You may have been exhausted by the marathon session of arguments for amendments to the McConnell Rules for the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump on the first day of the impeachment trial, but as a trial attorney I found it fascinating and brilliant lawyering by the House managers. It was painfully obvious to me … Read more
At the eleventh hour, “The Enemy of The People,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued his rules for the Senate impeachment trial — the rules were not negotiated with Senate Democrats, but they were done in “total coordination” with the Defendant in the White House — which depart significantly from the “Clinton Rules” of impeachment … Read more
The Senate impeachment trial is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, but “The Enemy of The People,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, is keeping the House managers of the impeachment trial and the American people in the dark about the trial rules. This is bad faith, an abuse of power, and the opposite of a fair … Read more
“The Enemy of The People,” the “Grim Reaper” of the Senate graveyard where bills and constitutional governance go to die, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, or as Gail Collins says, President Mitch McConnell (“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who actually runs the country, expressed support for his minion, Donald Trump . …”), is ready to … Read more
Two panels of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard back-to-back oral arguments today for the House of Representatives enforcing its subpoena for the testimony of former White House counsel Don McGahn, and obtaining the grand jury materials of Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel investigation. Politico has an early report of what happened … Read more