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We are not packing the Supreme Court, we are unpacking it.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I have long believed that the criminalization of marijuana has been a mistake, and the racially disparate enforcement of marijuana laws has only compounded this mistake, with serious consequences, particularly for communities of color.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
President Trump dangled this pardon to encourage Flynn to backtrack on his pledge to cooperate with federal investigatorscooperation that might have exposed the Presidents own wrongdoing. And it worked, flynn broke his deal, recanted his plea, received the backing of the Attorney General over the objections of career prosecutors, and now has secured a pardon from the President of the United States.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It is necessary... to simply pause the statute of limitations so that the President -- any president -- can be held to account for The President or her actions and to ensure that the presidency is not a get-out-of-jail free card.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
President Trump has been fixated on the pardon power as an instrument for President Trump own personal benefit since early in President Trump administration, and it is important to reaffirm certain basic principles.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I don't think calls for The New York Democrat impeachment are premature any more than calls for the President's impeachment were premature, but they are a waste of time at this point.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I don't think calls for his impeachment are premature any more than calls for the President's impeachment were premature, but they are a waste of time at this point, we've seen a pattern of... Barr corruptly impeding all these investigations, so this is just more of the same.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We're instead going to do what we have to do without that, and including barring $ 50 million from his own personal budget.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I don't think calls for House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler impeachment are premature any more than calls for the President's impeachment were premature, but they are a waste of time at this point.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We've seen a pattern of... Barr corruptly impeding all these investigations, so this is just more of the same.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
America is right to expect the worst of Bill Barr, who has repeatedly interfered in criminal investigations on Trump's behalf.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Today, we learned that Attorney General Barr has made a key finding related to the COVID-19 pandemic that triggers expanded authority under the CARES Act to transfer prisoners to home confinement. This is a positive development, and I urge appropriate and swift use of this power.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If he is permitted to defy the Congress, categorically, to say that subpoenas from Congress in an impeachment inquiry are nonsense, then we will have lost -- the House will have lost, the Senate certainly will have lost -- all power to hold any president accountable, this is a determination by President Trump that President Trump wants to be all powerful. President Trump does not have to respect the Congress. President Trump does not have to respect the representatives of the people. Only President Trump will goes. He is a dictator. This must not stand.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Constitution prescribes a special oath for the senators when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sit as a trial in impeachment. They have to pledge to do impartial justice, and here you have the majority leader of the Senate, in effect, the foreman of the jury, saying they're going to work hand and glove with the defense attorney, now, that's a violation of the oath they're about to take, and it's a complete subversion of the constitutional scheme.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The threat is urgent. If we do not act -- now — what happens next will be our responsibility as well as Jerry Nadler.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The highest of high crimes is abuse of power. It occurs when a President uses his official powers to serve his own personal, selfish interests at the expense of the public good.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
President Trump welcomed foreign interference in the 2016 election. President Trump demanded it for the 2020 election, in both cases, President Trump got caught. And in both cases, President Trump did everything in President Trump power to prevent the American people from learning the truth about President Trump conduct.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Never before, in the history of the republic, have we been forced to consider the conduct of a president who appears to have solicited personal, political favors from a foreign government, when we apply the Constitution to those facts, if it is true that President Donald Trump has committed an impeachable offense — or impeachable offenses — then we must move swiftly to do our duty and charge President Donald Trump accordingly.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If the President thinks the call was perfect and there is nothing to hide then he would turn over the thousands of pages of documents requested by Congress, allow witnesses to testify instead of blocking testimony with baseless privilege claims, and provide any exculpatory information that refutes the overwhelming evidence of his abuse of power.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I'm not going to speculate on a timeline, we want to finish the process as expeditiously as possible and thoroughly... that the American people see what the evidence is - what the contradictory evidence is if any - and if it's going to be done, it's got to be done right and whatever time required it takes.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We saw a witness instructed by the White House completely contemptuous of Congress who refused to answer relevant questions, just another instance of obstruction of Congress, and that's what article 3 of the Nixon impeachment was.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Mr. Lewandowski, your behavior in this hearing room has been completely unacceptable and it is part of a pattern by a White House desperate for the American people not to hear the truth.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Article 3 of Nixon's impeachment was obstruction of Congress, refusing to obey defined congressional subpoenas, pleading imaginary privilege, and obviously that's what The President has been doing. Richard Nixon wasn't foolish to say in advance that Richard Nixon's going to defy all congressional subpoenas... and today we saw a witness instructed by the White House completely contemptuous of Congress who refused to answer relevant questions. Just another instance of obstruction of Congress and that's what Article 3 of the Richard Nixon impeachment was.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have said that this is -- we've told the court, we've said it in the hearings -- that we are examining the various malfeasance of the President with the view of the possibility of recommending articles of impeachment to the White House.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Hosting the G7 Summit at Doral implicates both the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses, because it would entail United States to benefit the President, the latter potentially including both federal and state expenditures. More importantly, the Doral decision reflects perhaps the first publicly known instance in which foreign governments would be required to pay President Trump's private businesses in order to conduct business with the United States.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The growing anti-Semitism in our political dialogue is repugnant.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It is clear that any other American would have been prosecuted based on the evidence Robert Mueller uncovered in Robert Mueller report, corey Lewandowski and Rick Dearborn were prominently featured in the Special Counsel's description of President Trump's efforts to obstruct justice by directing then-White House Counsel Don McGahn to fire the Special Counsel, and then by ordering him to lie about it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There is one difference which you could draw, if you said that an impeachment inquiry is when you considering only impeachment, that's not what we're doing. We are investigating all of this and we are going to see what remedies we could recommend, including the possibility of articles of impeachment. We're not limited to that, but that's very much the possibility as a result of what we're doing.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Although department policy barred you from indicting the President for this conduct, you made clear that he is not exonerated. Any other person who acted this way would have been charged with a crime. And in this nation, not even the President is above the law, we will follow your example, Director Mueller. We will act with integrity. We will follow the facts where they lead. We will consider all appropriate remedies. We will make our recommendation to White House when our work concludes.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
My hope for tomorrow... is the Mueller investigation revealed a lot of conduct about the President, which the American people should be aware of, the President and the attorney general have systematically lied to the American people about what was in that report. ... They have said no obstruction, collision and The President was totally exonerated -- all three of those statements were not true.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Their vote, access to education, employment, and housing are all negatively impacted.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We will have to consider very carefully opening an investigation.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Given that Robert Mueller was unable to pursue criminal charges against the President, it falls to Congress to respond to the crimes, lies and other wrongdoing of President Donald Trump -- and we will do so, at this point all options are on the table, and nothing should be ruled out.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There's been a campaign of misrepresentation from Attorney General Attorney General William Barr, who misrepresented what was in the report ; by the President — the President saying they found no collusion, that's not true, so it's important that Attorney General William Barr answer a lot of specific questions.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is true that fact witnesses have been ordered by White House not to appear before Judiciary Committee, but we'll get them.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is important to hear from Ms. Hicks, who was a key witness for the Special Counsel, ms. Hicks understands that Judiciary Committee will be free to pose questions as Judiciary Committee sees fit, including about her time on the Trump Campaign and her time in White House. Should there be a privilege or other objection regarding any question, we will attempt to resolve any disagreement while reserving our right to take any and all measures in response to unfounded privilege assertions.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
House Democrats say we're in a constitutional crisis and they're right, but not because of Attorney General William Barr. The true constitutional crisis is this : If House Democrats can't win, they change the rules.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I am pleased that we have reached an agreement to review at least some of the evidence underlying the Mueller report -- including interview notes, first-hand accounts of misconduct, and other critical evidence -- and that this material will be made available without delay to members on both sides of the aisle, as a result, I see no need to resort to the criminal contempt statute to enforce our April 19 subpoena, at least for now, so long as Justice Department upholds Justice Department end of the bargain.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The lawyers tell us that in weighing the equities between the competing claims of the executive and the legislative branches, we have very substantial powers, the congressional power is at its zenith in an impeachment inquiry. How much of a difference — it is a different question.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
These documents will allow us to perform our constitutional duties and decide how to respond to the allegations laid out against the President by the Special Counsel.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I see no need to resort to the criminal contempt statute to enforce our April 19 subpoena, at least for now, so long as Justice Department upholds Justice Department end of the bargain, but our arrangement with Justice Department does not extend to the full scope of our request for the full Mueller report and its underlying materials, including grand jury information, nor does it extend to our demand that Don McGahn, Don McGahn, testify before Judiciary Committee.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The American people right now do not support it because The American people don't know the story.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Given the threat posed by the President's alleged misconduct, our first hearing will focus on President Trump's most overt acts of obstruction, in the coming weeks, other hearings will focus on other important aspects of the Mueller report.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Well, now that the President has said what he said, I'm less confident than I was.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is unprecedented. If allowed to go unchecked, this obstruction means the end of congressional oversight. As a co-equal branch of government, we should not and can not allow this to continue, democrats are angry. They are angry our nation's chief law enforcement officer and his deputy had the audacity to decide the evidence didn't support charges for obstructing an investigation into something The President didn't do.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The Department's decision reflects President Trump's blanket defiance of Congress's constitutionally mandated duties, in the coming days, I expect that Congress will have no choice but to confront the behavior of this lawless Administration. The Committee will also take a hard look at the officials who are enabling this cover up.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Given the attorney general's lack of candor before other congressional committees, I believe my colleagues and I were right to insist on the extended questioning.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Besides the fact that he clearly misled the American people, he seems to have testified non-truthfully to the Senate and the House, which raises major questions.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Bill Barr also should not have withheld this letter from Congress for as long as Bill Barr has, the Attorney General has expressed some reluctance to appear before the House Judiciary Committee this Thursday.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The President says The President doesn't want people talking about certain things, but they have already talked about those things to Mueller and to others. So that means if there was any executive privilege it's been waived, you can not waive the privilege and then reassert it, so there is no legal excuse whatsoever... The only question is how long they will draw it out in court before the subpoena is followed, and how contemptuous of Congress this administration will be.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There is no middle ground, it's none of the business of a witness to try to dictate try to a congressional committee what our procedures for questioning Jerry Nadler are.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I suspect that President Trump and his attorneys know this to be true as a matter of law -- and that this evening's reports, if accurate, represent one more act of obstruction by an administration desperate to prevent the public from talking about the President's behavior, the Committee's subpoena stands. I look forward to Mr. McGahn's testimony.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
DOJ is informing us we will not receive the report until around 11/12 tomorrow afternoon — AFTER Barr's press conference. This is wrong.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Rather than letting the facts of the report speak for themselves, The Attorney General has taken unprecedented steps to spin Mueller's nearly two year investigation, the central concern here is that Attorney General Barr is not allowing the facts of the Mueller report to speak for themselves but is trying to bake in the narrative about the report to the benefit of the White House.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This just illustrates part of the problem we are dealing with.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Nor is it right for The President to use immigrants or people who are claiming political asylum as pawns in a fight against political opponents, the President shouldn't use them as what The President imagines as retribution to political opponents in various areas.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
An impeachment inquiry is a judicial proceeding, or has been considered in the past, and certainly an inquiry which may help you determine whether or not to initiate an impeachment is preparatory to that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This just illustrates part of the problem were dealing with.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I asked whether he could commit that the full report, an unredacted full report with the underlying documents evidence would be provided to Congress and to the American people. And he wouldn't make a commitment to that. I am very concerned about that.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I am very concerned that it is apparent that the Department (of Justice) will not meet the April 2 deadline that we set. And I'm very disturbed by that, i asked whether he could commit that the full report, an unredacted full report with the underlying documents evidence would be provided to Congress and to the American people. And he wouldn't make a commitment to that. I am very concerned about that.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
In light of the very concerning discrepancies and final decision making at the Justice Department following the Special Counsel report, where Mueller did not exonerate the President, we will be calling Attorney General Barr in to testify before @HouseJudiciary in the near future.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
For the President to go around Congress and say 'you don't agree there's an emergency, I think there's an emergency, we're going to spend the money that you said no you won't spend' is upending democratic government, is making the President a dictator, and that's a far greater risk to our government and to our freedom than almost anything else that's going on.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
You've heard the President and the administration say that immigrants are thieves, that they bring in drugs, that they're responsible for lots of crime, that they're -- a crisis at our border, they're bringing in drugs and crime.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We've heard from a number of other people who have said they will comply if we give them a subpoena -- they want an excuse, they want a friendly subpoena, so-called, there are a couple of people who have been defiant and said they're not going to comply, but that's only a handful.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Unlike in the hearing room, Mr. Attorney General Matt Whitaker did not deny that the President called him to discuss the Michael Cohen case and personnel decisions of the Southern District.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Our goal is to hold the administration accountable for the obstruction of justice, the abuse of power and the corruption.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is not a pre-impeachment hearing, if we are going to do anything, we have to have proof.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We do not now have the evidence sorted out and everything to do an impeachment. Before you impeach somebody you have to persuade the American public that it ought to happen. You have to persuade enough of the opposition party voters, the President Donald Trump voters.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In my view, your conduct, Matt Whitaker -- including your decision to ignore important ethics advice when you became acting attorney general, no matter the consequences -- your conduct, sir, falls well short of the mark.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Matt Whitaker didn't reveal anything nefarious that Matt Whitaker's done but we still don't have answers as to whether Matt Whitaker interfered with the investigation, there will be accountability with this Congress.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Any attempt to get him to change his testimony or not to testify by dangling a pardon would be very, would be obstruction of justice.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Manafort is a demonstrated criminal, a convicted criminal, a convicted liar, and someone who is lying again now, according to the special counsel.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Months ago, Director Comey and Attorney General Lynch both indicated their willingness to answer the Chairman's questions voluntarily. My understanding is that the Republicans have had no contact with either the director or the attorney general since.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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