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Phil Mattingly ✔ @Phil_Mattingly
.@RandPaul is up now with his question
Phil Mattingly ✔ @Phil_Mattingly
Chief Justice Roberts: The presiding officer declines to read the question as submitted.
1:15 PM - Jan 30, 2020
Fucking Rand Paul trying to out the whistleblower again.
cilla4progress
(24,728 posts)to see through this?
blaze
(6,360 posts)I think he gets it.
MoonlitKnight
(1,584 posts)Did not hand it over to the Parliamentarian like he has with all others.
I assume to keep it out of the record as well.
JohnQFunk
(409 posts)Rand Paul is objectively pro-exposure of whistleblowers.
Rand Paul is objectively in favor of inviting harm on whistleblowers.
Rand Paul is objectively fascist.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,946 posts)Merlot
(9,696 posts)is how he can come out of this smelling like a rose while assisting the republiccans in any way possible.
Such a conundrum for a SCJ!
Scotch-Irish
(464 posts)Go Elizabeth!!!!
Merlot
(9,696 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I mean, it would offend the dignity of the World's Greatest Deliberative Body to call out one of its members as being a pissy-pants coward trying to get somebody killed while courageously cowering behind the Debate or Speech Clause of the Constitution.
Backseat Driver
(4,392 posts)HAB911
(8,890 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)Damn it, Rand. It's shit like this that drove your neighbor to beat your ass!
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)gopiscrap
(23,757 posts)MontanaMama
(23,313 posts)Senator Paul, are you shitting me with this question? I mean, are you shitting me? Sit the fuck down and be quiet.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)If the "man of arms" read the code to inform and avoid getting Paul in jail then that is wrong, they should all know the rules, and anyway, ignorance does not exempt anyone from a crime.
MontanaMama
(23,313 posts)they know that the overriding rule is that the rules do not matter when it comes to the Guardians of Putin. They are lawless...our new America.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)what day?
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)He should be jailed in the basement.
dware
(12,369 posts)What laws did he violate?
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)He should be in session, not out in the hall talking to reporters. I suppose it beats talking in the senate.
He's just such a twerp...similar to Gym Jordan. I could see Jordan doing that, too. Although he's not in the senate.
spanone
(135,829 posts)don't know if this covers 'outing' of a whistleblower....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower_Protection_Act
dware
(12,369 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)But making me cheer for John fucking Roberts ranks high among them
jmg257
(11,996 posts)for the defense to talk about the guy Rand indicated?
What would stop them from just bringing him up in any other argument?
Mersky
(4,980 posts)UTUSN
(70,684 posts)Scalded Nun
(1,236 posts)Asshat Rand willing to have someone else break the law to get his way... does not have the balls to do it himself.
underpants
(182,788 posts)Talk about "trying to impeach him from day one", they tried to delay the inevitable. Obama handled it with class as we all knew he would.