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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums*****BREAKING******Justice Department Won't Release Forms On Sessions' Russian Contact
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*****BREAKING******Justice Department Won't Release Forms On Sessions' Russian Contact (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Jul 2017
OP
File a FOIA. Sessions has zero privilege and those forms are public documents
alcibiades_mystery
Jul 2017
#3
It's certainly testing their plans to the very limit. If America can come through this, and
OnDoutside
Jul 2017
#10
Zoonart
(14,466 posts)1. YUP!
He's up to his eyeballs in this.
spanone
(141,615 posts)2. drip, drip, drip....
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)3. File a FOIA. Sessions has zero privilege and those forms are public documents
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)5. A Foia WAS filed. DOJ refuses to release it...
... despite a court order.
C_U_L8R
(49,384 posts)6. Contemptuous
DemocratSinceBirth
(101,852 posts)7. You have a war within the executive branch.
gademocrat7
(11,940 posts)4. Complicit elf.
Hokie
(4,366 posts)8. This is directly defying a court order
The plaintiffs can go back and ask for a contempt ruling.
superpatriotman
(6,870 posts)9. I fear the founding fathers did not plan for people like this
being in charge of the republic
OnDoutside
(20,868 posts)10. It's certainly testing their plans to the very limit. If America can come through this, and
strengthen their democratic structures to bring them up to modern day requirements, then the pain and heartache will have been worth it.
thucythucy
(9,103 posts)11. The founding fathers helped bring this into being
by sticking us with the idiotic electoral college.
Neither Bush II nor Trump won their elections. The people, in their judgment, chose the better candidate, but a couple of hundred "electors" defied the clear intent of the voters.
Archaic, elitist, anti-democratic, this holdover from the 18th century has to go.
Orrex
(67,111 posts)12. Thank God no one received a consensual blowjob out of all this
kentuck
(115,406 posts)13. I wonder if it was the"Russian lawyer"?
I would not be surprised.