In Court he speaks for Speaker Nancy Pelosi

[saidsimplesimon]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/in-court-he-speaks-for-speaker-nancy-pelosi/ar-BBYlgTJ

Washington Post

In court, he speaks for Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Ann Marimow 13 hrs ago
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That fall day has come to represent a typical schedule for Letter, the genial, self-deprecating lead lawyer for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). After a 40-year career at the Justice Department, defending policies of presidential administrations from both parties, Letter now speaks for the speaker in courtrooms throughout the country while advising House leaders on impeachment.

Letter is slated to represent the House at the Supreme Court, which will review two rare separation-of-powers cases over disclosure of Trump’s tax and financial records in March.

And in back-to-back hearings Jan. 3 at the federal appeals court in Washington, Letter will explain why the judges should give the House access to secret evidence from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia investigation. His colleague, Megan Barbero, will then ask the court to uphold a ruling forcing McGahn to appear before a House committee despite White House efforts to block his testimony.

“Because of the stonewalling by the Trump administration and the insistence on going to court on every kind of thing, it’s very demanding with multiple opponents and multiple cases,” said Irv Nathan, who held Letter’s position the first time Pelosi was speaker, starting in 2007. “The job is on steroids.”
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[Scarsdale]

1. The SC needs to explain WHY

tRump is given special treatment regarding his financial businesses. Explain why the Emolument Clause does not seem to be applied to him? Will future presidential contenders be able to skirt all the rules the way he does? Are we heading to elect a KING in the future? Is this president above all the laws that applied to previous office holders? Is so - WHY?

[NewJeffCT]

3. Sadly, the system is broken on Emoluments and criminality

The lawsuits on Emoluments started in 2017 and have been winning and progressing through the courts. The other main way would be to ask the Justice Department to enforce the law, but Barr has already said that Emoluments doesn't apply to Trump for some reason or another - Unitary Executive or something?

And, the main way to enforce subpoenas would be to make a criminal referral to the Dept of Justice, who could then arrest the person violating the subpoena - and, Barr is going to quash those attempts. I think he already did it with Erik Prince and a few others.

[usaf-vet]

2. SCOTUS with a strong conservative leaning has already ruled in 2000 that special rules can apply....

... to only republicans. Bush v Gore

[calimary]

4. It makes me wonder if we should start imposing term limits

on judges and justices.

[usaf-vet]

5. Absolutely! House, Senate, SCOTUS, Federal Courts,

Now that Citizen United has allowed money to buy all those seats we need to use whatever we can to restrict one party or political mindset to control our lives from birth to death.