Posted on 07/12/2018 9:52:43 AM PDT by Enlightened1
What is Rosenstein up to now?
And where is AG Sessions??
In an unusual request, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein asked federal prosecutors to help review documents of President Trump’s SCOTUS nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.
Rosenstein’s email subject line sent to 93 US Attorney’d read, “Personal Message to U.S. Attorneys From the Deputy A.G.,” and included the sentence, “We need your help in connection with President Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the Supreme Court.”
The New York Times reported:
Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, has asked federal prosecutors to help review the government documents of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, according to a letter obtained by The New York Times on Wednesday.
Mr. Rosenstein’s request was an unusual insertion of politics into federal law enforcement. While the Justice Department has helped work on previous Supreme Court nominations, department lawyers in Washington typically carry out that task, not prosecutors who pursue criminal investigations nationwide.
But in an email sent this week to the nation’s 93 United States attorneys, Mr. Rosenstein asked each office to provide up to three federal prosecutors “who can make this important project a priority for the next several weeks.” Names were to be submitted to Mr. Rosenstein’s office by the end of Wednesday.
Mr. Rosenstein’s email, which had the subject line “Personal Message to U.S. Attorneys From the Deputy A.G.,” included the sentence, “We need your help in connection with President Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the Supreme Court.”
According to Christopher Hunter, a former FBI agent and federal prosecutor, “It’s flat-out wrong to have career federal prosecutors engaged in a political process like the vetting of a Supreme Court nominee...
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
I thought they had ‘X’ amount of time dedicated for the investigation and then the vote...
Rosenstein knows he won’t be fired, so he’s a ring lols a dictator.
Rosenstein knows he won’t be fired, so he’s acting like a dictator.
I heard a Foxnews commentator say it’s SOP. But my suspicion is that Rosenstein is trying to concoct an excuse for not producing documents in the Russia probe.
Rosenstein seems to style himself a player on the chess board, in this instance, a bishop which moves obliquely, and not often to the same purposes as the king, the Queen or the various knights, never to depart from the coloration with which it began.
I’m going with Tom Fitton
Now, you've changed your argument.
Your first argument was that Obama holdovers would "drag their feet on document production".
Democrats and Deep State Holders dragging their feet is not part of the normal Senate committee confirmation process. The normal preparation time to prepare for the confirmation process by both sides is about a month.
Grassley limiting the preparation time to one month wouldn't be an example of a chairman "arbitrarily changing the way the Senate committee process works".
The Democrats and Rosenstein don't have the power to "drag their feet" and delay a confirmation hearing.
Repeating what I said once again, it is up to the majority chairman, Senator Grassley, to determine when the committee votes and I know that after that, it only requires 51 votes on the floor to end debate.
I agree I think we are going to see a lot of cleaning house in November and December after the election when the slim majority in the senate is increased a few seats and when the house picks up a few more seats. Trump is all about timing his attacks on he Muller probe and other deep state operations. I think after Christmas is when the FBI and the department of justice has been cleaned out of political operative for both parties is when we will see the criminal activities gone after. this has always been a long game with trump.
Grassley is not going to end debate without giving the Democrats the opportunity to review Kavanaugh’s papers the same way Republicans had the opportunity to review Kagan’s and Sotomayor’s papers.
In order to review the papers, those in possession of the DOJ have to be produced.
In the confirmations of Kagan and Sotomayor, there was no incentive for DOJ swamp people to drag their feet on producing the papers. They wanted them to be confirmed.
Here, because we are coming up on an election, there is an incentive for the swamp to drag its feet in hopes that maybe they can delay this until after the election.
Your thinking that Grassley and McConnell will vote to end debate and confirm Kavanaugh if the DOJ is slow to produce the papers for the committee to review is a fantasy.
And why would anybody who wants to see Kavanaugh confirmed object to Sessions throwing more people at the document production task in order to get it done more quickly?
I can understand why the New York Times objects to Sessions throwing more bodies at the task to get it done faster, but I can’t understand why conservatives would agree with the New York Times on this.
Advise and consent is delegated to the senate. Rosenstein is IMO taunting Trump to fire him. Trump should just do it. Sessions is useless.
One more example of Deep State intimidation.
“If you work for Trump you’re gonna get worked over!”
He has over 300 opinions and a mountain of writings. That’s why McConnell urged President Trump to pick someone else. (At least, it was his stated reason.) It takes a long time to go through it all.
Now, Rosenstein could be up to Deep State games, looking for a way to undermine the nominee (which, IMO, would only cause the president to give them anominee they’d like even less.) But there is some non-zero probability that they’re simply trying to expedite the process.
Or possibly both at once.
No, it is Trumps failure to clean out the vipers nest. This guy should have been fired months ago and sessions can share plane out of town.
“I am DUMFOUNDED why Trump has not yet corrected the Crippling Jeff Sessions mistake. And don’t tell me the GOP-e wonn’t confirm Sessions’s replacement. Trump can easily bully/shame the GOP-e into submission. Ultimately, they are wimps”
If Sessions ousted, Rosenstein, the Deputy AG would take over. Timing is everything. Trust Trump to clean house at the right moment.
That is the only scenario that makes sense. Otherwise Trump would have sent an EO declassifying everything that the Senate and House committees investigating “Russia, Russia, Russia” have demanded access to. The whole “Russia, Russia, Russia” smoke would have blown away long ago if he had done that, and he knows it.It seems that Trump is using the Democrats’ unreasonableness in a bid to get a strong Republican majority in the Senate. That motive disappears the day after the election, and presumably the fireworks go off then.
The vote for SCOTUS vacancy replacement Judge Brett Kavanaugh will help the Republicans unless - perhaps even if - senators like Manchin vote for confirmation. If Manchin votes no, Trump voters likely vote him out in November. If Manchin votes yes, his supporters probably stay home. I hope.
Normal procedures involve document requests to the FBI, not the DOJ. It is pure fantasy to think that Rosenstein, inserting himself (and his US Attorneys) into this process will expedite this procedure. Rosenstein has been stonewalling document requests for 18 months.
Your thinking that Sessions and Trump have ordered the stonewalling Rosenstein to get involved, is pure fantasy.
Do I trust Grassley (who doesn't like Rosenstein) and McConnell (who did after all change the filibuster rule) at this point more than I trust Rod Rosenstein, the guy who has been dragging his feet for over a year producing documents and the guy who signed off on a bogus FISA warrant? You bet I do.
I don't understand a conservative thinking that Rod Rosenstein, inserting himself into a document request, is good news.
The judge filed over 300 rulings on his current court bend.
That should be sufficient.
I don't understand a conservative thinking that Rod Rosenstein, inserting himself into a document request, is good news.
Because Sessions is not recused from the Kavanaugh nomination.
Sessions either personally ordered it or personally approved it.
Don't make too much of the fact that Rosenstein's name is on the letters to the USAOs leaked to the press.
Sessions is the CO and Rosenstein is like the EO or Operations Officer. His job is to implement an order from Sessions and that is why his name is on those letters.
Sessions has, in my opinion, been a coward as to his recusal and the matters covered thereby.
But in fairness, on the things he is not recused on, Sessions has actually done a pretty good job in my view. Of course, the problem is that what he has recused himself from is far and away the most important matter going on.
I hope on wrong. Time will tell.
Have a good night.
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