(17-09-2019 21:45 )Rammyrascal Wrote: [ -> ]Bet there will be loads of trump gags
He's a Comedian's dream, he writes most of their material for them. All they need to do is copy it from Twitter and translate it into English.
President Donald Trump’s efforts to keep his tax returns private played out on both coasts Thursday, with a California judge handing him an initial victory and his lawyers in New York City arguing that federal prosecutors there are trying “to harrass” him by seeking the documents.
On the West Coast, a federal judge in Sacramento granted the Trump campaign’s request to block a new California law that requires presidential candidates to release five years of tax returns to run in the state’s March 2020 primaries. State officials are deciding whether to appeal.
The ruling came hours after the president sued to block New York prosecutors from their push to obtain his returns as part of a criminal investigation into payments made to two women who claimed to have affairs with Trump.
Trump’s attorneys filed a lawsuit against Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr., who recently subpoenaed the president’s accounting firm for eight years of his state and federal returns as part of an investigation into payments made to two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.
They called the subpoena a “bad faith effort to harass” Trump and said Vance, a Democrat, had overstepped his constitutional authority.
“Virtually ‘all legal commenters agree’ that a sitting President of the United States is not ‘subject to the criminal process’ while he is in office,” Trump’s lawyers wrote. “Yet a county prosecutor in New York, for what appears to be the first time in our nation’s history, is attempting to do just that.
The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court, asks U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero to declare the subpoena unenforceable until Trump leaves office.
Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow said the lawsuit is intended “to address the significant constitutional issues at stake in this case.”
A spokesman for Vance said his office had received the lawsuit “and will respond as appropriate in court.” Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, declined to comment.
The lawsuit marks Trump’s latest attempt to prevent his tax returns from being seen by Democratic investigators and comes as his campaign is fighting a new law in California requiring presidential candidates to release five years of tax returns as a condition of appearing on the state’s March 2020 primary ballot.
Meanwhile, Democratic-led congressional committees are also trying to obtain Trump’s tax returns and other records that could provide a window into his finances. Trump and three of his children filed a lawsuit in April seeking to block two House committees from getting records that his longtime lender, Deutsche Bank, has said include tax returns.
And in July, the president sued to block a new New York law that could allow a House committee to obtain his state tax returns.
I don't think we've seen the last of this. I think when he goes on the campaign trail, pretty much nearly every appearance he makes, he'll be asked about his.
SO Pelosi has finally opened an impeachment investigation?
It has been a long time coming..
Pelosi is coming for you Mr President, and I'd rather much hope the noose is tightening on Trump's balls rather than his neck...
The US Democratic Party has begun a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump over allegations that he pressured a foreign power to damage a political rival.
Top Democrat Nancy Pelosi said the president "must be held accountable".
Mr Trump has denied wrongdoing and called the efforts a "witch hunt".
There is strong support from House Democrats for impeachment, but the proceedings would be unlikely to pass the Republican-controlled Senate.
The high-stakes move by House Speaker Ms Pelosi, prompted by allegations that Mr Trump pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate his leading political rival Joe Biden, lays the groundwork for a bitter and potentially hugely consequential confrontation between Democrats and the president ahead of the 2020 election.
If the inquiry moves forward the House of Representatives will vote on any charges and, with the Democrats in the majority, the vote would likely be carried - making Mr Trump the third president in US history to have been impeached.
But the proceedings would likely then stall in the Senate, where the president's Republican Party holds enough seats to prevent him from being removed from office by a two-thirds majority.
Ms Pelosi did not provide any timeline for how the process might play out.
I would say the Senate would be as far Pelosi would get and I would think no Republican Senator would even dare stand against the President on this and allow it through the Senate.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49814927
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(25-09-2019 20:53 )southsidestu Wrote: [ -> ]Also question for my fellow left leaning forum members, am I the only one that has a real thing for hot right wing chicks? It's like the taboo or something
I agree, Tomi Lahren and Megyn Kelly comes to mind, Tomi is especially bat shit crazy but yeah still hot