JohnStOnge wrote:There's no way you're going to be able to say that a bunch of Senators writing a letter are doing so without the authority of the United States. Plus as others have indicated we've had a number of situations in the past when members of Congress have spoken directly to foreign leaders.
Plus the DOJ would have to argue that they were prosecuting official members of the US government for just correctly describing the situation.
∞∞∞ wrote:I think the DOJ has already said they won't pursue it (which is the correct call IMO). Only one person has ever been convicted thanks to the Logan Act...and it was in the early 1800s. I think it'd be incredibly tough to convict anyone under it today.
I don't know if it has anything to do with how hard it is to get a conviction.
The problem IMO is if you let this dog off the leash you or your party will eventually get bitten by it.
They're either too stupid to realize it of else smart enough to realize that their brand is out of fashion and their candidates so out-of-step with America that they are extremely unlikely to adorn the White House for quite some time.
If these clowns all of a sudden want treaties and shit they should be making that case to we the voters, not to the Iranians.
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Pwns wrote:
I don't know if it has anything to do with how hard it is to get a conviction.
The problem IMO is if you let this dog off the leash you or your party will eventually get bitten by it.
They're either too stupid to realize it of else smart enough to realize that their brand is out of fashion and their candidates so out-of-step with America that they are extremely unlikely to adorn the White House for quite some time.
If these clowns all of a sudden want treaties and **** they should be making that case to we the voters, not to the Iranians.
Why involve the voters at all when you can just sign an executive order and be done with it?
houndawg wrote:
They're either too stupid to realize it of else smart enough to realize that their brand is out of fashion and their candidates so out-of-step with America that they are extremely unlikely to adorn the White House for quite some time.
If these clowns all of a sudden want treaties and **** they should be making that case to we the voters, not to the Iranians.
Why involve the voters at all when you can just sign an executive order and be done with it?
We'll always have that arrow in the rebuttal quiver thanks to our Constitutional Scholar who currently occupies the WH.
Gobama!
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houndawg wrote:
They're either too stupid to realize it of else smart enough to realize that their brand is out of fashion and their candidates so out-of-step with America that they are extremely unlikely to adorn the White House for quite some time.
If these clowns all of a sudden want treaties and **** they should be making that case to we the voters, not to the Iranians.
Why involve the voters at all when you can just sign an executive order and be done with it?
Who needs Congressional approval to go to war anyway?
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