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7b5c79d9... 2y ago

I'll try again to respond to this politico piece:

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/12/trump-doj-assist-biden-impeachment-probe-00115393

First, some background.

The House issued a subpoena to Donald Trump in 2019 in as part of the first Impeachment inquiry.

Trump and his advisors made up a rule: The committee could not subpoena him without a full house vote.

Pelosi said that was nonsense. No full house vote was needed before the committee could issue subpoenas.

Pelosi, of course, was right. . .

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7b5c79d9... 2y ago

The executive branch cannot dictate rules to the House.

The president cannot invent rules that allow him to decide when to comply with subpoenas.

Also recall that we were all properly horrified by how Trump had politicized the DOJ by taking over and giving it orders.

For me, by the way, this was one of the creepier moments in the Trump administration. Autocrats control prosecutors. Our system creates prosecutorial independence.

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