• YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    The Biden administration has a literal Trump card to play against the House GOP impeachment inquiry:

    In 2020, Trump’s DOJ issued a binding legal opinion that impeachment inquiries are invalid without an official vote of the House.

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      1 year ago

      Trump’s DOJ issued a binding legal opinion

      These “opinions,” even if they were legally sound to start (which this one wasn’t), are not binding on anybody, especially subsequent administrations. The article is also based on the ludicrously false premise that Republicans expect the rules that apply to them to apply equally to Democrats, and that a precedent favorable to their position must be extended to non-fascists as well. We need look no further than the current head of the DOJ to see that’s not true.