Maddow tonight

[cilla4progress]

Is story telling how

OUR CURRENT GOVERNMENT IS A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE

Kushner connections; Flynn and Russia...

I am so stymied why we can't stop this.

[uponit7771]

1. ... and it looks like the KGOP did an investigation into Carter's divested peanut farm at one time

... which lead no where.

Seems like Rs (Russia) have been angry since Nixon

[JI7]

2. every fucking news media should be reporting these FACTS that Rachel reports on

[oasis]

3. Lock him up.

[iluvtennis]

4. I'm with you on why this can't be stopped. I'm very pissed that there is NOTHING that can be done..

...why can't the Judicial branch step in?? We know Legislative branch won't do a damn thing.

[elmac]

5. we can't stop this because

the foxes are guarding the hen house

[Skidmore]

9. And a contingent of the chickens

are supporting them because they believe the foxes will open the granary and they wiil get more corn.

[BainsBane]

6. We are witnessing the rapid decline of American government

a descent into cleptocracy.

[Cha]

7. Hopefully it's just not the right time, YET!

[ecstatic]

8. I've found a glimmer of hope. Apparently some big time lawsuits

are working their way through our system. I'm going to donate to any organization fighting this cause.

Washington, D.C.—An association of more than 200 restaurants and thousands of restaurant workers this morning joined Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s (CREW) landmark emoluments lawsuit against President Trump, along with a luxury hotel event booker. The restaurants joined as part of Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United, which consists of more than 25,000 restaurant workers and restaurants owned by restaurateurs including Tom Colicchio, Alice Waters, Andy Shalal and James Mallios.

CREW, ROC and Washington, DC-based events booker Jill Phaneuf are represented in the case by an all-star team of top constitutional scholars, ethics experts and litigators who have combined to argue 45 cases before the Supreme Court. The lawyers on the case include CREW’s board chair and vice-chair Norman Eisen and Richard Painter, the top ethics lawyers for the last two presidents, constitutional law scholars Erwin Chemerinsky, Laurence H. Tribe and Zephyr Teachout, Deepak Gupta of Gupta Wessler PLLC and Joseph Sellers of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC.

“With the filing of our amended complaint, I have no doubt that President Trump and his battalion of attorneys have no legal ground to stand on and must soon face the constitutional music,” said Tribe. “The time for dodging, weaving, and distracting from his corrupt practices has run out.”

“This lawsuit, and the revised Complaint, uphold one of the most basic aspects of the rule of law: no one, including the President, is above the law,” Chemerinsky said. “Every minute of every day, President Trump is receiving benefits from foreign governments and from the United States government in clear violation of the Emoluments Clauses of the Constitution. This lawsuit is simply to ensure that the President complies with the law.”

http://www.citizensforethics.org/press-release/update-new-plaintiffs-join-crew-emoluments-suit/

And that's not the only set of lawsuits. Thing is, it will take some time. Until then, I've decided to tune trump out as much as possible.

[cilla4progress]

10. Interesting

Thanks!

[maxsolomon]

11. It's not hard to figure out why "we" are "stymied"

WE DON'T CONTROL EITHER BRANCH OF CONGRESS.

&

investigations take time.

I'm sure it will all be sorted by January 2025.

[cilla4progress]

12. Well once upon a time people did the right thing

even when they weren't the party in power.

Although have not researched and do not know who the majority in each Chamber of Congress was during Joe McCarthy's rampage, Watergate.

Anyone?

[maxsolomon]

13. the only time i remember country over party was watergate

and I wasn't even 10.