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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSO...Trump attorney Sekulow confirms what we've know all along about why Trump wants Kavanaugh.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But what if you do if the president does follow your initial recommendation, the recommendation youre leading towards right now, not to sit down for interview. What happens if Mueller then subpoenas the president?
SEKULOW: You have a bite under the constitution, because it really becomes an Article II question. So what would happen is if if, and I say if because we have no basis to know that -- at this point, that a subpoena would be filed.
And by the way, interviews can still happen, there could there could be written questions, theres other ways this can happen. The president may decide at the end hes going to not take his lawyers advice.
I mean thats up to him at the end of the day. Hes the president, he gets to make that decision. Were going to give our advice. But I think look, if you get a subpoena, you file whats called a motion to quash.
That will be argued at the district court then it would go to the court of appeals, then it would go to the Supreme Court of the United States, from the Supreme Court of the United States it goes back to the lower courts again.
So if if the Special Council makes the determination and gets the authority, and thats a question, they have to have the authority to seek that subpoena, a subpoena for live testimony has never been tested in court as to a president of the United States.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-18-jay-sekulow-gov-john-kasich/story?id=57041025
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SO...Trump attorney Sekulow confirms what we've know all along about why Trump wants Kavanaugh. (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Aug 2018
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)1. Christian WH lawyer Sekulow
may be more ____________, __________, than lawyer ghouliani.
Arkansas Granny
(31,534 posts)2. Yes, I caught that, as well. He's counting on that to save him because
he know that collusion took place and regardless what name you want to give it, conspiring with a foreign power to influence our elections is illegal.
triron
(22,024 posts)3. "illegal" puts it mildly
It is a high crime; in this case it amounts to treason. Russia was attacking us despite all the smoke trying to obscure that.