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Reaps
Profile Joined June 2012
United Kingdom1280 Posts
October 03 2017 16:58 GMT
#178221
On October 04 2017 01:45 farvacola wrote:
In other news deserving national shame, the U.S. joined Iraq, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia today as it voted against a U.N. ban on homosexuality being punishable by death.

Fucking disgraceful.



What the fuck, i have no words.
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
October 03 2017 17:01 GMT
#178222
On October 04 2017 01:57 GreenHorizons wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 04 2017 01:52 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:


jfc.

Tell me this evokes a sense of shame in people that voted for him. Please?

My brother said about a month ago "I voted for a real asshole, didn't I?" to my father. That was good enough for me. I'm not even going to ask him about this one.
I have the Honor to be your Obedient Servant, P.6
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{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
October 03 2017 17:05 GMT
#178223
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has a distinctly modern problem. The president, judging by his tweets, could try to pardon people in his circle even before prosecutors charge anyone with a crime.

Mueller’s all-star team of prosecutors, with expertise in money laundering and foreign bribery, has an answer to that. He’s Michael Dreeben, a bookish career government lawyer with more than 100 Supreme Court appearances under his belt.

Acting as Mueller’s top legal counsel, Dreeben has been researching past pardons and determining what, if any, limits exist, according to a person familiar with the matter. Dreeben’s broader brief is to make sure the special counsel’s prosecutorial moves are legally airtight. That could include anything from strategizing on novel interpretations of criminal law to making sure the recent search warrant on ex-campaign adviser Paul Manafort’s home would stand up to an appeal.

"He’s seen every criminal case of any consequence in the last 20 years," said Kathryn Ruemmler of Latham & Watkins LLP, who served as White House counsel under President Barack Obama. "If you wanted to do a no-knock warrant, he’d be a great guy to consult with to determine if you were exposing yourself.”

Dreeben, 62, built that expertise over three decades as an appeals lawyer at the Justice Department. As a deputy solicitor general, he’s pored over prosecutors’ moves in more than a thousand federal criminal prosecutions and defended many of them from challenges all the way to the nation’s highest court.

Dreeben has begun working on legal issues as a counselor to Mueller but is also retaining some of his solicitor general work for the sake of continuity, according to Peter Carr, a spokesman for the special counsel’s office. Carr declined to elaborate on Dreeben’s work with Mueller or make Dreeben available for comment.

Pre-emptive pardons are a distinct possibility now that current and former Trump advisers are under Mueller’s scrutiny. Trump himself has tweeted that everyone agrees the U.S. president has “complete power to pardon." Some of those kinds of executive moves have been well studied, including Gerald Ford’s swift pardon of Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton’s exoneration of fugitive financier Marc Rich. But the legal territory is largely uncharted over pardons of a president’s own campaign workers, family members or even himself -- and how prosecutors’ work would then be affected.

Trump, Russia and the Early Murmurs About Pardons: QuickTake Q&A

What Dreeben brings to the question, say those who know him, is a credibility that comes from parsing how criminal prosecutions have played out across the country. A balding and bearded New Jersey native with a slightly nasal delivery, he has a knack for building careful arguments and the eloquence in court to lay them out in well-reasoned paragraphs, said Miguel Estrada, a lawyer at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

His path wasn’t exactly direct. Dreeben intended to pursue an advanced degree in history at the University of Chicago before changing his mind and enrolling at Duke University School of Law, according to a profile of him last year in Law360. He studied at Duke under Sara Beale, who’d worked in the Solicitor General’s office and helped plant the idea of representing the U.S. in arguments before the country’s highest court.

Dreeben got his first shot in 1989. His opponent before the Supreme Court was another first-timer, a private practice lawyer named John Roberts.

Dreeben lost. But the moment left an impression on Roberts, now the court’s Chief Justice. After Dreeben made his 100th argument before the court last year, Roberts called him back to the lectern, recalling the decades-earlier meeting.

“You have consistently advocated positions on behalf of the United States in an exemplary manner,” Roberts said, extending the court’s appreciation for his “many years of advocacy and dedicated service.”

Dreeben had urged the court that day to uphold the conviction of former Virginia governor Robert McDonnell on charges of public corruption. The Supreme Court ultimately overturned McDonnell’s conviction.

Dreeben’s reviews of how cases were built against McDonnell and others will be invaluable to Mueller. Appellate lawyers like Dreeben are stuck with decisions already made at the prosecutorial level, said Estrada, who worked in the Solicitor General’s office in the 1990s. But now, he added, Dreeben is in a position to troubleshoot problems before cases are filed.

“You have to argue what you’ve got, and the cake is already baked,” Estrada said. On Mueller’s team, by contrast, Dreeben “has the opportunity to measure the flour.”


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Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10700 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-03 17:08:49
October 03 2017 17:06 GMT
#178224
I kinda enjoy the tought of you having a family get together, a newsbump lightens your phone and you try to remain silent while screaming inside


Btw: That the president/anyone has the power to pardon someone is fucked up to a level i can't describe. Who is he? God?
Jockmcplop
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United Kingdom9646 Posts
October 03 2017 17:07 GMT
#178225
On October 04 2017 01:57 GreenHorizons wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 04 2017 01:52 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/915256217991294982


jfc.

Tell me this evokes a sense of shame in people that voted for him. Please?


They are desperately thinking of ways to defend this as we speak.
RIP Meatloaf <3
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
October 03 2017 17:09 GMT
#178226
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
farvacola
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States18825 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-03 17:15:01
October 03 2017 17:14 GMT
#178227
On October 04 2017 02:06 Velr wrote:
I kinda enjoy the tought of you having a family get together, a newsbump lightens your phone and you try to remain silent while screaming inside


Btw: That the president/anyone has the power to pardon someone is fucked up to a level i can't describe. Who is he? God?

There are a few limitations on that rule that may actually come into play if Mueller is as crafty and steadfast as the rumor mill predicts. Specifically, the President can only pardon individuals convicted of federal crimes, so state charges the likes of which may come out of New York alongside Mueller's eventual indictments would be immune to presidential pardons. It's also unclear when the pardoning power is available relative to conviction/sentencing; the judge who convicted Fuckface Joe Arpaio has refused to toss out his conviction and is still deliberating as to whether she has to follow Trump's pardon given that it was issued prior to sentencing.
"when the Dead Kennedys found out they had skinhead fans, they literally wrote a song titled 'Nazi Punks Fuck Off'"
FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Profile Blog Joined March 2013
Netherlands30548 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-03 17:30:16
October 03 2017 17:15 GMT
#178228
On October 04 2017 01:52 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/915256217991294982

lmao this conversation. In a few sentences, he turns a conversation that's about thanking Air Force for their work in Puerto Rico into them having to thank him for stealth bombers

UNIDENTIFIED: I'm representing the Air Force.

TRUMP: I know that.

UNIDENTIFIED: We have the team effort for FEMA and also the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico specifically and trying to open up the airfields that begin as they get the majority of the supplies in and setting up across the island with the numbers. We can get to the most devastated by it.

TRUMP: And the runways are pretty open?

UNIDENTIFIED: Yes, sir. We have four major runways that are operational and about 700-plus strategic stories on the island of Puerto Rico to provide the license to them.

TRUMP: Amazing job. So amazing, we are ordering hundreds of millions of dollars of new airplanes for the Air Force. Especially the F-35. You like the F-35?

UNIDENTIFIED: Game-changing [inaudible]. Awesome airplane.

TRUMP: I said how does it do in fights, how do they do in fights with the F-35? They said we do really well, you can’t see it. You literally can’t see it. So it’s hard to fight a plane you can’t see.

UNIDENTIFIED: Yes, sir.

TRUMP: But that's an expensive plane you can't see. As you heard, we cut the price substantially, something that other administrations would never have done. That I can tell you.
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Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
October 03 2017 17:16 GMT
#178229
On October 04 2017 02:06 Velr wrote:
I kinda enjoy the tought of you having a family get together, a newsbump lightens your phone and you try to remain silent while screaming inside


Btw: That the president/anyone has the power to pardon someone is fucked up to a level i can't describe. Who is he? God?

So here is the thing, most countries have some ability to pardon people, either through elected bodies or a person. We do as well and it normally is used with great respect for due process and the legal system.

But we have never been here before, where the president was never a public servant and has zero respect for the rule of law. Even Nixon, who didn't really respect the rule of law, knew his limits. We are now in an area where the president could test the very limits of congress's ability to check him and I'm not sure how it would work out.
I have the Honor to be your Obedient Servant, P.6
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Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10700 Posts
October 03 2017 17:31 GMT
#178230
Some ability is diffrent than plainly giving it to your president.
Nevuk
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States16280 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-03 17:36:28
October 03 2017 17:35 GMT
#178231
On October 04 2017 02:06 Velr wrote:
I kinda enjoy the tought of you having a family get together, a newsbump lightens your phone and you try to remain silent while screaming inside


Btw: That the president/anyone has the power to pardon someone is fucked up to a level i can't describe. Who is he? God?

Can't pardon anyone of any crimes. President can only pardon federal and governors can only pardon state crimes. If Trump pardons himself he's guilty of plenty of state crimes in NY.
LegalLord
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
United Kingdom13775 Posts
October 03 2017 17:37 GMT
#178232
There's definitely situations under which the legal result was clearly not suitable to some very exceptional circumstances - making a pardon authority perfectly reasonable.
History will sooner or later sweep the European Union away without mercy.
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42653 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-03 17:42:11
October 03 2017 17:40 GMT
#178233
On October 04 2017 02:06 Velr wrote:
I kinda enjoy the tought of you having a family get together, a newsbump lightens your phone and you try to remain silent while screaming inside


Btw: That the president/anyone has the power to pardon someone is fucked up to a level i can't describe. Who is he? God?

The executive is in charge of law enforcement, always has been. It's almost certainly the same in your country.

In the UK the PM wields the monarch's power to pardon people of crimes but Parliament can remove the PM at a whim.
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Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10700 Posts
October 03 2017 17:41 GMT
#178234
Nixon got pardoned, so.... In most countries leaders like that would have the decensy to flee it but that wasn't necessary.
ticklishmusic
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States15977 Posts
October 03 2017 17:45 GMT
#178235
seems like nixon is one of those things where i feel like everyone just figured once is okay to avoid a potential constitutional crisis, but it happening a second time would probably be a constitutional crisis in and of itself.
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Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-03 17:49:51
October 03 2017 17:48 GMT
#178236
Nixon 2.0 might not fly. I would also point out Nixon prime made the public very angry and paved the way for this problem.
I have the Honor to be your Obedient Servant, P.6
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Seuss
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States10536 Posts
October 03 2017 17:56 GMT
#178237
The best part is our impending constitutional crisis is almost certainly going to start via Twitter.
"I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me." -Moses (Numbers 11:14)
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
October 03 2017 18:11 GMT
#178238
As long as @dog_rates makes it through the downfall of twitter, I’m ok with that. Because the downfall of that garbage company is coming.

Also, in other tech company news: apparently Uber was caught destroying evidence in a lawsuit, which has gotten them in the hot water. This continues the never ending stream of tech companies destroying evidence thinking that court didn’t solve that problem back when people just burned documents.
I have the Honor to be your Obedient Servant, P.6
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Sadist
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States7227 Posts
October 03 2017 18:12 GMT
#178239
On October 04 2017 01:58 Reaps wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 04 2017 01:45 farvacola wrote:
In other news deserving national shame, the U.S. joined Iraq, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia today as it voted against a U.N. ban on homosexuality being punishable by death.

Fucking disgraceful.



What the fuck, i have no words.




Its not what it seems. Other countries voted no as well. Its not as if it was just the middle east.

It wasnt just for homosexuality either. Other things were listed too. It sounds like countries that have the death penalty pretty much always vote no on stuff like this.

I think on the left we have to do better. This makes us an easy target for the "fake news" chants.
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Artisreal
Profile Joined June 2009
Germany9235 Posts
October 03 2017 18:15 GMT
#178240
It is a big deal if the country of self proclaimed freedom denies that freedom to people of a specific sexual orientation.
The left can target various policies at once. Nothing dumber than fighting internally
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