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The jig is up: Conservative warns Trump officials that courts give them no choice but to testify
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/the-jig-is-up-conservative-warns-trump-officials-that-courts-give-them-no-choice-but-to-testify/
Published 4 hours ago on December 31, 2019
On Tuesday, Never Trump conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin blasted senior Trump officials in the Washington Post, warning them that the jig is up and they have no legitimate excuse not to testify about the president in the Senate trial.
On Monday, a federal judge dismissed a case brought by Charles Kupperman, a former deputy national security adviser, asserting an absolute immunity to protect him from testifying, wrote Rubin. That leaves a ruling by Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson rejecting in scathing terms a similar claim of absolute immunity in a case involving former White House counsel Donald McGahn as the final word, for now, on current and former executive branch employees testimony.
Now that the courts have made this decision, Rubin argued, officials like former National Security Adviser John Bolton and White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney must testify in the Senate.
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Bolton can no longer rely on the Kupperman case, and the relevant precedent is now the McGahn case, wrote Rubin. Coupled with the blockbuster New York Times story revealing the behind-the-scenes efforts of senior officials including Bolton to release aid to Ukraine that President Trump illegally withheld to gain leverage and force an announcement from Ukraine of an investigation of former vice president Joe Biden, removal of Boltons last excuse (i.e., awaiting a Kupperman ruling) now requires both houses of Congress to proceed to get to the bottom of this.....................................
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)the final word, for now simply means that the next one can start over at the district court level.
The fact of the matter is that Bolton has not been subpoenaed.
This is the third to-round for this odd notion that dismissal of the Kupperman case somehow requires Bolton to testify.
C_U_L8R
(44,998 posts)Do Republicans instinctively reach for a horrifically racist term at any occasion?
(on edit; yes there are multiple origins of the phrase but you'd think they'd be slightly aware of the implications, geez)
padfun
(1,786 posts)But one site did mention that is was a slang.
Some of us never heard that term in any racial way.
To me, a jig or jigs were used in machine shops.
It might be area specific as I have been in the west my entire life. I never heard that used in any way but tools and in that saying.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Let's hope "N" dies the same death.
Not all connotations of the' jig is up' were bad. Most were gangsters and cops when the plan was blown.
Stinky The Clown
(67,790 posts)For your consideration:
https://knowyourphrase.com/jig-is-up
Happy Hoosier
(7,285 posts)Thee phrase pre-dates English Colonies in the Americas.
Maraya1969
(22,478 posts)bitterross
(4,066 posts)As they should. The SCOTUS needs to settle this question once and for all.
Let's hope they keep in mind that it will not always be a Republican in the Oval Office. So they actually rule fairly.
ooky
(8,922 posts)of impeachment. Should carry us into next year.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)Wants them bucks for suffering through Dump.
rainin
(3,011 posts)Can's relevant committees call them in for oversight purposes?
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)Danascot
(4,690 posts)reminding the recipient that penalties for defying a subpoena is imprisonment for up to 5 years and/or fines.