***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[gry60]

Based on Mike Pence's erectometer, how close are we to impeachment?

Only Mother knows the answer...

 

[elpablo21]

Kanye doubled it, it was just Mayweather before

And Jim Brown

 

[IATT]

 

[aepps20]

And Jim Brown

We rolling DEEP. Sheriff Clarke, Barson, Silk, Diamond, Paris, Ray Lewis, Dakota Prescott, Steven Harvey, Stephen Anthony Smith, Jason Whitlock, Kanye Kardashian, and MANY pthers.

 

[nomnom]

Cringe

 

[IATT]

 

[blastercombo]

Lol whata gal

 

[chao7]

 

[nomnom]

Snowflake alert



Cool, and former Nazis were hired under Operation Paperclip. But this is what they get mad over lol.

 

[elpablo21]

Snowflake alert



Cool, and former Nazis were hired under Operation Paperclip. But this is what they get mad over lol.

The clap back replies

 

[RustyShackleford]

Good grief they are cooking ole boy in the replies

 

[AEA18]

More concerned with protecting the assualter from getting in trouble (what's supposed to happen in this situation) than with protecting other women like herself.

NBC should have never hired her but I guess they thought it would make them seem fair and balanced to the faux news crowd.

I'm sure she would be happy working with Matt Lauer since NBC "swung the pendulum too far".

 

[Nike Jordan]

 

[DADDYFATSACKS]

Yikes she doesn’t have lips.

 

[Belgium]

Papadopoulos sentencing document link here:
It says Sessions and Trump approved at the time of Papadopoulos bringing up a potential meeting between Trump and Putin. Both Sessions and Trump have denied that kind of response. Others in the meeting issued strong denials as well. In Sessions’ case it would mean he lied to Congress about his response to Papadopoulos’ suggestion.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4807546-Papadopoulos-defense-sentencing-memo.html

 

[IATT]

 

[AEA18]

Biggest hypocrites

 

[rolaholic]

 

[IATT]

A little surprised

 

[americangenius]

A little surprised

I don't understand why they never stick with their statements and claim "I'm better than this, this isn't me".

 

[Rootin4EverybodyBlack]

I mean clearly Desantis didn't apologize, so not all of em do.

Wouldn't be surprised if he lost the election though.

 

[Belgium]

http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...-withholds-100000-pages-on-kavanaughs-records
Trump officials withhold 100K pages of Kavanaugh's records
The White House has pushed to withhold more than 100,000 pages of records related to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's time as White House lawyer during the George W. Bush administration.
Bush's attorney Bill Burck informed the Senate Judiciary Committee of the Trump administration's decision to withhold the documents in a letter to the panel on Friday.

The Trump administration is withholding the documents on the basis of presidential privilege, according to the letter provided by the White House to The Hill.

Bush had directed those reviewing what documents to release to err “on the side of transparency and disclosure, and we believe we have done so," the attorney wrote.

The Trump administration, which was also able to review the records being released, "has directed that we not provide these documents,” Burck told the panel, referring to the more than 100,00 documents.

In total, 267,000 pages of documents from Kavanaugh's years in the Bush administration are being turned over for release to the public.

President Trump nominated Kavanaugh in June to succeed retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. He was Trump's second Supreme Court pick, following his nomination of Justice Neil Gorsuch last year.

Kavanaugh faces a wave of Democratic resistance over concerns over his views on issues such as Roe V. Wade and the legality of a special counsel to investigate the president for criminal liability.

His confirmation hearings are set to kick off on Tuesday, with witnesses such as former Nixon White House counsel John Dean, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) set to testify.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...constitutional-problems-with-campaign-finance
New documents: Kavanaugh has ‘constitutional problems’ with campaign finance regulation
President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh believes there are "constitutional problems" with limits on campaign contributions to political candidates, according to documents released as part of his Supreme Court nomination process.

The documents, which come from Kavanaugh's time as a lawyer for the Bush administration, detail Kavanaugh's belief that there are constitutional issues with the cap on individual donations to candidates, currently set at $2,700.

"I have heard very few people say that the limits on contributions to candidates are unconstitutional, although I for one tend to think those limits have some constitutional problems," the nominee wrote in a March 2002 email, CNN reported Saturday.

No other information on Kavanaugh's views on campaign contributions was immediately mentioned in the emails, though experts expect questions on the topic to be raised during Kavanaugh's upcoming Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, set to begin Tuesday.

"If he were to take that position as a Supreme Court justice he would be voting to overturn long-established precedent," Fred Wertheimer, director of the campaign finance watchdog group Democracy 21, told CNN.

"The rationale for candidate contribution limits is that they prevent corruption -- if Kavanaugh were to oppose contribution limits, he would be willing to open the door to massive corruption of our elected officials," he added.

Steve Vladeck, a legal analyst for the network and University of Texas professor, told CNN that Kavanaugh's views suggest he would go "farther" than previous courts to strike down limits on campaign donations. Kavanaugh has not commented.

"[T]hese emails suggest that he'd go farther in striking down these regulations than the court has to date. It's hard to imagine this not becoming a point of some contention at next week's confirmation hearing," Vladeck said.

Kavanaugh is set to be introduced by several high-profile Republicans at his hearing Tuesday, including former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Ohio Sen. Rob Portman (R).

He was nominated by Trump to the court in July to succeed Justice Anthony Kennedy, who announced his retirement.

 

[elpablo21]

http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...-withholds-100000-pages-on-kavanaughs-records
Trump officials withhold 100K pages of Kavanaugh's records
The White House has pushed to withhold more than 100,000 pages of records related to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's time as White House lawyer during the George W. Bush administration.
Bush's attorney Bill Burck informed the Senate Judiciary Committee of the Trump administration's decision to withhold the documents in a letter to the panel on Friday.

The Trump administration is withholding the documents on the basis of presidential privilege, according to the letter provided by the White House to The Hill.

Bush had directed those reviewing what documents to release to err “on the side of transparency and disclosure, and we believe we have done so," the attorney wrote.

The Trump administration, which was also able to review the records being released, "has directed that we not provide these documents,” Burck told the panel, referring to the more than 100,00 documents.



http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...constitutional-problems-with-campaign-finance
New documents: Kavanaugh has ‘constitutional problems’ with campaign finance regulation
President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh believes there are "constitutional problems" with limits on campaign contributions to political candidates, according to documents released as part of his Supreme Court nomination process.

The documents, which come from Kavanaugh's time as a lawyer for the Bush administration, detail Kavanaugh's belief that there are constitutional issues with the cap on individual donations to candidates, currently set at $2,700.

 

[biggie62]

The one thing that is hard for me to understand that each catholic on the court the last few decades besides Sotomeyer is a deep conservative who was educated in a Jesuit high school. Which from my experience is a liberal leaning education of inclusion, helping others, and being giving to those who are less fortunate. How yet are some many prominent judges cut from a different cloth just baffles me. Scalia was a graduate of my HS and I just don’t understand it. 2 others on the court and now this guy are from Georgetown prep in DC.

Now i have some classmates that fell through the same way. But the majority readonate with the message of the education. Can’t reach everyone it seems.

 

[IATT]