Yes he did.

Identity

Pardon?

Will Trump try a pre-emptive pardon for himself and his accomplices?



Yup, that's the thought I woke up with. I need coffee.


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They asked me to make an invitation for our annual dinner . . .

. . . so I did.






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Who will be first?

Who will be the first member of Team Trump to seek asylum in Moscow?


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Shes a lawyer too: Trumps Supreme Court pick snaps at Amy Klobuchar

Donald Trump’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy, Neil Gorsuch, lost his cool under the intensity of  Senator Amy Klobuchar’s questioning during the confirmation hearing. Breaking from his generally overly-polished presentation, Gorsuch appeared visibly irritated, interrupted the Senator, raised his voice, and spoke to her in a remarkably patronizing manner.

Notably, before being elected as the first woman to the U.S. Senate for Minnesota, Klobuchar graduated from Yale, earned a law degree from University of Chicago, and headed the largest prosecutor’s office in her state for eight years.
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GORSUCH: Can I answer you, Senator, ’cause I’m almost there. Okay. So I write to point out this conflict in the supreme court’s directions that I saw.

KLOBUCHAR: Okay.

GORSUCH: And then I said in our case, Byron White, it doesn’t matter. Because Colorado couldn’t meet even rational basis test, forget about whether it’s strict scrutiny or something close to strict scrutiny, it couldn’t meet rational basis test because Colorado couldn’t articulate any good reason, maybe there’s one out there, I don’t know, but they have articulated nothing.

KLOBUCHAR: Okay, but, let’s continue with other cases because it’s a bit of a pattern.

http://shareblue.com/shes-a-lawyer-too-trumps-supreme-court-pick-snaps-at-amy-klobuchar/


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Gorsuchs Bizarre Unforced Error on Partisan Judges

Seth Masket, political science professor at the University of Denver, calls out U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch for a fairly surprising misstatement during confirmation hearings:

https://twitter.com/YahooNews/status/844184009949220864/photo/1


Masket is correct: the states of Alabama, Illinois, Louisiana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia all hold partisan elections to their state supreme courts. In addition, 20 states hold partisan elections for trial court judges. Several other states have a “hybrid” system of partial partisan elections for the judiciary.

So, what’s the deal with this? We don’t think it rises to the level of perjury, being an apparently innocent misstatement. But Gorsuch is being sold as one of the nation’s greatest legal minds, and there’s just no excuse for him not knowing full well that many parts of America indeed have “Republican judges” and “Democratic judges.”
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- See more at: http://www.coloradopols.com/diary/93067/gorsuchs-bizarre-unforced-error-on-partisan-judges#sthash.qDthz6Ov.dpuf


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Is Gorsuch dissembling?

Gorsuch says he has no knowledge of Supreme Court justices comporting with special interests who have cases pending before the court. Seriously?? He’s not aware of circumstances that have been part of the public conversation, especially since the Citizens United decision? Really, sir? REALLY???


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Reuters is reporting (accdg. to Maddow)

that Tillerson is planning to skip the NATO meeting next month, but will make time to visit Moscow next month.

Really. The only question is, why doesn't he just defect and get it over with?


Unbefuckingdamnlievable.


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Now THIS is as it should be.

Trump is rallying his base, and only Fox is showing it. Neither CNN nor MSNBC is showing it, not even a split-screen. About damned time.


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