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In reply to the discussion: Trump is telling aides he will 'sue' Democrats if they pursue impeachment: report [View all]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)25. Yes, at BEST they are dicta. But they don't even apply to impeachment in the House
They are about the possibility of the court intervening IF the Senate were to remove a president "in a manner seriously threatening the integrity of its results" such as, as Justice White says, using a coin toss or because they think the president is a "bad guy.""
Neither of these offhand comments has any connection whatsoever with or bearing on whether a president has standing to sue a House majority for pursuing impeachment against him.
Dershowitz knows this. He also knows that most people aren't lawyers and won't understand the difference and if he uses big enough words and throws around the names of a couple of Supreme Court justices, they'll think his argument makes sense.
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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