It doesn’t? It seems pretty self explanatory to me. What part are you having trouble with, and maybe we can sort this out.
How could you know what if any affect the change from Sessions to Whitaker would have until Whitaker actually orders or changes something…and then you would have to know what Rosenstein would have done.
The things Whitaker has written and said? That’s the only reason he’s in there, to play hatchet man. He’s already volunteered a couple of different ways he would hamstring Mueller and he thinks the whole thing is a crock.
“Golly, how can we know anything until it does it?” So precious.
We can know these things because he’s TOLD US.
Are you suggesting that Whitaker is the equivalent of Trump’s Strzok? I have seen no evidence of that.
What he was talking about was a hypothetical case that CNN gave a fake report on where Mueller would do a pure fishing investigaton of Trumps finances without any reason to believe anything was in there. That is called a fishing investigation and should have been shut down…except CNN just made it up that Mueller was going to do that so it never happened.
If it had happened, it would have been far beyond the scope of the Mueller investigation and should have been shut down.’
Since Mueller never did such a thing, the effect of having Whitaker in ther would have been zero.
Did Eric Holder had a history of controversial statement/comments prior to being nominated as AG?
How about Loretta Lynch?
Anyone that’s been in public eye had em…unless you think double standards are acceptable for only one side.
Why would the Court rule on the legitimacy of Whittaker when the order of succession has been bypassed? Plain and simple, Whittaker MUST BE CONFIRMED. There’s no way around this.
Because the subsequent law of 1998 allows the President to appoint whomever he wishes within the DOJ assuming they meet a few requirements that Whitaker clearly meets. We can and I assume will go back and forth on that. Ultimately it will be the court that decides that.
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About specific investigations that they were hired in an ad hoc way to be put in charge of? I doubt it.
The order of seccussion law uses a key word. "MAY’ in it’s section a. Not shall/must/will be x person. Section b deals with a scinaris where the deputy attorney general is “not available” so it’s not applicable as the depurty director is available.
With the option “may”, it means there is another opeion. That would be the other law that says the acting person MUST have been on the job 90 days and MUST have a pay grade of x or above.
Amendment doesnt’ say “confirmed” – says consent of the senate. The senate consented to a person who is on the job 90 days with a certain pay grade of x or above to be acting director when they passed the law. No senate since has taken away that consent.
No, not as it pertained to a single solitary investigation into the President. Not even close.
ETA And outlining the actual steps he could take to thwart that investigation.
Right?
The guy basically outlined his game plan for how he would try to kill the Mueller investigation. He did it in public, has met with Trump at least a dozen times in the White House, and that is the only reason he’s there.
It’s hard to even cobble together a hypothetical analogy. Like, the FBI did do an investigation of the IRS targeting (non)controversy in 2014. Some lawyer goes on TV and elsewhere to repeatedly explain how and why that specific investigation should be shut down. And then Obama picks that guy to be head of the FBI, during a lame-duck session with no confirmation? LOL. I am sure the wingnuts here would be fine with it. Hey, we can’t prejudge! We have no idea what he’ll do or why he was appointed!
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He’s the President! He can do whatever he wants, and everybody should be a lot nicer to him.
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trump decides what is and isnt legal and he has made his decision
This is not going to end well for Whittaker.
And Idiot Boy says he’s never met Whittaker. More lies
No, not in this case. The guy on FOX, Nepalitano (sp) AND George Conway both say trump cannot place Whittaker without Senate confirmation.
And exactly what requirements does he meet? Kissing ass? Dissing Mueller?
What process? 2016 taught us that “advice and consent” is more of a guideline than a process.
Trump is now denying knowing Whitaker:
Except the part where just a month ago he said he knew Whitaker and that he was a great guy. Listen to Trump tell us the words during this Fox and friends segment from a month ago (he says it a little after the 35m mark):
And good lord, that was some interview. A 45 minute interview with F&F. What a cozy relationship.
I mean, either he’s hearing toward dementia, or he’s just such a brazen liar and his supporters don’t care. But honest MUST matter to everyone else…just not Dear Leader.
