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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on May 21, 2019, 08:38:15 pm
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Trump's Appeal Headed to Court Headed by Merrick Garland
By Brian Freeman | Tuesday, 21 May 2019 02:01 PM
In an ironic twist, President Donald Trump's lawyers appealed a lower court decision ordering that his financial records be released to the House Oversight Committee to the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, headed by Merrick Garland, the New York Post reported Tuesday.
Garland was nominated in 2016 by President Barack Obama to replace deceased Justice Antonin Scalia, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell outraged Democrats by refusing to even schedule a meeting of the Judiciary Committee to consider his nomination.
Following his election victory, Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to replace Scalia, and the Republican-controlled Senate confirmed him.
People had a field day on Twitter pointing out the irony and speculating about the revenge Garland could dish out.
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https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/appeal-financial-records-merrick-garland-scotus/2019/05/21/id/916981/ (https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/appeal-financial-records-merrick-garland-scotus/2019/05/21/id/916981/)
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No worries.... CJ Roberts assured us all that there are no Democrat or Republican judges.... just good judges!! 888mouth
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People had a field day on Twitter pointing out the irony and speculating about the revenge Garland could dish out.
What revenge? Trump played no role in denying Garland his seat on the SCOTUS. That's all on McConnell and the Senate GOP. And on FBI Director Comey, who most likely caused the electorate to swing from Clinton to Trump in the closing weeks.
I think Garland may surprise some folks and give due consideration to Trump's executive privilege claim, in light of a partisan House Committee clearly exercising no oversight other than petty ruination of the man.