Bipartisan senators unveil compromise special counsel bill
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/bipartisan-senators-expected-to-release-compromise-special-counsel-bill/2018/04/11/bfb24852-3d3f-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html
A bipartisan quartet of senators released long-awaited compromise legislation Wednesday to prevent the undue firing of special counsels like Robert S. Mueller III, as the bill’s authors claimed Republican leaders were warming to the idea of letting the measure come to a vote.
Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.), Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) announced they had completed legislation that would delay any order to fire a special counsel by 10 days, giving that counsel a window to appeal the decision to a panel of three federal judges.
The bill further stipulates that during the 10-day period, no documents or materials related to the counsel’s investigation could be destroyed or staffing changes made.
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Its fate now rests largely in the hands of Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), who must decide whether he will put the bill through the formal congressional vetting process.
Time to put your money where your mouth is and prove you're a real American patriot, Chuck. And McConnell better not even dare oppose this measure with "there's no reason to believe Trump'll do it" excuses.
Well, it's certainly better than nothing, but if this goes through I still hope it paves the way for full protection for Mueller.
C'mon, already. Let's build our own wall around Mueller -- and make Trump pay for it.
Couldn't we just... build a wall around Trump? And his staff? Seems better solution to me.
oh it's up to chuck grassly? fat chance this goes anywhere then
if you check the article in op, they've updated it. Grassley's moving to have it put to vote next Thursday
There are already walls somewhere waiting for him. Just have to put him inside them when the investigation is done.
i can't wait to finally have a definitive list of which american senators actually give a modicum of a shit about this country
any senator who votes no on protecting mueller is a senator who would willingly allow mass scale corruption go unchecked
The Shite House?
https://twitter.com/stonecold2050/status/984197011963494400
https://twitter.com/DHeyerman/status/984198692457426945
So we might want to tread cautiously about this.
its ultimately up to mitch mconnel and weeeeelllllll.....
Why are they not allowed to review parts of bills that they have to vote on? I don't understand.
the bill contains a section that they haven’t been able to review yet, and that it could potentially endanger the investigation.
My concern is that they need to very carefully review this bastard. No partying yet.
If this is true and they DID put a trojan horse up to vote, they need to be fucking removed from congress RIGHT FUCKING NOW. Shit like that is so fucking disrespectful to democracy that even suggesting such a tactic should be grounds for immediate dismissal with a replacement decided by special election.
It makes my fucking stomach turn that it's even considered to be a possibility with this bill. I already HATE riders and similar tactics but this is the fucking peak of the scummery that the GOP has done if true. Has anything like this been proposed before?
Imagine if a bill called "The Cannabis Legalization Act" gets proposed, and a hidden subsection that's one line long that says "Upon which this bill takes effect, it shall expire 1 minute after being enacted" is at the bottom, how fucking shitty would that be? This is 10000X worse.
Bills that say they do one thing and then in the fine print do exactly the opposite have been done before, but the stakes were never "literally the practical concept of the rule of law as it is practiced in the United States of America, a functioning democracy".
Republicans are masters of putting sneaky shit into bills that doesn't belong there and gaming the system to their advantage. From riders that have nothing to do with the initial bill, to hastily written bathroom scrawl you conveniently don't get to look at before a vote, it doesn't surprise me that even in this "bipartisan" effort they are being shady as fuck and are essentially embodying the big kids from Recess in what's supposed to be an effort to not only run our country, but prevent our country from being illegally run into the ground. I've never despised a group of people more after than my life's experiences with them.
Assuming no bamboozle, this would make me breathe a small sigh of relief. This kind of thing would be a no brainer for anyone that isn't corrupt.
idk i think it’s a bit of a stretch to think there could be a secret and really bad section on here. This is a bipartisan written bill with two democrats working on it. I would like to think they would’ve notified something like that lol.
IIRC the additions are taken from the House version of the bill that didn't go anywhere. One of these additions has not been reviewed, and no one knows what's in it. This, by itself, is not anything to pull the fire alarm over.
Since Trump took office, Republicans have made a distinct habit of writing bills in closed-door committee and not allowing anyone time to even read the bill before it's passed. It's become their primary method of generating bills intended to be rammed through filibuster-proof simple Senate majories via conciliation weasling. They did it most recently with the giant tax cut bill and it was so hastily written that they fucked up several things entirely and had to pass legislation to correct the mistakes and oversights.
In that context, it's definitely a point to be concerned about until we know for sure that it is benign or at least ordinary business. Republicans in the Senate have been vocally supportive of Mueller but totally hesitant to actually do anything about it; House Republicans have, some of them, been openly calling for Mueller to be shut down or straight up investigated for supposedly orchestrating a slow coup against the "rightful" President Trump because Democrats (Mueller is a Republican but who cares) are salty they didn't win. It's still not time to pull the fire alarm, but it's also too early to relax and consider Mueller even slightly safe.
Nah, they call it "The Big House". Trump's gonna LOVE it there because it has "Big" in the name, with a capital "B" no less!
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