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spanone

(142,052 posts)
2. So dersh, what are you trying to tell us?
Sat Jan 18, 2020, 04:37 PM
Jan 2020

trump wants to give vlad Alaska and it's okay?

wishstar

(5,837 posts)
5. But what if Congress has passed relevant legislation that President goes against?
Sat Jan 18, 2020, 04:43 PM
Jan 2020

President cannot ignore Congress and act like a dictator without being subject to impeachment for abuse of power.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
6. Except that impeachment is not so much a legal process as a political one...
Sat Jan 18, 2020, 04:43 PM
Jan 2020

And we bought it fair & square, if at a bargain discount, from a broke Tsar.



 

Scotch-Irish

(464 posts)
7. I only WISH that Alaska was all that tRump gave russia; he gave russia the entire USA
Sat Jan 18, 2020, 04:44 PM
Jan 2020

Hell, they're even here with us in the underground, in every state in the union.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
12. You gotta admit
Sat Jan 18, 2020, 07:34 PM
Jan 2020

Alaskans voted for lardass, it would be their just reward.
The farmers haven’t learned yet, the coal miners haven’t figured it out yet, etc etc

SWBTATTReg

(26,399 posts)
8. I thought we purchased Alaska...it wasn't an illegal seizure or something like that by the US at ...
Sat Jan 18, 2020, 04:55 PM
Jan 2020

the time. Dershowitz is an idiot too. Figures he's one of the lawyers representing rump. Only idiots to the chase, eh? I feel that they are not going to succeed too much, being if this is the caliber of people rump has got on his legal team (and the pitfalls that rump won't listen to his legal team anyways, he hasn't before). I hope the idiot puts himself into prison with his stupidity and idiotic mouth. I wouldn't be surprised if he did something of the sort.

Purrfessor

(1,190 posts)
9. Dershowitz would change his opinion if a Democratic President.,,
Sat Jan 18, 2020, 06:31 PM
Jan 2020

Baker Acted 4 million Florida Republicans 3 days before a presidential election. You can count on it.

Purrfessor

(1,190 posts)
15. Had them institutionalized for a psychiatric evaluation preventing them..,
Sat Jan 18, 2020, 07:54 PM
Jan 2020

from voting in the election. Far fetched I know but the point is Dershowitz would not stand for it. Dershowitz says abuse of power is not an impeachable offense.

kairos12

(13,705 posts)
14. What do you expect from a pal of
Sat Jan 18, 2020, 07:53 PM
Jan 2020

Epstein.

Pervert.

Pervert of Constitutional Law.

No surprising, however appalling.

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