| ▲ | s1artibartfast 4 days ago |
| He Was Obamas nominee for SCOTUS, Bidens selection for AG, and has been held in contempt by the republican House. |
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| ▲ | NewJazz 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| He was Obama's nominee because Obama knew the Senate would only approve a conservative nominee. |
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| ▲ | s1artibartfast 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Strange that the Republican house didn't nominate him given that he's such a fervent Republican. | | |
| ▲ | NewJazz 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Senate, and he isn't fervent and maybe that was the issue. Or perhaps it was just about the principal of the matter. |
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| ▲ | curt15 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | He was also previously recommended by Mitch McConnell. |
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| ▲ | lolinder 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It sounds like the main reason to call him effectively a Republican is that he hasn't chosen to prosecute Trump, which is a lousy argument. Plenty of rational Democrats have been saying all along that prosecuting him would be counterproductive, as it turned out it was in the event. "I'm voting for the felon" was a rallying cry in the Midwest. At least the fact that he got a state-level conviction means the felony will stick. Had he been convicted of a felony at the federal level he'd have won anyway and just pardoned himself. |
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| ▲ | skissane 4 days ago | parent [-] | | > At least the fact that he got a state-level conviction means the felony will stick. That’s far from guaranteed. He has multiple grounds to appeal that conviction both through the New York state courts - and if they don’t overturn it, then the federal courts. If it makes it to SCOTUS, odds are high the conservative majority will be looking for some federal law grounds to overturn it. But it might not ever make it that far. Legal commentators all along have been saying the prosecution’s legal theory is rather novel, and maybe the state appellate courts decide it is a novelty they don’t like. Plus, the way it uses allegations of uncharged federal crimes to upgrade a state misdemeanour to a state felony gives the federal courts an easy way to overturn it, by deciding the state courts have misconstrued the scope of those uncharged federal crimes. |
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