Like he said, impeachment is a political process. Legal protections from criminal prosecution are irrelevant.

The breaking and entering is illegal. The letters are whatever Congress says they are.

No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusionary_rule

And even in a criminal case this would be admissible against Trump because he wouldn't have standing to contest the search as he has no reasonable expectation of privacy in belongings contained in somebody else's house.

its for criminal proceedings and:

are we talking about law enforcement doing the illegal searches, or random hackers outting a bunch of information. because "illegally obtained evidence" is generally referring to violating your constitutional rights against illegal search by the government.

if i break into your house and then find a crap ton of criminally relevant information and give it to the police, that isn't a violation of your 4th amendment rights and that evidence isn't going to be excluded.

also this. i didnt notice the distinction that we were charging a third party based on the search.

Despite the fact that I'm deeply offended and consider it a direct attack on my morals and character, I guess we have to allow it because libs say "****hole" on TV now

Disappointed we apparently didn't do anything more significant and doubly so that I didn't know he was coming but the following made me smile. Anyone know how long he's in Scotland for? would gladly drive up to Aberdeen or wherever just to berate him from a distance

On the surface this seems like pretty dubious, simple-minded nonsense that wouldn't stand up to even a bit of scrutiny, but you typed LAW in ALL CAPS, so now I'm convinced.

What are the chances shrewd Putin throws the 12 people indicted today under the bus and offers them up to Trump at this one on one meeting? It would be a bigboy win for Don.

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0% chance. Trump will repeat that he looked into Putin's eyes and was helpless when Putin said he didn't do it, the investigation is a witch hunt, and we should be better with Russia. Also Crimea has always been Russian.

As a Canadian who's travelled the world in search of the best beers. Portland has the most interesting and best flavours, but England has cask ales which are a completely unexplored style of( beer in the rest of the world)they have been perfecting for centuries which makes you satisfied and doesn't make you fart/burp. Why isn't cask ale a thing everywhere? In Toronto they convert decent beers into cask beers which don't work out, you need to make the beer specifically for Cask. CAMRA for life!

Interesting.

Portland is where I had my first great amber and first real revelation of how good craft beer could be. I've only found one other great amber - in Arvada, Colorado. I'm pretty sure it's all about the water in both places.

New York Times still calling Trump's lies falsehoods

I had a lot of great beers throughout Oregon, but Base Camp in Portland was standard deviations above what one should expect of a craft beer place.

Falsehood is a more accurate term the majority of the time. Most of the dumb **** he says he has no idea whether it's true.

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And risk one of them talking? Probably 0 chance. Plus it'd probably piss a lot of Russians and upper Russian military.

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https://twitter.com/nycjayjay/status...80108601221120

Guardian's headline is "Trump ... tells towering, easily debunked lies"

So my example didn't fully capture my point. I guess a better one would be Trump was illegally wiretapped by the FBI and was overheard saying something that would get him impeached and convicted.

The answer is still the same: the wiretap is illegal. The evidence is whatever Congress says it is.

I recommend reviewing the constitution. It contains all the rules of evidence for impeachment proceedings.

I agree that Trump being found guilty of criminal collusion or election interference are super high odds. But Mueller has so much more than what's publicly available. Trump's been a serial conman, criminal money launderer, and no doubt, tax evader for years with deep ties to Russia.

I'm not a lawyer, but I think it's a matter of exactly what charges are brought and where. He'll snap pardon himself for federal crimes. But it's my understanding he can't pardon himself for state crimes.

The current narrative is that a sitting president cannot be indicted. That remains to be tested in courts. But this **** show goes so deep with so many likely crimes that it will become impossible even for him to function as president. Even though his base will never leave him, there comes a point where projecting onto others, dissing our democratic institutions, and shouting fake news won't cut it anymore.

In the end, I think you're right though. It's going to become a political process that will require continued ratcheting pressure on congress until they have no choice but to call for impeachment. I fear he will not leave peacefully or not without inciting his base to riot in his defense. And even if he does, Pence will immediately pardon him. But it's my hope that he, Don Jr., and Kushner will still be indicted on state criminal charges even if he fulfills his term.

This is such an unprecedented mess, there's just no way to predict how this ends.

This needs to take place in every major American city (baby Trump balloon included) at least once a month with just as big of a turnout.

Let's make it happen!