote Rubin. “That leaves a ruling by Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson rejecting in scathing terms a similar claim of ‘absolute immunity’ in a case involving former White House counsel Donald McGahn as the final word, for now, on current and former executive branch employees’ testimony.”


Now that the courts have made this decision, Rubin argued, officials like former National Security Adviser John Bolton and White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney must testify in the Senate.
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“Bolton can no longer rely on the Kupperman case, and the relevant precedent is now the McGahn case,” wrote Rubin. “Coupled with the blockbuster New York Times story revealing the behind-the-scenes efforts of senior officials including Bolton to release aid to Ukraine that President Trump illegally withheld to gain leverage and force an announcement from Ukraine of an investigation of former vice president Joe Biden, removal of Bolton’s last excuse (i.e., awaiting a Kupperman ruling) now requires both houses of Congress to proceed to get to the bottom of this.”....................................

[jberryhill]

1. Hardly

“the final word, for now” simply means that the next one can start over at the district court level.

The fact of the matter is that Bolton has not been subpoenaed.

This is the third to-round for this odd notion that dismissal of the Kupperman case somehow requires Bolton to testify.

[C_U_L8R]

2. The jig is up??? Really???!!!!

Do Republicans instinctively reach for a horrifically racist term at any occasion?

(on edit; yes there are multiple origins of the phrase but you'd think they'd be slightly aware of the implications, geez)

[padfun]

6. OK, I had to look that one up because I didnt see a racial thing.

But one site did mention that is was a slang.
Some of us never heard that term in any racial way.
To me, a jig or jigs were used in machine shops.

It might be area specific as I have been in the west my entire life. I never heard that used in any way but tools and in that saying.

[SCVDem]

8. Young people may not know it.

Let's hope "N" dies the same death.

Not all connotations of the' jig is up' were bad. Most were gangsters and cops when the plan was blown.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Yes, really. You may well be way off base with your implication of the phrase's origin

For your consideration:

Yes, according to the Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, by Robert Hendrickson, it states that this expression was used during Elizabethan times (mid-to-late 16th century). During these times, the word “jig” became slang for a practical joke or trick. Thus, if “the jig was up,” it meant your trick was found out, or exposed.

https://knowyourphrase.com/jig-is-up

[Happy Hoosier]

11. Thanks.. was going to post that...

Thee phrase pre-dates English Colonies in the Americas.

[Maraya1969]

13. I had no idea that that word was a negative.

[bitterross]

3. They will appeal the other district's ruling

As they should. The SCOTUS needs to settle this question once and for all.

Let's hope they keep in mind that it will not always be a Republican in the Oval Office. So they actually rule fairly.

[ooky]

12. Sounds like a great reason for Nancy Pelosi to wait before sending the articles

of impeachment. Should carry us into next year.

[Baked Potato]

4. Bolton doesn't want to give it up for free, he wants to put it in a tell all book... IMO

Wants them bucks for suffering through Dump.

[rainin]

5. Why can't the house subpoena all of them now?

Can's relevant committees call them in for oversight purposes?

[TeamPooka]

7. You would think yes

[Danascot]

9. Each subpoena should come with a footnote

reminding the recipient that penalties for defying a subpoena is imprisonment for up to 5 years and/or fines.