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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Sun Aug 5, 2018, 01:15 PM Aug 2018

SO...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 you’re 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, there’s other ways this can happen. The president may decide at the end he’s going to not take his lawyers’ advice.

I mean that’s up to him at the end of the day. He’s the president, he gets to make that decision. We’re going to give our advice. But I think look, if you get a subpoena, you file what’s 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 that’s 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 OP
Christian WH lawyer Sekulow empedocles Aug 2018 #1
Yes, I caught that, as well. He's counting on that to save him because Arkansas Granny Aug 2018 #2
"illegal" puts it mildly triron Aug 2018 #3

Arkansas Granny

(31,534 posts)
2. Yes, I caught that, as well. He's counting on that to save him because
Sun Aug 5, 2018, 01:34 PM
Aug 2018

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
Sun Aug 5, 2018, 01:39 PM
Aug 2018

It is a high crime; in this case it amounts to treason. Russia was attacking us despite all the smoke trying to obscure that.

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