Jump to content

TwiceHorn

Full Members
  • Posts

    41436
  • Joined

  • Days Won

    3

Everything posted by TwiceHorn

  1. That's just not true until relatively recently in these days of hyperpartisanship. And certainly not in terms of criminal prosecution. Trump richly deserved his and would have been convicted but for his election. Watergate was a very bipartisan deal. Clinton was a fishing expedition by Republicans that finally landed on something that stuck. Trump's impeachments were pretty well-deserved, if somewhat performative given R majorities.
  2. Well until they assert qualified immunity and the Supreme Court rules that there was not a SCOTUS case making it explicitly unconstitutional to prosecute without probable cause, so it's all OK.
  3. The fuck is that and what is it supposed to mean? The other thing that is bizarre here is MAGA shouldn't have anything against Comey, really. This is pure narcissist grudge, as was the shitcanning of his daughter.
  4. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--brief-thoughts-on-the-indictment-of-james-comey
  5. I was actually 7-8, but my mom watched it obsessively. We were nominally an R family, but both sets of grandparents were FDR diehards. No one defended Nixon. Shit, I don't think even Ford's pardon was much of a partisan issue, it was mostly debated on the merits with a cynical nod to the fact that a D probably wouldn't have done it. For those who didn't or don't know, Watergate was pretty much non-stop covered daily by all three networks, from 9-5, at least, every weekday. And I think my Mom watched every single minute of it.
  6. It does, however, appear that stories like these are having an effect on those who bought the crimmigrant narrative.
  7. And, before the obstruction of justice part, Nixon's basic crime was knowledge of a relatively petty burglary. Something Trumpists would proclaim as trumped up charges. But it was the tawdriness of the basic crime that made it so disgusting. And then the cover-up, that displayed Nixon's basic corruption.
  8. He was here briefly. From his post history, southern Kansas, so right about that. But he was a USCe fan, which is what I remembered. https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/profile/1034-rumblefishstix/ And he acted like a southern redneck, but that's not exclusive to the south.
  9. Just like you won't find hardly any Nixon defenders today, there weren't many in 1973. There sure as fuck weren't a bunch of Republicans screaming wEaPoNizAtion while drumming up charges against Jimmy Carter.
  10. I suspect the library has access to scanners and OCR software for archival purposes and that this tome is in need of archiving. Your getting your own copy might be an issue though.
  11. The Senate voted 77-0 to convene the investigation. I wasn't the most seasoned observer at the time, but I recall about zero partisan political rancor over that. Two Republican Attorneys General resigned rather than do Nixon's bidding.
  12. Nah, there was a jayhawk dude that seemed to suffer priapism. RFS was an Alabama or Georgia dude, blue collar guy kinda like Lawrence from Office Space. IIRC, "Rude Ass Titties" guy was someone else entirely.
  13. Wait, you think Watergate was a product of vindictive political opposition? I'd say this nation has been relatively free of criminal vindictiveness upon the transfer of power. To the point that criminal consequences were avoided when they should not have been. Until very, very recently.
  14. Oliver Kornetzke is from Wisconsin. Trenchant observations, though. https://oliverkornetzke.substack.com/ https://thehobbledehoy.com/tag/oliver-kornetzke/
  15. As a general proposition, Mystic women do not name their kids like this. That's another demographic entirely.
  16. Who is acting like a vindictive child, now?
  17. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he was a radio commentator in LA for many years and was #1 rated for a lot of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Minyard
  18. All of the above said, after 34 years of practicing the law, I am still rather constantly amazed what federal judges will dismiss. That's mostly in the civil context, but goes for criminal too.
  19. Juror lap dances by the US Attorney?
  20. Just the Truth post by Trump is likely sufficient to show the "improper motive" aspect of a selective prosecution claim. The hardest part of such a claim is to show that those similarly situated were not prosecuted. "Similarly situated" is one of those legal buzz phrases that most lawyers know mean "no one is actually similarly situated" and you will lose this. There's always some nit that keeps the situation from being similar. And Trump tried to prosecute McCabe, but couldn't secure an indictment.
  21. I think hope and pray that this is true. And that their main issue was an ill-informed view of the economy.
  22. Ana is pissed about the abuses of the FISA court enumerated in the Carter Page dustup. I suspect that kind of thing is more normal for the FBI than abnormal and probably every single FBI director could be charged with unlawful and distasteful "citizen surveillance" during his/her tenure. I'm not a giant fan of the FBI myself, as a general matter, independent of director or administration. They're still cops and subject to pretty much all criticisms that can be leveled at cops. I also have a more generalized beef with the federalization of crime. But I'm not going to take that out on any specific director. That said, Comey seemed particularly a "glory guts" director that put himself or allowed himself to be put in the middle of things he'd have better stayed out of or lowered his profile. That doesn't merit criminal prosecution. Still, I find it vaguely satisfying that he's getting wrung out a little. What will be interesting to see is whether he does the "innocent man" defense and push for a quick trial, or employ the dilatory tactics common to those that can afford them. He can probably file highly meritorious pretrial motions on things like selective prosecution, but however meritorious, those are long-shots. He's probably best off to go to trial as fast as he possibly can. ED Va is known as a rocket docket in the civil context, don't know about criminal. But this is a pretty simple case, it seems.
  23. I feel like there are some parents, probably moms and maybe not bereaved ones, egging this on. There certainly was a lot of "Mystic must go on" sentiment at the time from certain corners.
  24. Popehat on the indictment:
×
×
  • Create New...