Above image from GOD’S PLAN FOR MIKE PENCE, by McKay Coppins. The New York Times reported, Pence to Oppose Subpoena Seeking Testimony in Jan. 6 Inquiry: Former Vice President Mike Pence is planning to fight a federal grand jury subpoena compelling him to testify in the investigation into President Donald J. Trump’s actions leading up … Read more
In a CNN report on Donald Trump’s eleventh-hour pardons for his cronies and corrupt Republican politicians like former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi of Arizona was this remarkable revelation: So, too, was Trump warned that pardons for Republican lawmakers who had sought them for their role in the Capitol insurrection would anger the very Senate Republicans … Read more
Many gave President Gerald Ford credit for pardoning President Richard Nixon to “put Watergate behind us.” Ford justified this decision by claiming that a long, drawn-out trial would only have further polarized the public. Many others strongly disagreed. Ford’s press secretary, J.F. terHorst, resigned in protest. The American people were convinced that President Ford was “wrong … Read more
Charlotte Butash and Margaret Taylor have the full play-by-play color commentary, complete with an audio link, of the Oral Arguments in the DC Circuit En Banc Consideration of Committee on the Judiciary v. McGahn and U.S. House of Representatives v. Mnuchin at Lawfare Blog. From the introductory portion of their analysis: On April 28, Justice … Read more
A federal judge on Monday dismissed and declared moot (.pdf) a lawsuit by former deputy national security adviser Charles Kupperman, who was seeking a ruling on whether to comply with a subpoena in the House’s impeachment inquiry or a directive from the White House blocking his testimony. Kupperman and his former boss, former national security adviser John … Read more