From Barr's confirmation hearing: “Q: Do you believe a president could lawfully issue a pardon in exchange for the recipient’s promise to not incriminate him?” Barr: “No, that would be a crime.”
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Harry Litman
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Host & exec prod, @talkingfedspod. FCA Lawyer. Teach con law at UCSD& UCLA. Senior Fellow USC. Former US Atty, Dep Assis AG. Former LATimes Columnist.
- A federal magistrate judge has found probable cause to believe evidence of the crime of ESPIONAGE to be found at Mar-A-Lago. Repeat 5 times.
- Turns out Dr. Oz, Newly victorious Republican candidate for Senate from Pennsylvania,is registered to vote in New Jersey, not Pennsylvania, and has been registered there since the 1980s.
- Barely breaks eye contact with witnesses. Barely refers to notes. They will study this in law schools, history classes, and rhetoric seminars. Very very few US politicians could come close to this.We heard that Donald Trump only cares about the big stuff that helps him personally. The question now is — what do we care about? The Constitution? Our oath of office? Or merely our party. In the words of Elijah Cummings: We are better than that.
00:00 - Stephen Miller tests positive on his fifth day in isolation, after testing negative the previous 4. Consider how that works.
- The New York City Bar Association has written to Congressional leaders “in response to continuing actions by Attorney General William P. Barr that raise the most serious questions about Mr. Barr’s fitness for the high office that he holds.”
- Just to be clear, this is not a controversial statement: Judge Cannon has ruled that the attorney general of the United States may not look at lawfully seized fruits (nobody says otherwise) of a criminal investigation. That itself is a breathtaking overreach.
- $44 million punitive damages for Jones -- nearly the limit of what's permitted by Texas law. Basically the jury hated him and they clobbered him.
- Congress/Nadler has to subpoena Barr right away and move promptly for contempt when he doesn’t show
- PA Supreme Court rules against Trump.
- This is a bonafide scandal. On the legal level, it means the Court decided a case that wasn't a real case or controversy as Art III requires. On the political level, it Man cited in Supreme Court LGBTQ rights case says he was never involved
- Zelensky: “I do not really believe in the outcome of this meeting,” he said, “but let them try to make sure that no citizen of Ukraine has any doubt that I, as a president, have not tried to stop the war.” What an amazing story he is turning out to be. Some are born great...
- Thread: here's where I think we are. It's pretty exquisite. Berman is court appointed and under 28 USC §546 his appointment lasts until there is a presidentially appointed and confirmed US Attorney.
