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This is interesting, then.
My assumption was always that Rosenstein would go after Sessions, and with no AG or Deputy AG, then Trump basically gets control of the whole DoJ. As Sessions is still in office, does he get to choose who takes over the Mueller investigation, or does that responsibility go back to Trump?
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An old law school friend has written this explainer.
EDIT: She would insist that I make clear that she isn't as old as I am.
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I presume Sessions's recusal would cover explicitly choosing who takes it over, but it's hard to see how, short of simply not confirming, you could prevent them from picking someone for deputy who would then choose themselves to oversee it as the senior non-recused DoJ official.
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Of course, but I don't think that he has 50 Senators willing to hang on all the way down.
The logistics here have gotten Byzantine. People are leaking all over the place (as always), with roughly half saying that Rosenstein has resigned and the other half saying that he insists on being fired. He has been "summoned to the White House", but 45 is up here (for the UNGA and to raise money), which would mean that someone like Kelly would have to do the deed.
It is one way to divert attention from Kavanaugh.
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Kavanaugh is trying to defend himself by saying that he was a virgin in high school and "for many years" after high school as well.
https://twitter.com/zarzarbinkss/sta...42953806888961
https://twitter.com/zarzarbinkss/status/1044342953806888961
None of the accusations, of course, say that he had intercourse with the victims, so not sure how this disproves anything...unless there are still even more accusations out there.
The branding push for him after his nomination as a normal guy who was great around teenage girls as a basketball coach and carpool driver are even ickier now.
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None of the accusations, of course, say that he had intercourse with the victims, so not sure how this disproves anything...unless there are still even more accusations out there.
The branding push for him after his nomination as a normal guy who was great around teenage girls as a basketball coach and carpool driver are even ickier now.
When I heard the republicans pushing him on the grounds that he was a carpool dad, and that he was a coach for girls, I was thinking that they should start digging in his back garden and pray that it's only kittens.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostEvidently 45 is telling people that he was never that fond of Kavanaugh, but was talked into him by the Federalist Society Cabal and the GOP leadership.
As long as "Talked into" means 45 was told that Kavanaugh believed that executive power was infinite and that he'd vote to let the President do literally whatever he wanted.
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