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A friend of mine who is a criminal defense litigator posted this on facebook. Spoiler tagging because it is quite long but worth a read in my opinion. Would be curious to see what @Brisketexan and other resident legal experts think about his assessment of the situation.

You may end up being right. “You can’t indict a sitting president!” is a canard on par with “NO COLLUSION!” There is no law shielding a president from prosecution for crimes unrelated to his official duties and, in my view (and that of Kenneth Starr), law and policy require that a president not be immune from such prosecution. Congressmen can be indicted. Judges can be indicted. Why could the president not be? How the fuck can someone justify reading absolute legal immunity for the president into the Constitution, when the dudes who wrote the damned thing fought a revolution against that very idea?

Fuck. This thread is a goddamn beating.

By @djrothkopf So we know this, Russian government representatives reached out to the Trump campaign in 2015 and undertook multiple initiatives and had multiple points and series of contacts with Team Trump for the next couple years. It's not just the Trump Tower meeting. It's not just the interactions with Wikileaks. It's not just the Russian ties to Cambridge Analytica. It's not just Konstantin Kiliminik, a Russian agent working hand in hand with campaign chair Paul Manafort. It's not just the ties between Flynn and the Russians. it's not just the links between the Russians and Eric Prince through the meeting in the Seychelles and beyond that. It's not just the ties of Wilbur Ross. It's not just the Trump Organization dealings with Russia. It's not just Jared Kushner's dealings with Russia. It's not just Kushner and Flynn's dealing with Kislyak during the campaign. It's not just the candidate Trump asking for Russian help. It's not just the GRU hacking for which indictments have already taken place. We can go on. But let's not stop before we discuss the many benefits the Russians delivered to Trump via hacking, the dumping of files, the manipulation of social media and other avenues...all to support Trump over Clinton. Nor should we fail to discuss the benefits Trump offered the Russians since he gained power. There was his covering up their hacking and his efforts to slow investigations of it. There was his denying the conclusions of the intelligence community about the Russians. There were the talks between Flynn and the Russians about waiving sanctions. There were the meetings with Trump when he was president when he handed over classified information to the Russians. There were whatever promises or concessions were made in Helsinki. There was a pattern of placating the Russians or failing to enforce sanctions for months and months. In other words, there was plenty of quid and plenty of quo ($50 million penthouse apartments and the promise of big deals or financing benefits aside). From the outreach to Cohen to just the first months of the admin we can count more than a dozen separate avenues of connection at the highest level. In any normal campaign or administration, just one would set off alarm bells and have the president calling the FBI into action. But instead, in addition to those dozen avenues, the offers that were explicitly or tacitly accepted, benefits to both sides & the overt betrayal of the U.S. to advance the political or economic interests of Trump and those close to him, we have the president obstructing justice. Actively obstructing. Threatening to fire all those getting closer to the truth. Lying and lying and lying some more and urging staff to lie and witness tampering and so on. This is not a case of possible collusion. This is sweeping, multi-layered, high level conspiracy led by Vladimir Putin and the Russian intelligence community and involving the active cooperation and complicity of a man who was a candidate for president and then president as well as his entire team. This is the biggest scandal in the history of the American presidency and there is not another that is close to it. But that is not all we know. The DoJ believes the president of the United States directed the commission of campaign finance felonies as a candidate. The NYT produced extensive and compelling evidence of serial tax fraud by the Trump family. The state of NY is investigate fraud in their charities. The House will soon begin investigation of Trump money laundering. A case involving his violation of the Constitution's emoluments clause is under way. In other words, as massive as the Russia scandal is, it might not be the biggest Trump scandal. It might not even be the scandal that brings Trump down. But what we know is that all of these or any of these scandals must bring him down. This criminal has no business being the White House. He has no business walking freely among us. 2019 is going to be the worst year of Donald Trump's life except for all those that will follow it. These cases will be investigated further and then proven. Some may be prosecuted while he is in office. Some may wait until he leaves office. But someday this is already certain, no senior American public official--not Richard Nixon, not Andrew Johnson--will go down in more disgrace or be more reviled by history than Donald Trump. And that is as it should be.

Dad in Germany protecting the border from the red menance in between tours to Vietnam. Go Army - Beat Navy.

They are trying to make Ocassio-Cortez their Hillary 2 Electric BOOgaloo. The GOP has to have their scary boogey(wo)man to keep pointing at lest the old, feeble and dumb start to look at who they are voting for.

My old man was a PFC USMC Wake Island defender at the outbreak of WWII. Captured Dec 22, 1941 ... spent the duration in several Japanese prison camps. I'm damn LUCKY to be here.

For ants?

Dear Baptist cunts, You fucking hypocrites need to lick my ball sack and chug my ass gravy. Your existence makes the world a worse place. Fucking die you fucking fucks.

Except maybe head coach. Good thing no head coaches have ever bailed on a bowl game to prepare for a new job, or this place would have blown up with outrage.

Shot: Chaser:

Those shitberries are going on and on about Texas not being part of the South as if that is an insult. Texas is a region and culture unto itself. We do not belong to any region, we are a fucking region with more money, piss and swagger than any cluster of states combined.

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Get ready for some good posts, Carter just got Fong'd to Bama'.

If we win the next 22 league games we’ll be champs.

I think that means that 42% are racists. And 9% are racist soybean farmers

Yesterday was a good day.

I've been trying to stress this for years. Texas is NOT a part of the Deep South culture. We're our own thing; the Deep South sucks donkey dick.

I like the idea of people who aren’t trust fund babies being able to do things like intern for representatives.

Just got home from Southlake - Duncanville. A few observations: Mickens - Played exclusively at WR for at least the 2nd game in a row. I have seen Southlake several times this year and he has played very little safety. Slot corner when he has played on defense but primarily has played WR. Talk on the Southake side is that he has a bit of a shoulder ding but hard to evaluate as a DB since he barely played there Thompson the 2020 safety from Duncanville is a 17 year old grown ass man. Looked to be about 6'2" and 210. Plays primarily near the LOS as almost a LB. Damn near killed the Southlake RB TJ McDaniel {pretty decent HS RB going to SMU} in the 1st half. I love HS stars who cover kicks and he ran down on every Duncanville kickoff. Jackson the 2020 QB for Duncanville is a guy you want to have the ball in his hands. The few times Southlake got Duncanville behind the sticks everybody in the building knew he would make a play. He really did a good job of not forcing throws when Southlake covered receivers. Several times he made throws on the run after breaking the pocket. Southlake was so concerned about him running they dropped coverage when he left the pocket and left receivers wide open down the field. He would be an ideal QB prospect if we want to continue the Ohio Sate power run game offense As noted above this was the 1st time this year Southlake played somebody with elite athletes. And Duncanville has them in waves. Southlake is the epitome of the maxed out Texas high school kids. They ran into an athletic well coached buzz saw today and got destroyed.

Frito pie on a tortilla. Tapatio on top instead of Japs cuz lazy.

It's a little disappointing that this didn't happen on actual signing day, but it won't stop my schadenfreude cup from running over. Poor aggy.

Fuck that little cocksucker. I hope he has a career ending injury and has to work in a fucking office.

Guess aggies gonna claim part of this year's heisman that Kyler just won

The Kushner stuff has been out there for a long time now. Like foreign govts targeting him as being malleable and naive, endless revisions of his SF-86, reading the PDB without proper clearance, etc. It's just so troubling. Complete disregard for the rule of law and for ethical norms.

I still get that feeling before this game. It is hard to explain if you haven’t been there. It going to be a challenge. Go Navy! Beat Army!

I live in Lubbock and the local Tech sports station had a 24/7 recruiting guy (didn't catch his name) to update on the possible recruits for Tech, chances they can bring back some recruits that decommited when they hired Wells, etc... They discussed Powell at the end. The guest confirmed his Permian coaches are very pro-Tech, but at this time, he didn't hear anything that would lead him to believe he was going to back out of the UT commitment. I know that could change, but that's what they believe here in Lubbock as of today.

Need the panties to come off: Billecart Salmon Brut Rose

Trump is so amoral, the only bottom he knows is Mike Pence.

I was pretty horrified at his election, but, based on my 64 years' experience, I thought the office requirements would bring some normalcy to his behavior. I was as wrong as could be on that front, and also underestimated the sheer mendacity of the dude, even after seeing his campaign antics. So, yes, we all should have seen this coming, but sure as hell didn't. Still, that 40%. They will vote for anybody to fullfill their manipulated resentment.

The Menendez brothers were captured in the crowd on a Mark Jackson basketball card during the period after they murdered their parents and before they were arrested late in May of 1990.

It’s a shitty thing to do to the university that got you where you are, not to mention fucking over every single one of your teammates.

Lulz. Fuck you Republicans. Fuck. You.

Blah blah blah. TOTALLY CLEARS THE PRESIDENT! Suck it libtard! Signed, the US Senate.

That is a lot of words

USAA or GTFO. Hope we get Cain.

BOOYAH. Found my Unicorn. THH Baby.

I may be in the minority here, but I think we should avoid posting family pics of non-public figures, even if one of the parents is a proven aggie rube.

Was Navy all my life because of ancestors but am now Army because of my kid: