Posted on 05/12/2019 4:18:07 PM PDT by rintintin
University of California Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo, the author of George W. Bush era “torture memos,” opined in the New York Times that President Donald Trump is taking executive authority too far with his response to congressional oversight.
Yoo was quoted in the Times saying the across the board stonewall of congressional subpoenas to testify or supply information was “unusual” in that it is a “blanket refusal.”
“It would be extraordinary if the president actually were to try to stop all congressional testimony on subpoenaed issues. That would actually be unprecedented if it were a complete ban,” Yoo said.
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John Yoo was a mouthpiece for Bush and the Iraq War. Trump has trashed Bush and the Iraq War. Is anybody surprised that Yoo doesn’t like him?
So is spying on a Presidential candidate, and a corrupt CIA and DOJ attempt to at a legalistic coup
It’s not unprecedented.
Yoo Who?
Equine excrement...what this lefty moron is full to the brim with!
Eric-the-Red stiff-armed congress.
Loretta Lynch pled the 5th.
This is about members of his cabinet or team....not everyone who is breathing.
Demagogic Party abuse of law via lawfare is not unprecedented, just the quantity of it is..
The unrelenting attacks on the President, his cabinet and his family are "unprecedented". The insertion of spies, the use of wiretaps, the collusion with foreign intelligence and the use of the CIA, FBI and NSA against a presidential candidate, a President Elect and a duly elected President of the United States is "unprecedented".
It is time for POTUS to tell congress to pound sand. Quit throwing a temper tantrum over losing the 2016 election and do you job as LEGISLATORS.
Every dem that votes for contempt of Barr should be arrested for Conspiracy to Coerce a felony crime.
Trump is a precedent-setting president.
Who cares if it's never been done that way in the past. That's why I voted for Trump.
I'm tired of all the dysfunctional establishment politicians and ineffective elites running the country into the ground.
To get things done differently, Trump has to do things differently.
time’s up for Horowitz and Huber. end the farce and release your reports now.
Releasing them before that is stupid.
Perhaps he means the torture applied by the Democrats in the form of endless targeting to satisfy their quest to remove President Trump. At least I hope that is what he means. At first I thought he meant 2 1/2 years of President Trump is enough, but I hope it is my alternative supposition.
Any government employee that in an official capacity issues orders, such as a subpoena, that instructs another government employee to break federal law, has broken the law. Same as a superior officer in the military issuing a blatantly illegal order to subordinates. DOJ needs to arrest everyone on the House judicial committee.
It may be unusual if there had not been a full and thorough investigation already. Given the circumstances unless there are any new revelations a blanket suppression would seem a reasonable step given the intractable nature of the Democrats behavior.
Congressional testimony on what? A false crime made up by the opposition? It’s time to pull the sedition card!
Unprecedented, like Americans using torture before Yoo approved it?
2 years of this krap from Congress is more than enough!
and there’s nothing unprecedented about upholding our constitutional separation of powers, and if there were to be... then...good!
Somebody has to rein in these nutjobs in congress...
they are not our Fuhrers
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