GOP Sen. Cotton Says He Doesnt See Bills To Shield Mueller Going Very Far

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Source: Talking Points Memo

By ESME CRIBB Published AUGUST 6, 2017 11:37 AM

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Sunday said he does not expect legislation to shield special counsels from political influence to progress much.

“First there was the vote on sanctions, which the President did not like with respect to Russia. Also in the Senate you took measures to make sure there were no recess appointments. And finally there are a couple of bipartisan efforts to make sure that the President can’t fire the special counsel,” CBS News’ John Dickerson asked on “Face the Nation.” “Seems to be Congress is trying to constrain the President.”

“Well, those are all very different kinds of actions,” Cotton replied.

He said he supported the sanctions legislation and said Senate scheduling to prevent recess appointments “is something that goes back to the Obama administration.”

“That’s simply Congress taking its responsibility seriously to provide advice and consent to all nominations,” he said.

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And exactly what letter and 48 of your dickheads sign to Iran there zippy, when Obama was president

And by the way, where were you on the Merrick Garland item...................

[onecaliberal]

1. Thanks but I don't listen to traitorous pos assholes like cotton

[Sneederbunk]

2. Beware of Norman Bates.

[SHRED]

3. Tom who?

[lastlib]

8. Tehran Tom. The guy that writes treasonous letters to our foreign adversaries.

THAT pile of hippo-shit. Yeah.

[AgadorSparticus]

4. Hmmmm... wonder how much Russian money he took?

[Doug the Dem]

5. I don't cotton to Traitors

Maybe you should make like Major Tom and get off the planet.

[OnDoutside]

6. Isn't Tommy the new Senate Racist, since Sessions has moved on ?

[TomSlick]

7. Don't ignore Cotton.

I've watched him since he first ran for Senate here in Arkansas. He is the type of politician that will be very attractive to the Republican base - and he's spending the August recess fund raising in California and visiting Iowa.

The poorest in Arkansas vote for him because he makes a lot of noise about being a veteran and pay no attention to his being opposed to Medicare and Social Security upon which they rely.

He's dangerous and bears watching.

[DeltaLitProf]

9. I agree AND let's not let him define himself.

. . . he is like Paul Ryan. He and his followers make much of him allegedly being educated and intelligent. He has the degrees. Not the intelligence. His opponent needs to expose his vast ignorance about what he's voting on.

[TomSlick]

11. He's intelligent, that's what makes him so dangerous.

He is simply mean spirited and intelligent enough to not let poor folks in Arkansas know just how mean he really is.

Imagine Trump with brains.

[AZ8theist]

10. of course he doesn't....

FUCKING TRAITOR.

[Honeycombe8]

12. Yes, the Iranian letter. But...what does he mean doesn't expect them to progress much?

Those bills have already progressed to the end. They've been passed.

Congress locked these things down. A veto-proof Russia sanctions bill. The Senate has done what was necessary for the Senate's time off to still be considered "in session," so no recess appt is possible. Then the bill requiring any AG who terminates Mueller to be an AG that has been confirmed by the Senate, and Mueller can't be fired w/o Congressional review. Passed.

There's nowhere else for these things to progress. They reached the end successfully.

[wishstar]

13. Bills to prevent Mueller's firing have just been introduced last week but not passed

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/04/541523326/senators-introduce-2-bills-to-try-to-keep-trump-from-firing-mueller

"Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have warned Trump not to dismiss Mueller. The two Senate bills — one from Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and Christopher Coons, D-Del., and the other from Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., aim to make congressional opposition to such a move clear.

On the two proposals, The Washington Post reports:

"Each seek to check the executive branch's ability to fire a special counsel, by putting the question to a three-judge panel from the federal courts. They differ in when that panel gets to weigh in on the decision.
"Graham and Booker's proposal would require the judges panel to review any attorney general's decision to fire a special counsel before that firing could take effect.
"Tillis and Coons' proposal would let the firing proceed according to current regulations, which they codify in the bill — but the fired special counsel would have the right to contest the administration's decision in court. In that scenario, the judges panel would have two weeks from the day the special counsel's case is filed to complete their review and determine whether the termination was acceptable."

[Honeycombe8]

14. I thought they'd passed. Here's hoping our govt system works to protect itself. nt