Judge stunned after Trump’s DOJ argues it’s ‘impossible to say’ if courts were right to give Congress Watergate docs
An attorney representing the Department of Justice on Tuesday left a federal judge stunned after they argued courts may have been wrong to hand over Watergate documents to Congress in 1974.
As reported by Politico’s Darren Samuelsohn, DOJ attorney Elizabeth Shapiro argued that Congress is not within its rights to demand grand jury information from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
Chief United States District Judge Beryl Howell pressed Shapiro over whether she also believed it was wrong for courts to force the release of Watergate grand jury materials to Congress during the impeachment inquiry for former President Richard Nixon.
“Shapiro at first said it was ‘impossible to say’ what happened in 1974 was wrong,” Samuelsohn reports. “Shapiro then said if the same Watergate road map case came today there’d be a ‘different result’ because the law has changed since 1974. She said the judge wouldn’t be able to do the same thing absent changes to the grand jury rules and statutes.”
“Wow, okay,” Howell replied, according to Samuelsohn. “As I said, the Department is taking an extraordinary position.”
Howell, "As I said the department is taking an extraordinary position." Shapiro replies, "I don't think it's that extraordinary, your honor."
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) October 8, 2019
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Kellyanne Conway accused of violating Hatch Act at least 50 times this year — on Twitter alone
According to a report from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway has "surpassed 50 violations of the Hatch Act on Twitter alone this past year."
Explaining the numbers, the report states, "CREW’s report on Conway’s continued violations outlines five categories of tweets that violate the Hatch Act: attacking or mocking Democratic presidential candidates, attacking the Democratic Party, promoting President Trump's re-election, promoting the Republican Party, and attacking President Trump's political adversaries. Conway has multiple violations in each category," before noting that Twitter's Terms of Service indicates one of Trump's closest aides is in violation and should have her account suspended.
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GOP giving up trying to reclaim House seats as 2020 wipeout looms: report
Faced with a ticket likely headed by an unpopular president and watching the Democrats rake in campaign cash ahead of the 2020 election, the Republican Party is conceding they will not win back the House by reclaiming seats they lost in the so-called 2018 "blue wave" election.
According to a report from Politico, Democratic candidates have been stockpiling massive amounts of cash to wage war in what is expected to be a high turnout election with Donald Trump as the face of the Republican Party and seats that the GOP thought they might have a shot at now appearing unattainable.
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Trump supporters cry bitter tears after bus company they never bothered paying leaves them stranded
Hundreds of Trump supporters this week were left stranded by bus company U.S. Coachways after the organizers for a "March for Trump" rally in Washington D.C. failed to pay them.
The Daily Beast's Will Sommer reports that the Trump supporters had expected U.S. Coachways to pick them up and bring them to D.C. where they were set to rally against House Democrats' impeachment inquiry. After the buses never showed up, however, Trump supporters claimed that the bus company was part of a "deep state" conspiracy aimed at silencing their voices.
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Rudy Giuliani under potential investigation for work he did for Iranian terrorist group
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Trump EU ambassador’s testimony was loaded with ‘extra-damning’ omissions: NYU Law professor
‘Absolute contempt for the American people’: Trump destroyed for shameless G7 golf club announcement
Chris Wallace goes off on Trump’s Turkey debacle: ‘Is this a ceasefire or a surrender?’
The View hosts shudder at creepy-crawly accounts of bedbugs at Trump’s club hosting G7
Clinton drops a stunning claim: Russia is grooming a 2020 Democrat to launch third-party presidential run
Kellyanne Conway accused of violating Hatch Act at least 50 times this year — on Twitter alone
Turkey’s foreign minister bursts out laughing as he mocks Trump’s erratic tweets
The View hosts shudder at creepy-crawly accounts of bedbugs at Trump’s club hosting G7
GOP lawmaker hammers Trump for Ukraine server conspiracy theory: ‘Are we trying to exculpate Russia?’
Fox News host shreds Mulvaney’s attempt to clean up his damning Ukraine confession
Fox News graphic busts White House press secretary for lying about Syria cease-fire
