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RBG Immediately Went There, Asked Trump Lawyer How Whitewater and Watergate Were Different from Tax Return Case
Colin Kalmbacher
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rbg-immediately-went-there-asked-trump-lawyer-how-whitewater-and-watergate-were-different-from-tax-return-case/ar-BB13YjQj
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Counsel, in so many of these prior cases, there was a cooperation, Ginsburg began. For example: tax returns. Every president voluntarily turned over his tax returns. So, it gets to be a pitched battle because President Trump is the first one to refuse to do that.
The famed liberal justice continued:
Initially, [Trump] said because of an audit was ongoing. Now it seems to be broader than that. But the aura of this case is really: Sauce for the goose that serves the gander as well. So, how do you distinguish, say, Whitewater when President Clintons personal records were subpoenaed from his accountant or even Hillary Clintons law firm billing records were subpoenaed. It seems that in prior casesyou say this one is one-of-a-kindbut it seems that in prior cases there was a much greater collision of interests. [Indistinguishable] the Nixon tapes. How do you distinguish all of those cases, Watergate, Whitewater, the Nixon tapes case, the Paula Jones case?
Well, your honor, we distinct them in a number of ways, Trumps attorney Patrick Strawbridge responded. With respect to Watergate and Whitewater, obviously, those are cases of relatively recent vintage. And in separation of powers disputes, this court has generallysuch as in Noel Canninglooked back for a much longer precedent for the type of issue that needs to be decided with examples of the encroachment on the separation of powers. And the recent examplesthere are just a handful of them that the House identifiesare too recent under that stricture, as the court recognized in Southwest General.
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Principal Deputy Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall, representing Trump as a government official, made a separate attempt to protect Trumps tax returns by asserting that sitting presidents are held to a different legal standard.
Howd that work out in the Paula Jones case? Ginsburg quipped.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Women and doctors.
We are at war, we still havent figured it out yet.
CurtEastPoint
(18,647 posts)adjective. He really said that?
WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)to use English as we know it.
NBachers
(17,117 posts)CrispyQ
(36,470 posts)You just know this is the same quality of justices being confirmed for lifetime positions in our courts.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)The best translation I can come up with is "Yargle bargle"."
marble falls
(57,097 posts)and bonged a Spudweizer. He burped and Strawbridge beamed.
DENVERPOPS
(8,835 posts)at the Tea Pot Dome Scandal........and other corrupt politicians.......
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alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)RBG kicks ASS!
Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)Why? He answered in gibberish, your honor, we distinct them...
Calm response would be, Your Honor, we distinguish them...
Hes rattled and has fear in his mind.