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Geoff Bennett ✔ @GeoffRBennett
Laura Coopers scheduled deposition has been upended by a group of House Republicans storming the hearing room, members say. Repubs took cellphones into the secure area, which is a huge violation. Were told the room will need a security sweep before the deposition can continue.
11:57 AM - Oct 23, 2019
WTF are we witnessing?
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)They are actively subverting the Constitution.
It can't be seen as anything less than that.
FirstLight
(13,362 posts)And I'm worried that it my break the country 😔
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)I think you're spot-on - slo-mo, but a coup against the Constitution, totally.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)for some time now, based on their behaviors and reactions and Trump's clear and intense disdain for our Constitution and democracy.
It is moving in slow motion and it is not the kind we might expect, but then, nobody says it happens in the same way as in other countries and times.
C_U_L8R
(45,018 posts)and scour their accounts for confidential materials. Isn't that the proper thing to do?
MagickMuffin
(15,950 posts)Subverting the Oath of Office by NOT defending the US Constitution.
These tactics are going to cost them.
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)Like it was planned and coordinated by the repubs to slow things down and cause a delay.
OnDoutside
(19,968 posts)pnwest
(3,266 posts)Up until now, worried and scared. But now, real fear at the possibility of them succeeding with this coup attempt. It appears that they truly will stop at nothing.
eShirl
(18,502 posts)shame on them
eleny
(46,166 posts)It may be a slap on the wrist but at least they have to receive the censure publicly.
"...a censure is "a form of public shaming in which the politician must stand before his peers to listen to the censure resolution"."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censure_in_the_United_States
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)do this. Televise it too - cameras everywhere - so the public knows exactly what is being done about their criminal behavior.
TeamPooka
(24,248 posts)Not the first time Republicans have used storm trooper tactics
That is what they did to disrupt the Florida recount in the year 2000, stormed in and disrupt everything to create chaos
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Brooks Brothers Riot - but even they managed to follow the law...
Bayard
(22,128 posts)And their cell phones!
tblue37
(65,483 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)@MalcolmNance
Wait!!? Republicans tried to storm a Secure Classified Information Facility (SCIF) where TOP SECRET +++ information is stored & shared? ITS A TOP SECRET FACILITY RUN BY THE CIA/DOD & GUARDED BY TS/SCI CLEARED ARMED POLICE. This isnt a joke anymore. Charge them with trespass.
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Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Breaching NatSec is a serious crime!!!
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This should not be tolerated! If they were Democrats, they would be in jail by now.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)How dare these fucks defy the Constitution!!!!!!
ENOUGH of their shit!!!!