If the Vulgarian attempts to fire Mueller, the Court takes over. He can't do it. Ari brilliant today

[jodymarie aimee]

When Nixon fired Cox, Ralph Nader filed with the Court. Court ruled Nixon broke the law, 30 days later. Ari just showed the old TV reels...So if the Vulgarian does attempt to fire Mueller, the Court takes over. He can't do it.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Which court though?

Which court would hear it?

For instance if the SC justice might prevail and might not, one more appt by the traitor and no way

[jodymarie aimee]

3. and here I was so relieved

for 5 minutes....I better go listen to some Neil Young...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Even if a case like that went to the Supreme Court, they wouldn't necessarily

rule in Trump's favor. Don't forget, the Supreme Court case that ordered Nixon to turn over the secret tapes was a unanimous decision written by Nixon appointee Warren Burger and signed onto by Nixon appointees Blackmun and Powell, all of whom were conservatives. The fourth Nixon appointee, Rehnquist, recused himself because he had worked in the Nixon administration. The Supreme Court justices, even the very conservative ones, are institutionalists and as such are likely to uphold "the system."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. It would be heard by a federal district court (the trial court)

for the District of Columbia. If appealed, it would be heard by a panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and only thereafter by the Supreme Court, unless the Supremes granted a direct appeal.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Do you know the makeup of that court?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Here's a list of the judges:

http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/district-judges

[Eliot Rosewater]

12. Thank you for this, going to study it

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Here's the case.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=4574099556327349485&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr

Mueller was appointed under a different statute, and it's not clear whether a court would rule the same way this time, but so far it's the only case law on point out there.

And it's good to remember that Ralph Nader actually did something useful before he embarked on a career of spoiling elections.

[maxsolomon]

6. You're depending on the SCOTUS not to be nakedly partisan

I no longer have faith that they're capable of that.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. See #7.

[maxsolomon]

10. Right. That's what should guide their decision

Precedent and the Special Prosecutor statute.

But Bush v Gore and their "this case is not a precedent" BS has made me cynical and wary.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Well, yeah. That was one of the worst decisions since Dred Scott.

I don't think I'd ever read a court decision that was so disingenuous and poorly reasoned. And it was a per curiam decision in order to protect the guilty (I suspect Rehnquist).