{"id":37813,"date":"2019-12-23T17:13:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T22:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37813"},"modified":"2019-12-23T17:13:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T22:13:04","slug":"the-real-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37813","title":{"rendered":"The Real Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you no doubt are aware, Senator Schumer has ‘uncovered’ documents that show that the Democrats need to call witnesses in the Senate in addition to witnesses that testified in the House of Representatives. While this is much ado about nothing, The Conservative Treehouse<\/a> posted an article today that explains the actual goal of all the drama. The article is very detailed (including the full arguments from the House of Representatives asking for more witnesses and the Department of Justice’s response). I suggest that you follow the link above to read the entire thing.<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

As we suspected, albeit against much criticism, House counsel Doug Letter has responded to the DC Appeals Court arguing the forced testimony of White House counsel Don McGahn is needed for evidence in impeachment trial. [Court pdf Avail Here<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n

This court filing today bolsters the unspoken background motive for delayed House Impeachment Managers.\u00a0 The House Judiciary Committee is using impeachment as support for their ongoing effort to gain: Don McGahn deposition, and Mueller grand jury material (6e).\u00a0 The goal is opposition research; impeachment is a tool<\/em> to establish legal standing to obtain it.\u00a0 Everything else is chaff and countermeasures.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Democrats are looking for a legal basis to continue their fishing expedition to gather campaign fodder for 2020.<\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

This court filing bolsters CTH analysis<\/a> that rushed House articles are a means to an end. That is \u2013 a way for House lawyers to argue in court all of the constitutionally contended material is required as evidence for pending judicial proceedings, a trial in the Senate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This would explain why all the prior evidence debated for inclusion and legal additions to \u201carticles of impeachment\u201d were dropped. Instead the House focused only on quickly framing two articles that can facilitate pending court cases.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…REMINDER: The House Judiciary Committee (HJC) led by Chairman Jerry Nadler has been seeking: (1) Mueller grand jury material<\/a>; (2) a deposition by former White House counsel Don McGahn<\/a>; and less importantly (3) Trump financial and tax records.\u00a0 Each of these issues is currently being argued in appellate courts (6e and McGahn) and the supreme court<\/a> (financials\/taxes).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Looking at the legal maneuvers from that perspective means the grand jury material is the unspoken goal and impeachment is simply the enhanced means<\/em> to obtain it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 6(e) material relates to evidence gathered by the Mueller team for grand jury proceedings in their two-year effort to construct a case against President Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember, the Mueller evidence was gathered during a counterintelligence<\/em> investigation, which means all things Trump -including his family and business interests- were subject to unbridled surveillance for two years; and a host of intelligence gathering going back in time indefinitely. A goldmine of political opposition research.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obviously if Jerry Nadler could get his hands on this material it would quickly find its way into the DNC, and ultimately to the 2020 democrat candidate for president. This material would also be fuel for a year of leaks to DC media who could exploit rumor, supposition, and drops of information that Andrew Weissmann and team left to be discovered.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article highlights some of the Department of Justice response:<\/p>\n

[\u2026] \u201cPursuing an interbranch suit in court while simultaneously pursuing impeachment, and then using that litigation as part of the impeachment proceedings, is \u201cfar from the model of the traditional common-law cause of action at the conceptual core of the case-or-controversy requirement.\u201d Raines v. Byrd, 521 U.S. 811, 833 (1997) (Souter, J., concurring). But that is exactly what the Committee has done. The effect of that choice is<\/strong>
\nto \u201cembroil the federal courts in a power contest nearly at the height of its political tension.\u201d Id.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Indeed, if this Court now were to resolve the merits question in this case, it would appear to be weighing in on a contested issue in any impeachment trial. That would be of questionable propriety whether or not such a judicial resolution preceded or post-dated any impeachment trial. Cf. Nixon v. United States, 506 U.S. 224, 232, 235-36 (1993).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The now very real possibility of this Court appearing to weigh in on an article of impeachment at a time when political tensions are at their highest levels\u2014before, during, or after a Senate trial regarding the removal of a President\u2014puts in stark relief why this sort of interbranch dispute is not one that has \u201ctraditionally thought to be capable of resolution through the judicial process.\u201d Raines, 521 U.S. at 819.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This Court should decline the Committee\u2019s request that it enter the fray and instead should dismiss this fraught suit between the political branches for lack of jurisdiction.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stay tuned. Meanwhile, understand that the emails that Senator Schumer has discovered are not a ‘smoking gun’–they are simply a record of the way business is done in Washington.<\/p>\n

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