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Supreme Court will take up Trump’s broad claims of protection from investigation
WAPO ^ | Dec. 13, 2019 at 4:31 p.m. | Rob Barnes

Posted on 12/13/2019 1:46:21 PM PST by entropy12

The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will take up President Trump’s broad claims of protection from investigation, raising the prospect of a landmark election-year ruling on the limits of presidential power.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: abortion; brettkavanaugh; districtofcolumbia; jeffbezos; maga; robbarnes; scotus; taxes; trump; trumpscotus; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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Finally!
1 posted on 12/13/2019 1:46:21 PM PST by entropy12
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To: entropy12

More winning. Not tired yet.


2 posted on 12/13/2019 1:50:58 PM PST by Gahanna Bob
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To: entropy12

“The committees are seeking more than 10 years of financial records on Trump, his three oldest children — Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump — and the president’s businesses.”

Just wow.


3 posted on 12/13/2019 1:51:52 PM PST by plain talk
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To: Gahanna Bob

Winning? What actual decisions have been made by the SCOTUS on this case?


4 posted on 12/13/2019 1:54:38 PM PST by CatOwner
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To: entropy12

Notice the spin on that WP headline. Why do we post them here?


5 posted on 12/13/2019 1:56:19 PM PST by Revel
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To: entropy12
DemonRats' pattern of:

HARASSMENT!

Please get this RIGHT, SCOTUS.

6 posted on 12/13/2019 1:56:36 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Revel

WP is just a news source, and NOT the decider.
SCOTUS will be the decider, no matter how WAPO spins it.


7 posted on 12/13/2019 1:58:10 PM PST by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or for government price fixing. Can't be for both as convenient.)
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To: CatOwner

One step at a time. Scotus acceptance is step 1.


8 posted on 12/13/2019 1:58:53 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: plain talk

I was always under the impression the government prosecutors need to show a cause to force anyone from submitting documents and evidence.


9 posted on 12/13/2019 1:59:57 PM PST by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or for government price fixing. Can't be for both as convenient.)
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To: entropy12

Supreme Court will take up Trump’s broad claims of protection from investigation...............

I think they meant to say....Supreme Court will take up Trump’s broad claims of CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.


10 posted on 12/13/2019 2:01:11 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: CatOwner

Come on... If SCOTUS refuses to take up the case, the lower court decision (which went against Trump) will stand.


11 posted on 12/13/2019 2:02:18 PM PST by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or for government price fixing. Can't be for both as convenient.)
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To: entropy12

If a President is suspected...seriously suspected...of a serious crime the answer is to impeach and remove him/her from office and *then* he/she can be criminally investigated in the same way anyone else could be.


12 posted on 12/13/2019 2:03:48 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: shelterguy

Any spin put on by the media has little meaning. Only meaningful event is when SCOTUS decides, because there are NO more appeals available.


13 posted on 12/13/2019 2:04:24 PM PST by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or for government price fixing. Can't be for both as convenient.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Yes, and the alleged crime has to convince 67 senators that the crime was serious.


14 posted on 12/13/2019 2:05:36 PM PST by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or for government price fixing. Can't be for both as convenient.)
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To: entropy12

Actually there should be a land mark ruling limiting Congress’s abuse of it investigative powers for partisan political reasons.

The Court has an excellent opportunity here to smack the Congress for it reckless abuse of power hard. The Court needs to hit them hard to impose a reminder of the legal limits on their powers in dealing with Co Equal branches of Govt.
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15 posted on 12/13/2019 2:10:56 PM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: entropy12

I wouldn’t be so sure about the outcome of this. They probably took the case because of its national importance, not necessarily that they want to reverse the lower court.


16 posted on 12/13/2019 2:13:11 PM PST by colorado tanker
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Yes, if you have faith in Roberts.


17 posted on 12/13/2019 2:13:43 PM PST by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or for government price fixing. Can't be for both as convenient.)
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To: colorado tanker

Good point.


18 posted on 12/13/2019 2:14:20 PM PST by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or for government price fixing. Can't be for both as convenient.)
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To: entropy12

Not just Trump’s claims. This will impact every POTUS from now going forward.


19 posted on 12/13/2019 2:15:07 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: entropy12
Supreme Court will take up Trump’s broad claims of protection from investigation

Even the headline is biased, as if Trump is claiming nobody can investigate him for any reason.

His claim is that the Congress does not have rights it only recently claimed for itself - the ability to obtain and scrutinize the financial and tax returns for a president and everybody in his family and personal and professional business circles in a desperate and political search for crimes unspecified.

20 posted on 12/13/2019 2:16:02 PM PST by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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