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Gothmog

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Wed Jun 12, 2019, 01:21 PM Jun 2019

Trump is telling aides he will 'sue' Democrats if they pursue impeachment: report [View all]

I do not remember covering this in Con Law back when I was in law school




Some legal scholars, Parker notes, are asserting that the idea of a U.S. president suing Congress for trying to impeach him is ludicrous. Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University, denounced Trump’s threat as “idiocy” on Twitter and posted, “Not even a SCOTUS filled with Trump appointees would get in the way of the House or Senate.”

However, attorney and Trump supporter Alan Dershowitz (who is also a Harvard Law School professor) has asserted that should Democrats pursue impeachment, the U.S. Supreme Court could intervene if the justices believed that Congress hadn’t acted constitutionally.

Dershowitz has lost it and only an idiot like trump would try this lawsuit
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Hillary should sue him for election theft DUgosh Jun 2019 #1
Thread win. CrispyQ Jun 2019 #9
THANK YOU !!! uponit7771 Jun 2019 #18
Absolutely DownriverDem Jun 2019 #37
And then some malaise Jun 2019 #45
Gotta high five that response! Generic Other Jun 2019 #47
Absolutely! Stargazer09 Jun 2019 #51
Standard tactics and threats from Trump gratuitous Jun 2019 #2
Right, hes been suing all his sorry life to further his corruption. brush Jun 2019 #44
Dersh-bag did say something along these idiotic lines, but Trump has, of course, expanded it beyond hlthe2b Jun 2019 #3
tribe has far more faith in the justices than i do rampartc Jun 2019 #4
wow if hes resorting to this, then his bag of distractions is pretty slim pickins.... samnsara Jun 2019 #5
Reopen the Epstein trial watoos Jun 2019 #6
DICKtator Donnie....Cry baby!!! ProudMNDemocrat Jun 2019 #7
Another day, another dangling of a shiny object in the faces of deplorables. KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2019 #8
"WHERE'S MY Leghorn21 Jun 2019 #10
He also thinks China and Mexico will pay his tariffs. Ligyron Jun 2019 #11
Good luck with that. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2019 #12
I LOVE reading your posts! StarfishSaver Jun 2019 #26
Thank you! The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2019 #42
(although I'd personally enjoy the spectacle) malaise Jun 2019 #46
Did they cover this concept in your law school? Gothmog Jun 2019 #49
It doesn't ring any bells for me, either. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2019 #54
America should sue Trump for emotional distress and mental anguish sop Jun 2019 #13
Any fourth grader understands think4yourself Jun 2019 #14
He will probably sue all Americans when we vote him out of office. CatMor Jun 2019 #15
This is Trump's typical reaction peggysue2 Jun 2019 #16
That's because (unlike Trump's lawyers) COLGATE4 Jun 2019 #17
Or the Trump University School of Law. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2019 #32
Is Dershowitz trying to run up billable hours? NewJeffCT Jun 2019 #19
trump does not pay which is why he has such weak lawyers working for him Gothmog Jun 2019 #24
This message was self-deleted by its author struggle4progress Jun 2019 #20
Dershowitz's argument is pure bullshit StarfishSaver Jun 2019 #21
We are in complete agreement on this Gothmog Jun 2019 #23
Yes, at BEST they are dicta. But they don't even apply to impeachment in the House StarfishSaver Jun 2019 #25
So how does this square with the Chief Justice Beausoleil Jun 2019 #31
It would be up to the full court to decide whether to take the case and it's highly unlikely StarfishSaver Jun 2019 #33
Love the last comment, PRETZEL Jun 2019 #35
Great question StarfishSaver Jun 2019 #40
The Chief Justice's role in a Senate impeachment trial The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2019 #34
Any appeal would still imply that the Beausoleil Jun 2019 #38
This does not surprise me.... dawnie51 Jun 2019 #22
The irony is that now that he's become the most powerful man on earth, he now has less power to use StarfishSaver Jun 2019 #27
Good point and I think a very valid one, and one that rump is discovering that threatening... SWBTATTReg Jun 2019 #28
Breaking out the 'ol I'll sue! saw. What a pathetic bag of tricks he carries JDC Jun 2019 #29
I think this idiocy shows how frightened he is. No lawyer of any repute would file such an action. Shrike47 Jun 2019 #30
But he does get disreputable lawyers to work for him. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2019 #43
That's a given. He sues over everything. nt Honeycombe8 Jun 2019 #36
Forthcoming response should be: sprinkleeninow Jun 2019 #39
He'll file it in Federal District Court in Moscow, Russia rurallib Jun 2019 #41
Yeah just like he was going to appeal impeachment to the Supreme Court Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2019 #48
I was on the Clinton Victory Counsel team and we look at a ton of lawsuits Gothmog Jun 2019 #50
He's not guilty, not at all liberal N proud Jun 2019 #52
FUCK HIM...let him sue. spanone Jun 2019 #53
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