Here we go. Jeff Sessions resigns as AG

[Strychnine]

Just another crazy.

You can't bar anyone from the bench based on their religious beliefs. He's a nutter!

 

[Streeter]

The entire basis of the investigation was corrupt and BS n everyone knew it ....... entire reason behind the Russian investigation " was to get Trump to make a mistake an obstruct or get him in an interview to get him to perjure himself. As a side benefit leave it open as long as they can to investigate any possible shady things Trump.

 

[hillelslovak87]

The entire basis of the investigation was corrupt and BS n everyone knew it ....... entire reason behind the Russian investigation " was to get Trump to make a mistake an obstruct or get him in an interview to get him to perjure himself. As a side benefit leave it open as long as they can to investigate any possible shady things Trump.

Awww, poor baby

 

[Joe]

The entire basis of the investigation was corrupt and BS n everyone knew it ....... entire reason behind the Russian investigation " was to get Trump to make a mistake an obstruct or get him in an interview to get him to perjure himself. As a side benefit leave it open as long as they can to investigate any possible shady things Trump.

We wouldn't be here if trump could get his stories on Flynn and firing comey straight. You guys don't believe trump is ever responsible for his lies.

 

[Streeter]

We wouldn't be here if trump could get his stories on Flynn and firing comey straight. You guys don't believe trump is ever responsible for his lies.

Noone is arguing Trump is scum at least I'm not. I am saying the reason for the investigation was bullshit and everyone knew it.

 

[GSP_37]

Look, I'm not a fan of any attempts to undermine Mueller's investigation, but WTF is a "White House spy"?

The Justice Department isn't the Supreme Court. It's part of the executive branch. It answers to the White House. It's subordinate to it.

I think in ordinary situations, criminals don't get to know what the cops are investigating about them until charges are filed and the details are laid out in the filing docs. Whitaker is likely going to be another cocksucker Devin Nunes. I think it would be absolutely retarded if the Pres could have any say over the Justice Dept's investigation of him. There's no way the founders intended the Pres be above the law. If that was the case, any criminal crime lord could lie, cheat, steal, threaten his way to winning the presidency, then escape any accountability if he won. The situation exists now because the Republicans are corrupt and are allowing bad shit to happen unchecked.

 

[GSP_37]

I dont care that Jeff Sessions is no longer AG, he is a shit bag. I hope the new AG doesnt step in and shut down the investigation just to save Trump or on Trump's orders. If there is something to the investigation it should proceed regardless of who is involved. If they shut it down they should release all of the information they have to the public.

Firing Mueller or cutting his budget to hinder his work are both obstruction of justice. The news is reporting Whitaker was a key member in some fraudulent inventors help scheme and he used his status as former state attorney to threaten people who complained they lost money and some lost their life savings. The news suggested he might just keep Mueller's end product report away from the public's view.

 

[GSP_37]

Looks like Trump is one step closer to being a dictator. He admires Putin, Kim, King Abdullah from the House of Saud. He tries to silence the press. Want to get rid of amendments to the Constitution with an EO. Our once great democracy is slowly being destroyed by a man that fantasizes about being a dictator.

At this point, I think we need a costumed superhero to save us.

 

[KaNesDeath]

Been sidelined from work the past three days. When i first heard about this and his temporary replacement it raised red flags. Never recall a chief of staff from the fired/resigned person assuming the role.

An when you look at Whitakers recent past its littered with political landmines. Would be political suicide for the White House to nominate him. So then begs the question of why was he named even in a temporary role?

 

[7437]

Been sidelined from work the past three days. When i first heard about this and his temporary replacement it raised red flags. Never recall a chief of staff from the fired/resigned person assuming the role.

An when you look at Whitakers recent past its littered with political landmines. Would be political suicide for the White House to nominate him. So then begs the question of why was he named even in a temporary role?

It's not political suicide anymore. A huge portion of the country is too far gone.

 

[Joe]

This is so bizarre

 

[Lord Coke]

Hey guys @Zankou @panamaican @Lord Coke , so appointment of Whitaker is illegal?

“President Trump’s installation of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general of the United States after forcing the resignation of Jeff Sessions is unconstitutional. It’s illegal. And it means that anything Mr. Whitaker does, or tries to do, in that position is invalid,” said Conway in a piece co-written by former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal K. Katyal.

Conway and Katyal’s central argument is that a principal officer, such as acting attorney general of the United States, must be confirmed by the Senate. By evading such a procedure, Conway argues, it “defies one of the one of the explicit checks and balances set out in the Constitution, a provision designed to protect us all against the centralization of government power.”

The op-ed says the American people “cannot tolerate such an evasion of the Constitution’s very explicit, textually precise design. Senate confirmation exists for a simple, and good, reason.”

“Constitutionally, Matthew Whitaker is a nobody. His job as Mr. Sessions’s chief of staff did not require Senate confirmation,” reads the piece.

Conway goes on to say that for Trump to allow Whitaker to take this position is to “betray the entire structure of our charter document.”

These sentiments were also recently shared by Andrew Napolitano, senior judicial analyst for Fox News, who said on Wednesday that he believed Trump’s appointment of Whitaker was illegal.

“Under the law, the person running the Department of Justice must have been approved by the United States Senate for some previous position. Even on an interim post,” Napolitano told Fox News’ Dana Perino.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/george-conway-slams-trump-op-183931751.html

This is Clarence Thomas's concurrence in NLRB v. SW GENERAL, INC. @Trotsky See Trotsky Justice Thomas isn't all bad
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-1251_ed9g.pdf
I recognize that the “burdens on governmental processes” that the Appointments Clause imposes may “often seem clumsy, inefficient, even unworkable.” INS v. Chadha, 462 U. S. 919, 959 (1983). Granting the President unilateral power to fill vacancies in high offices might contribute to more efficient Government. But the Appointments Clause is not an empty formality. Although the Framers recognized the potential value of leaving the selection of officers to “one man of discernment” rather than to a fractious, multimember body, see The Federalist No. 76, p. 510 (J. Cooke ed., 1961), they also recognized the serious risk for abuse and corruption posed by permitting one person to fill every office in the Government, see id., at 513; 3 J. Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States §1524, p. 376 (1833). The Framers “had lived under a form of government that permitted arbitrary governmental acts to go unchecked,” Chadha, supra, at 959, and they knew that liberty could be preserved only by ensuring that the powers of Government would never be consolidated in one body, see The Federalist No. 51, p. 348. They thus empowered the Senate to confirm principal officers on the view that “the necessity of its co-operation in the business of appointments will be a considerable and salutary restraint upon the conduct of ” the President. The Federalist No. 76, at 514; 3 Story, supra, §1525, at 376–377. We cannot cast aside the separation of powers and the Appointments Clause’s important check on executive power for the sake of administrative convenience or efficiency. See Bowsher v. Synar, 478 U. S. 714, 736 (1986).

 

[MMAViewer]

The entire basis of the investigation was corrupt and BS n everyone knew it ....... entire reason behind the Russian investigation " was to get Trump to make a mistake an obstruct or get him in an interview to get him to perjure himself. As a side benefit leave it open as long as they can to investigate any possible shady things Trump.

Dude I am not a Republican and I hate trump. But c'mon man, you acting like the left is playing 3d chess here is giving them a bit too much credit.
Truth is ethics violations can easily get you barred. Whitaker is (arguably) at least optically not very ethical

 

[MusterX]

Looks like Trump is one step closer to being a dictator. He admires Putin, Kim, King Abdullah from the House of Saud. He tries to silence the press. Want to get rid of amendments to the Constitution with an EO. Our once great democracy is slowly being destroyed by a man that fantasizes about being a dictator.

Don't be hysterical.

 

[MeatheadMike]

3D chess.

 

[Andy Capp]

He was originally a darling of the alternative right (the original alternative right before it was hi-jacked by racists), and considered to be a legitimate anti-establishment, anti swamp politician. However, he proved to really push back against Trump and seemed to be a member of the swamp instead. It will be interesting to see what he does and who Trump replaces him with. It seems very person in his administration back stabs him, leaks and tries to get him impeached.

And why do you suppose anyone who ends up working closely with Trump comes away thinking he should not be president?

 

[Strychnine]

This is Clarence Thomas's concurrence in NLRB v. SW GENERAL, INC. @Trotsky See Trotsky Justice Thomas isn't all bad
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-1251_ed9g.pdf
I recognize that the “burdens on governmental processes” that the Appointments Clause imposes may “often seem clumsy, inefficient, even unworkable.” INS v. Chadha, 462 U. S. 919, 959 (1983). Granting the President unilateral power to fill vacancies in high offices might contribute to more efficient Government. But the Appointments Clause is not an empty formality. Although the Framers recognized the potential value of leaving the selection of officers to “one man of discernment” rather than to a fractious, multimember body, see The Federalist No. 76, p. 510 (J. Cooke ed., 1961), they also recognized the serious risk for abuse and corruption posed by permitting one person to fill every office in the Government, see id., at 513; 3 J. Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States §1524, p. 376 (1833). The Framers “had lived under a form of government that permitted arbitrary governmental acts to go unchecked,” Chadha, supra, at 959, and they knew that liberty could be preserved only by ensuring that the powers of Government would never be consolidated in one body, see The Federalist No. 51, p. 348. They thus empowered the Senate to confirm principal officers on the view that “the necessity of its co-operation in the business of appointments will be a considerable and salutary restraint upon the conduct of ” the President. The Federalist No. 76, at 514; 3 Story, supra, §1525, at 376–377. We cannot cast aside the separation of powers and the Appointments Clause’s important check on executive power for the sake of administrative convenience or efficiency. See Bowsher v. Synar, 478 U. S. 714, 736 (1986).

Excellent post!

 

[Joe]

Its crazy how trump manages to like crooks and conmen. Just a coincidence. Only the best.

 

[japman40]

Trump isn't scared about Russia meddling, he's scared about the money laundering, taking money from foreign governments aka the emoluments clause, and the other shady crap his done. This firing was about getting someone in who would fight for trump to limit the scope of the investigation.

The noose is tightening

 

[HunterSdVa29]

it's not obstructing justice when no justice is being done

this is the longest, and least fruitful 'investigation' in world history