A lawyer for President Donald Trump on Monday signaled that he will seek to dismiss a lawsuit filed against Trump in New York, arguing that the President is immune to lawsuits filed against him in state court.
Trump is looking to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed in New York state Supreme Court by Summer Zervos, a past contestant on Trump's reality television show, "The Apprentice." Zervos filed the lawsuit in January, after Trump denied her allegations that he kissed and groped her inappropriately in 2007 at a hotel in Los Angeles.
In a filing submitted on Monday, Trump's lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, argued that "the United States Constitution, including the Supremacy Clause contained therein, immunizes the President from being sued in state court while in office." He noted that in Clinton v. Jones, which established that Presidents are not immune from federal lawsuits over actions they took before taking office, the U.S. Supreme Court did not decide whether the President could be sued in state court.
Apparently this judge is asking the state supreme court to rule on whether Trump has immunity from this lawsuit based on the fact the Russians made him our president.
Just to be clear we have a president in office who is not only being investigated by the FBI for collusion with Russia to steal our democracy, but is also being sued for sexual assault.
Damn, aren't we proud?
It's all a bad dream. On NPR yesterday, one of the commentators could hardly say "President Trump". It came out funny, long & drawn out as if she was reading her notes wrong. A bad, bad dream.
ReplyDeleteThe real-live POTUS whose name most closely resembled Tr*mp's was President Truman... Can you imagine the leader whose desk bore the sign "The Buck Stops Here" judging women lewdly and publicly by their looks, or grabbing their private parts without consent?
DeleteOh yeah, and Harry S Truman adored his wife and daughter in wholesome and believable ways. Harry 'n Bess once ardently broke the slats on the marital First Bed! They were red-faced; the White House staff found the whispered request for repairs... adorable.
Droit du seigneur, anybody?
ReplyDeleteThe revised Constitution will give him and future presidents that right automatically.
DeleteOT? Break Law?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/29/ex-writer-breitbart-broke-the-law.html
Undoubtedly, but it's the second article that interested me:
DeleteDevin Nunes Could Be Facing an Ethics Probe for Spilling Secrets
House rules compel Congress to ‘investigate any unauthorized disclosure of intelligence.’ That’s what the intel chair seems to have done when he talked about Team Trump and foreign surveillance.
By the end of the day Tuesday, Rep. Walter Jones, a contrarian Republican, became the first member of Nunes’ party to call for his recusal in the Russia investigation. And an article in the conservative National Review said that Nunes should step down as chairman of the intelligence committee.
Meanwhile, Nunes’s intelligence committee is in total disarray. Committee members told The Daily Beast that all their business has been indefinitely cancelled—whether it relates to the committee’s investigation into Russia or not.
“The committee has been frozen. We oversee an $80 billion operation. Our intelligence community is out there doing things that need oversight, let’s just put it that way,” said Rep. Jim Himes, a member of the House Intelligence Committee. “And we have been completely shut down. This week we’re not even doing our regular meetings.”
Rep. Eric Swalwell said he spoke to Nunes Tuesday and asked for a roundtable meeting with the members to clear the air. He said he didn’t think it would happen.
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Stonewalling can't long forever, or will it? We are in uncharted waters, boys and girls.
American has suffered a Moral 9/11.
new Gallup Poll has prezzie approval rating at 35%.
ReplyDeleteI'm waiting for negative percentages. Nothing less.
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/ivanka-trump-will-take-up-coding-with-daughter/
DNA coding? Why? Is there questions about who the daddy is?
DeleteOr wishing their percentage is? Nope they are NY mutts!
DeleteSexual ASSault like this?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/29/texas-football-players-accused-of-sodomizing-teammates-with-coke-bottles-and-bats.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/29/trump-s-personal-lawyer-wants-to-grab-republicans-by-the-wallet.html
ReplyDelete"Trump lawyer Michael Cohen says the president’s greatness convinced him to register as a Republican THIS month "
Check Out These Odd Clips Of President Trump Behaving Very Strangely (VIDEO)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bipartisanreport.com/2017/03/28/check-out-these-odd-clips-of-president-trump-behaving-very-strangely-video/
"President Donald Trump is one fidgety guy."
Delete""There's no place I'd rather be than here with you," she told the gathering, adding, "other than the White House.""
ReplyDeletehttp://www.npr.org/2017/03/29/521908907/hillary-clinton-faults-trump-on-health-care-and-lack-of-women-appointees?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170329
I can think of a few places she would rather be... She'd like to be back in the woods. Or at another paid GoldmanSachs gig. Or maybe another WallStreet paid speech. Or addressing some Irish WOmens Lucheon, paid for and all... Or just tweeting.
Delete"... The callousness with which the GOP Congress contemplated stripping away the health care of 24 million poor, sick and older people reflects an underlying eugenicist view within Trump and Bannon's camp that the lives of the rich and powerful matter more and are the only ones worth protecting because they believe the rich are genetically superior to the poor. ..." - William Rivers Pitt
ReplyDeletehttp://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40029-the-ahca-mass-murder-in-broad-daylight
I agree. And they did not find out the whys. Today we know why PBMs! That is whom the gop should go after. Tax them to the max! Goo.
DeleteNorth Dakota, who knew they were better than obms. Wow good reporting prospect.org
DeleteNo. It doesn't.
ReplyDeleteYou'd think a man that claimed to have as much money as he does could hire better lawyers.
But he probably just hires ones that agree with him. Not a smart policy when it comes to the law. So he's not a "very smart person, the smartest person ever."
But then, we knew that.
If the woman in the photo is the one whom Trump allegedly (as in probably) assaulted, I think she looks much like Ivanka will in another fifteen years. Coincidence.
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Well there is always after he is prezdunce. 71 in prison! Get on with it ladies!
ReplyDeleteNot that it changes the heart of the issue -- which is that presidents can be sued for actions they take as private citizens — but he's being sued for defamation, not for sexual assault.
ReplyDeletePbms are just like those businesses that hire illegals. But no one at all goes after businesses. Corruption.
ReplyDeleteOT"Breitbart is a pimple on our ass."
ReplyDeletehttp://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/03/young-turks-becoming-breitbart-left
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/03/29/fox-news-sued-racial-discrimination-conservative-network-sinks.html
ReplyDelete"LGBT people are used to feeling that they do not count—and the census controversy shows what that means all too literally and practically."
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/29/this-is-why-the-erasing-of-lgbt-americans-on-the-2020-census-matters.html?via=desktop&source=facebook