Trump's lawyers prepare to fight subpoena all the way to the Supreme Court

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By Robert Costa
August 15 at 8:19 PM

Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s lead lawyer for the ongoing Russia probe, said Wednesday that he is still awaiting a response from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to the Trump team’s latest terms for a presidential interview, which were made last week in a letter that argued against Trump’s having to answer questions about his possible obstruction of justice.

In the meantime, Trump’s lawyers are preparing to oppose a potential subpoena from Mueller for a Trump sit-down by drafting a rebuttal that could set off a dramatic fight in federal courts.

“We would move to quash the subpoena,” Giuliani said in an interview. “And we’re pretty much finished with our memorandum opposing a subpoena.”

Giuliani added that Trump’s attorneys are ready to “argue it before the Supreme Court, if it ever got there.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-lawyers-prepare-to-fight-subpoena-all-the-way-to-the-supreme-court/2018/08/15/c65b638c-a0cc-11e8-93e3-24d1703d2a7a_story.html

[C_U_L8R]

1. Go for it, Trumpsuckers

[Freethinker65]

2. Trump is so fucking guilty

[bearsfootball516]

3. There is absolutely no way this man is innocent.

They are willing to fight all the way to the SUPREME COURT, just to try to make sure he doesn't have to open his mouth, because they know that he'll perjury himself.

[yallerdawg]

4. When the Dotard's "lawyers" get into a real legal fight...

the first thing a judge will tell them is to STFU! Amen!

[sandensea]

5. Hence their hurry to get Kuntanaugh confirmed ASAP

Straight out of the third world, these people.

[Zoonart]

6. How on God's green earth ...

Does 2scoops get to nominate his own get out of jail free card to SCOTUS?
This nominee must publicly recuse...or no SCOTUS for him.

[sandensea]

11. This is how:

[2naSalit]

12. Those sorry old prunes!

[sandensea]

15. And those old prunes, besides being fascists, are just as guilty in Russiagate as Cheeto

IMHO, they should either testify fully to their roles (which they'll almost certainyl never do), or all share a cell in Ft. Leavenworth.

[2naSalit]

17. Oh, I've been saying that for almost two years now

And I am sure they were on the road to this place back when W was in office.

[sandensea]

20. Same here.

I'll never forget the day Gore was forced to concede by the Scaliar court.

"War and recession," I told my (unfotunately) Republican best friend at the time.

That wasn't the half of it!

[2naSalit]

23. It was all I predicted and them some...nt

[Grasswire2]

28. I will never forget that day either.

And remember how the Congressional Black Caucus begged for one member of the Senate to come forward and challenge the certification of the Florida vote.....and Gore asked them to stand down? Damn. Just damn. That was a sickening day. The Bush people had weaponized a plan that was so awful....including beating pots and pans outside Gore's VP residence to drive him out. Damn.

[sandensea]

31. Those pot bangers must have been Cuban/Latin American right-wingers, or led by them.

Pot-banging protests, you see, are a popular form of right-wing protest south of the border.

They were popularized during Chile in the early '70s by middle-class housewives protesting inflation and widespread shortages during Salvador Allende's well-meaning but chaotic administration.

Once Allende was overthrown in '73, pot-banging protests became a cherished symbol to right-wingers across Latin America - particularly in recent years, during many of the center-left (and in Venezuela's case, far-left) administrations that governed much of the region after a series of right-wing disasters.

In most of those more recent cases, the pot-banging was purely political, rather than out of any need (again, except in Venezuela, where the economic crisis is real).

The most shameful such example was probably in Argentina in 2012/13, where middle-class and wealthy right-wingers would gather in posh intersections, banging their pots for a few hours (with lots of racial epithets), and then driving off in European cars to upscale cafés and restaurants to celebrate their "show of force."

Some even brough their maids, to save themselves the trouble of banging the things themselves.

It worked. A media-savvy fascist was very narrowly elected in 2015 - but most are now regretting it, just as we came to regret Dubya (most of us, anyway).

Have you noticed? History tends not just to repeat itself; but to mirror itself elsewhere.

[Zoonart]

13. Correct.

The difference between this crisis is and Nixon...the party did not back Nixon.

[sandensea]

16. Thank you.

Today's GOP congresscritters are utterly radicalized, which wasn't the case in '74.

You'd never see this from Bitchy Mitchy, Eddie Munster or the rest of them:

Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, Senator Barry Goldwater, and House Minority Leader John Rhodes emerge from their famous August 7, 1974, White House meeting in which they informed Nixon he had lost the confidence of not only Congress - but of Congressional Republicans themselves.

These days Republicans only show up at the White House to pass along reserved information, or to kiss orange butt.

[2naSalit]

18. Radicalized AND weaponized ...nt

[sandensea]

19. Right. All that corporate/dark money.

And God only knows what kind of dark money.

Putin? Narcos? Bibi? Terrorists? You name it.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

7. Please do. That will put on display why kavanaugh is not going to be the next SCJ.

Garland or nothing before the election. Were too close. let the People decide.

[FBaggins]

30. So you're saying that two or more Republicans will vote against him

so that Trump DOES have to testify?

[FM123]

8. And that orange idiot will probably demand that Justice Ginsburg recuse herself

because she made a few unflattering comments about him during the election.

[janx]

9. So depending on the outcome of Mueller's investigation--

could Rudy be seen as some kind of accessory? How crazy is he?

[RKP5637]

10. Innocent people don't do this kind of sh**! tRump, is guilty as hell. n/t

[beachbum bob]

14. Trump be wasting the courts time, the precedent been set

The would most likely refuse to hear the argument

[sinkingfeeling]

21. Of course, that's why they had to replace Kennedy.

[CaptainTruth]

22. I guess Loony Rudy forgot about United States v Nixon

Unanimous Supreme Court ruling that the president must comply with a subpoena from a special prosecutor.

[link:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Nixon|

[Marie Marie]

24. And how will our current right wing SCOTUS rule on this?

Especially if Kavanaugh gets placed before this reaches the court.

[Jake Stern]

25. I look at it this way: either way the Republicans lose

If SCOTUS declines to take the case or rules against then President Cheeto has to testify.

If SCOTUS does quash the subpoena, it sets a precedent that declaws future special counsels effectively killing any chance of them being used against a future Dem president.

[Kablooie]

26. Sounds like this will take a looooong time.

There are so many legal complications that trumps lawyers can bring up it seems like they can keep him in power in definitely. It could be years before Mueller finishes.

[TomSlick]

27. I get it. Nothing Trump does will change his base - but

can you imagine the backlash if any other president refused to testify before a grand jury - about anything?

[spanone]

29. they want to declare trump king for life.