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Showing Original Post only (View all)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
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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 Trumps 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 hadnt acted constitutionally.
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 hadnt acted constitutionally.
Dershowitz has lost it and only an idiot like trump would try this lawsuit
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Trump is telling aides he will 'sue' Democrats if they pursue impeachment: report [View all]
Gothmog
Jun 2019
OP
Dersh-bag did say something along these idiotic lines, but Trump has, of course, expanded it beyond
hlthe2b
Jun 2019
#3
wow if hes resorting to this, then his bag of distractions is pretty slim pickins....
samnsara
Jun 2019
#5
Another day, another dangling of a shiny object in the faces of deplorables.
KY_EnviroGuy
Jun 2019
#8
Yes, at BEST they are dicta. But they don't even apply to impeachment in the House
StarfishSaver
Jun 2019
#25
It would be up to the full court to decide whether to take the case and it's highly unlikely
StarfishSaver
Jun 2019
#33
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
I think this idiocy shows how frightened he is. No lawyer of any repute would file such an action.
Shrike47
Jun 2019
#30
Yeah just like he was going to appeal impeachment to the Supreme Court
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Jun 2019
#48