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Grasswire2

(13,571 posts)
Sat Dec 14, 2019, 01:48 PM Dec 2019

well looky: DoJ Thursday quietly published opinions that will help Trump escape justice

We are encouraged to reject these OPINIONS as laws. Please encourage the press and Dems to reject this tyranny.


[link:https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/12/politics/doj-legal-opinions-immunity-congressional-testimony/index.html|



More at link.

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Eight of the opinions appear to bolster the White House's stonewalling of Congress on witness testimony and document subpoenas. The opinions date back to the 1970s, when President Richard Nixon faced impeachment, and the early 1980s. One from 1982 was written by the former head of the Office of Legal Counsel at the request of Rudy Giuliani, who at the time worked within the Justice Department.

Some of the opinions appear to have been made public before, and some have only been cited by the Justice Department in other legal arguments. Those released Thursday hadn't all been collected before on the Justice Department's central website regarding its internal legal opinions.


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well looky: DoJ Thursday quietly published opinions that will help Trump escape justice (Original Post) Grasswire2 Dec 2019 OP
You know what they say about opinions. C_U_L8R Dec 2019 #1
Even assholes have them? marble falls Dec 2019 #3
Those are opinions. Most of their opinions evaporate in a hearing. marble falls Dec 2019 #2
one of their opinions has protected Trump throughout this presidency. Grasswire2 Dec 2019 #4
Its not over. He'll be long gone soon enough. marble falls Dec 2019 #5

Grasswire2

(13,571 posts)
4. one of their opinions has protected Trump throughout this presidency.
Sat Dec 14, 2019, 02:01 PM
Dec 2019

He would be long gone if it weren't considered binding by powers that would have indicted anyone else.

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