Next up? Rachel Brand

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It's becoming clear to me that tRump will either remove Rosenstein or force a recusal to get his hand picked person in charge of Mueller. That way she can stall, withhold resources, or outright fire Mueller.

Rachel Brand

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Brand

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. The special counsel can only be fired for cause.

The political fallout for revenge firing would be nuclear.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Obama contributors on staff

Cause.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. Cause as reasonably construed.

[Loki Liesmith]

5. "Fired for cause" permits a court challenge

Doubt that would hold up in court.

[BeyondGeography]

6. Well, that takes time and mucks things up quite a bit, doesn't it?

They will come up with some nonsense, we can be sure.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. If Trump really wants Mueller gone he can likely get his way.

The bottom line is impeachment is a political process. Presumably such a rash act would bring us closer to it, either by the GOP House doing it now or a Democratic House doing it in 2019.

[BeyondGeography]

9. Watergate came down to congressional Republicans stepping up

This will be no different.

He makes it to Jan. 2019. When the House is gone, Mitch will set things up for Pence.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. Two points.

Pence makes Ford look like Bernie Sanders.

Ford was smart enough to never vouch for Nixon's character.

[BeyondGeography]

11. My thought is at least Pence won't blow up the world while he's sucking at being President

And we win in '20 no matter what happens. But the toll we're paying now is very, very steep.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. Ford passes the beer test. Pence doesn't. The latter is a smarmy fuck.

[BeyondGeography]

13. That's not the choice here

Ford was a good man though. Especially looking back.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. He refused to stay at a hotel that wouldn't allow his black teammate at U of M to stay there.

He wrote an amicus brief in favor of the University Of Michigan's affirmative action plan when it was challenged in SCOTUS.

[Dream Girl]

7. That would mean half or more of persons would not qualify under that line of reasoning

People have a right to their political choices and can still be assumed to be unbiased professionals. Under that line of reasoning, only republicans who voted for Trump could qualify to investigate Trump. That is just plain silly. I know that's not your thinking, but you're just pointing out their argument, but on its face it is specious.

[leftstreet]

3. They renamed Geo Mason Law School, 'Antonin Scalia Law School?'

Just eeeewwwww!