Shutting Out Americans from The Impeachment Trial
Republicans efforts to stymie the Senate impeachment trial continued this week with Senate rules committee Roy Blunt announcing that access by the press will be severely restricted during proceedings and even excluded completely at times. Blunt lied that these restrictions are the same as during the Clinton trial, but they’re not. This is simply a continuing effort by Trump enablers to make a mockery of these proceedings including even trying to dismiss the charges before a trial even happens, keeping witnesses and documents out of evidence, and coordinating directly with Trump’s goons in the WH. Cutting out the press?
It’s shameful, but not at all surprising.
Don’t you just love how Republicans slobber all over themselves saying how wonderful democracy is — right up till they do everything they can to dismantle it?
Yeah, me neither.
1You want to get people to watch then do everything you can to restrict them from watching. Any parent of a 5-year-old knows this.
2Pelosi just dropped a big one…They can’t keep THIS quiet.
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/01/lev-parnas-document-dump-insane
3Even if he’s convicted Lev’s Parnas bomb drop shows there’s plenty of pus under those scabs. And our fabulous press corps will continue to pick at it until the blood flows. And every new revelation of corruption will taint the GOP as badly as the pervertor himself.
Let it bleed.
4Headlines: Pelosi names team to prosecute president in the Senate
Edit: After a cloak-and-dagger selection process – during which members lobbied for a position on the team – the newly-selected managers appeared at a press conference ahead of a vote to formally approve their appointment.
The team includes: House Intelligence chair Adam Schiff; House Judiciary chair Jerry Nadler; Zoe Lofgren, who has participated in three impeachment proceedings; Democratic caucus chair, Hakeem Jeffries; Val Demmings, who was Orlando’s first female chief of police; Jason Crow, a veteran Army Ranger who served in Iraq and Afghanistan; and Sylvia Garcia, one of the first two Latinas elected from Texas in 2018.
The team includes woman, two African Americans and one Latina – a stark contrast from the teams appointed to make the case for removing Andrew Johnson from office in 1868 and Bill Clinton from office in 1999.
AND THIS:
Judge temporarily blocks Trump refugee policy
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s policy which would allow local governments to determine whether or not they would admit refugees. The policy was announced the same day in September that the president unveiled a record low cap on refugees of 18,000 people.
The local government policy had backfired on the president, with 42 out of 50 state governors, including conservative ones, saying they would continue to admit refugees. Seven state governors hadn’t announced their plans and the remaining governor, Greg Abbott of Texas, was the only one to say outright that the state would not accept refugees.
In response to a lawsuit filed against the policy change, judge Peter J Messitte of Maryland wrote in an order it was likely “unlawful.”
“Giving states and local governments the power to consent to the resettlement of refugees — which is to say veto power to determine whether refugees will be received in their midst — flies in the face of clear Congressional intent,” Messitte wrote.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/jan/15/trump-impeachment-articles-news-live-democrats-us-politics-latest-updates
5Before any big “buts” show up on this thread… this is simply House procedural duties being exercised as a safeguard to accusations by the GooPs.
6I am a big fan of the WaPo and its insistence the Democracy dies in darkness. Its too damn bad for the R’s that they can’t hold the whole thing in a cave somewhere. No matter how hard they try to restrict press access, there will be leaks – like Niagara. This kind of thing can’t be turned off like a faucet.
7Too bad. I was kinda hoping to watch the proceedings, wondering when Combover Crime Lord would start throwing poo, because you know he will. Maybe that’s the reason they want to restrict access by the press. Even the group that inexplicably calls itself the Grand Old Party has its standards…
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