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dixiegrrrrl

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9. doesn't matter the issue

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 11, 2019, 10:32 PM

Jun 2019

The message is....if the House votes for contempt of Barr, anything the House requests of the DOJ is gonna be denied, EVERYTHING will be a battle.

Procedural blackmail.
and a revelation that Trump and barr, no doubt egged on by all those Federalist society lawyers, will continue to flout the Constitution.

THEY are the Constitutional Crisis, and it sounds as if they think they have SCOTUS in their pocket.

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DOJ threatens executive privilege to block access to census docs [View all] DonViejo Jun 2019 OP

What kind of government do we have now, where secrecy and deceit are the rule? CurtEastPoint Jun 2019 #1

Exactly. iluvtennis Jun 2019 #5

How in bloody fucking hell can census discussions have executive privilege? TreasonousBastard Jun 2019 #2

EXACTLY! The LAST possible topic to hide. Military? Security? Okeydokey. Census? Fuck no. CurtEastPoint Jun 2019 #6

My question exactly. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2019 #7

doesn't matter the issue dixiegrrrrl Jun 2019 #9

It's a game Barr is playing dixiegrrrrl Jun 2019 #10

how in the hell can documents on asking a census question possibly qualify rurallib Jun 2019 #3

Transperancy still a thing? Brainfodder Jun 2019 #4

Role of Thomas Hofeller (gerrymander king) in adding that question revealed... pat_k Jun 2019 #8