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2020-01-17 Home Front: Politix

Trump impeachment team to include Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz

[AP] President Trump's impeachment team will include two former independent counsels, Ken Starr and Robert Ray, and constitutional law professor Alan Dershowitz.

The team will be led by White House counsel Pat Cipollone and will include Jay Sekulow, a personal attorney to the president.

Starr, who in December said impeachment was "absolutely" an effort to overthrow the president, led the investigation into President Bill Clinton, the second U.S. president to be impeached.
Hopefully the Orange Man can keep them on board for a post-Senate Impeachment Trial investigation of one Hunter Biden.

Posted by Beavis 2020-01-17 11:18|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 How you like them apples Nancy ?

Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-17 11:36|| 2020-01-17 11:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Whoa!!
This is going to be short.
Or maybe like Meadowlark Lemon & Curly Neal vs the Washington Generals. Fun times.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-17 11:38|| 2020-01-17 11:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Please keep that seat warm a bit longer RBG. You can do it !

Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-17 11:40|| 2020-01-17 11:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Dershowitz, I disagree with him very often but respect him. Possibly the only die-hard lefty I can say that about these days.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-01-17 12:29|| 2020-01-17 12:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Dershowitz recently wrote a typically brilliantly-argued piece recommending outright dismissal of Peach-Mint Julep on grounds of zero evidence for the allegations.

Combining Dershowitz for criminal defense brilliance, Starr for unparalleled knowledge of the constitutional issues, and McConnell for mastery of procedure, this will be swift and brutal for the Shitshow-mongers.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-17 12:35|| 2020-01-17 12:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Lex re #5 - From your luips to God's ears.

Posted by warthogswife 2020-01-17 12:45|| 2020-01-17 12:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Dershowitz has already entered the fray - here's his statement, which interestingly uses the third person as if to underscore how incredibly important it is that we kill the Shitshow tendency, now, before rule of law in this country becomes a joke:

"Dershowitz will present oral arguments at the Senate trial to address the constitutional arguments against impeachment and removal.

While Professor Dershowitz is non partisan when it comes to the Constitution — he opposed the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and voted for Hillary Clinton — he believes the issues at stake go to the heart of our enduring Constitution.

He is participating in this impeachment trial to defend the integrity of the Constitution and to prevent the creation of a dangerous constitutional precedent."

Posted by Lex 2020-01-17 12:58|| 2020-01-17 12:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Perhaps should be retitled as Trump impeachment DEFENSE team

Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-17 13:58|| 2020-01-17 13:58|| Front Page Top

#9 I, for one, hope it is brutal.

But long. I like the six weeks suggested a few days ago. Lamentations and weeping, begging for the end, for the last four week.

Posted by Bobby 2020-01-17 16:25|| 2020-01-17 16:25|| Front Page Top

#10 The intersting thing is Ken Starr was the guy known for somewhat expanding the Clinton investigation. If I were the Biden's I'd be looking for property in Rio for young Hunter about now.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-01-17 16:43|| 2020-01-17 16:43|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ probably Bolivia, knowing Hoover's habits ...

Posted by Lex 2020-01-17 20:53|| 2020-01-17 20:53|| Front Page Top

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