Monica Kwasnik

Sen. Wyden has championed that issue. He plans to introduce a new bill to force the Treasury to release those documents.

I just hope this one wraps up before the other court declares her appointment unlawful because I am dying to see this judge tear her a new one when he dismisses the case.

This whole saga is absolutely bonkers! Every time we think the prosecutors couldn’t have bungled this any worse, we learn something new about how they did, indeed, f*&% it up even worse.

We all expected a shitshow, but who could have predicted THIS level of incompetence?!

The Mueller Report wasn’t bullshit. What Barr told us it said was bullshit.

The DOJ just opened a new investigation.

He changed his tune only a few days after trying to pressure Boebert to remove her name from the petition and the day after he called MTG a traitor. There’s no way his incompetent DOJ scrubbed the files overnight.

Eh, sincerity is doubtful. She’s just a conspiracy theorist who refuses to back down.

That’s very kind of her. When I say that to writers, it’s not love that is in my heart.

But hopefully he just signs the darn thing promptly, avoiding all that extra drama.

You’re posting screenshots that reinforce what I’m saying? What you said was that there would be no need for Congress to override a veto on this bill. (Not true.) Now you’re merely pointing out that Congress passed it by more than two-thirds. (True.)

That’s essentially what the comment you responded to with “no need, it’s already done” said.

“Congress has the votes to override a veto” is not the same as “Congress doesn’t need to override a veto because it’s a done deal.”

If Trump vetoes, he sends it back to Congress with his objections, and the House and Senate will need to vote to override it. It’s always possible that, after hearing the president’s objections, some lawmakers who originally voted yes could vote against overturning the veto.

Trump would be insane to veto it, effectively sending it back to Congress for another vote. But that doesn’t mean he can’t. That quote from Johnson came AFTER the Senate passed it unanimously.

The comment said that if Trump vetoes it, Congress can override it. You said it’s already done, implying that Trump can’t veto it. But he can. I assume the context you’re *rudely* referring to is the fact that it passed both chambers by more than 2/3. That doesn’t automatically prevent a veto.

It still goes to Trump. And he’s allowed to veto it. It would make no sense for him to do that because Congress has the votes to override a veto, but I don’t presume to know that goes on in Trump’s head.

Maybe. But he might be merely Trump’s puppet.

He hadn’t signed it yet.

I assumed it was a typo. I think they meant it would be a bad move for them NOT to override a veto. But it would be a bad move for Trump to veto it in the first place.

One would assume the government has a good deal of evidence that was never in Epstein’s possession.

Satisfying, until you encounter the pesky price tag that refuses to come off in one piece. You pick at a corner. Tear a small piece off one side. Another corner. Finally, you loosen an entire edge! You’re about to do it! You’re about to smoothly peel off the … doh!

I don’t think it matters whether it was passed by voters or legislators. If Texas had sent its map to voters and voters approved it, it wouldn’t change the fact that it was racially gerrymandered. It would still be unlawful.

CA’s is partisan gerrymandering. DOJ’s suit claims it’s racial though.

Ultimately, the Epstein estate was complying with the House committee’s subpoena. But I agree that making those files public draws attention to the fact that we are still missing a lot of information.

The fact that these files could even include intelligence material — that Epstein was involved in issues of national security — is what is harmful.

I’m sure Johnson was equally concerned about national security when Trump stole sensitive govt documents and stashed them in a Mar-a-Lago bathroom.

Good point. I think people are just increasingly cautious because optimism has burned us so many times. There are legitimate fears that Trump will try to taint elections, so we can’t take fair elections for granted. And there are legitimate fears that Trump will escape accountability — again.

“Try” being a key word. It took them something like three weeks to select Johnson after ousting McCarthy, who required 15 rounds of voting to get elected in the first place.

Many of them were probably destroyed upon arriving at Mar-a-Lago in 2021. But I agree with you. If the rest had been scrubbed, how do we explain Trump’s panic over this bill? There’s no way his incompetent DOJ could scrub these files quickly and efficiently.

Indian or American?

Vetoing isn’t a viable option because the bill has the support of more than two-thirds of both chambers of Congress. He could refuse to sign it, but that doesn’t prevent it from becoming law.

If judges have managed to resist smacking Lindsey Halligan, I don’t think anyone’s getting smacked.

Were. Before the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago.