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Supreme Court rejected Graham’s request, so he gets to testify in GA.

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I read them as saying he doesn’t have to answer any of the meaningful questions; and that he can refuse to answer any others and go back to the district court about them, too.

His convos with Georgia officials and, probably, Trump, about the election results (the informal investigation) are covered by the speech and debate clause as legislative activity, and he is free to litigate any other questions with the lower courts once he has been asked them.

They’re just saying that he doesn’t need a stay or injunction, because he doesn’t have to answer the relevant questions, he just has to show up for the interview.

Edit: I’m actually quite stunned by that order, and I confess I must somehow have missed that the lower courts assumed that his conversations with Georgia officials about the election were out of bounds because of the speech or debate clause. What are they even going to ask him about, if not that? Why is this being reported as him losing? It seems like he’s won the main point.

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A lot of room for fuckery but “did you or anyone you are aware of, try to muscle Georgia officials to change the vote tallies” i.e., the famous phone calls, seem squarely within bounds.

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And then he’ll just pull out the hoary old favorite of all scoundrels: “I don’t recall.”

BTW, has there been a similar SCOTUS stay for Mark Meadows’ subpoena yet?

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I don’t know why he can’t just refuse to answer every question on the grounds that it violates the speech and debate clause, and then restart the whole litigation at the district court level all over again. It’s what he has been invited to do.

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I am no lawyer but that’s how I would treat it.

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With this court it won’t matter, but someone should really hammer on the part about speech and debate.

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Republicans in Congress touting their 1050-page report on the politicization of the DOJ.

The report is nearly all (~1000 pages) copies of letters Republican members have sent to the administration.

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I wonder if any of it covers the period of 2016-2020.

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Including, iirc, 94 copies of the same 5 page letter. One copy for each AUSA sent it.

15091

There is no satire, only proof of ANTIFA!

15092

The right has no problem describing the criming they’ve done, criming they’re in the process of doing, and criming they’d like to do Saturday night, right out in the open, so I imagine they think everyone else does the same.

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Oh for fuck’s sake. The sheer performative idiocy is mind-boggling.

The GOP has been the party of big business for generations now. The fact that big business is maybe beginning to flee their right-aligned relationships with Twitter (and the GOP), doesn’t tell you anything about big business or the left. It tells you that the GOP has moved radically rightward over time. Duh.

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This has kind of been the norm for Trumpism though, so I’m not so boggled. He changed the game a bit in my opinion. Trump was loudly for the common man (in speech only, not action) while being more aggressive with big business. Not that he was anti business, but traditionally republicans had treated them as good friends. It was all carrot no stick. Trump on the hand treated them as underlings that needed to be bullied into line sometime. Some carrot and plenty of stick. The stick stuff played into his strongman image and burnished his “for the common man” image. I see this as an extension of that approach.

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Not to mention, if Musk is going to hemorrhage cash, Cruz will have a bowl ready. Just in case.

15098

Maybe don’t immediately fire everyone at the top and announce mass layoffs?

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Thanks, Antifa.

15100

Fittingly, it was actually a can of White Claw which is favored by cucks and Marxist Communist Democrats everywhere.