BREAKING - Barr threatening Democrats!

[spanone]

[struggle4progress]

1. "We won't cooperate! And if you try to make us cooperate, we won't! So watch it!"

[spanone]

3. If this ain't a Constitutional Crisis I can't imagine one.

trumpco disregards co-equal branches of government

[PoliticAverse]

6. Bush (1), Bush (2), and Obama all invoked "executive privledge" to prevent someone

from testifying in front of Congress or producing requested documents.

[triron]

15. You are comparing 2 drastially different applicatcions.

Motive?

[PoliticAverse]

2. There's no threat to Democrats there. n/t

[Iliyah]

4. Isn't this illegal?

[spanone]

5. You would think...Barr is 100% trump's lawyer

[PoliticAverse]

7. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. The matter will go to the courts...

sometimes the courts agree with the "executive privledge" argument, sometimes they don't.

[Initech]

8. Oh yeah go there, assholes!

It will only come back to bite you in the ass hard.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

9. Okay, let's dance!!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[CincyDem]

10. He's completely free to "request that the President invoke Exec privilege"...then the question is...

...will Trump give it to him.

One of Trump's story lines is that he's been completely transparent and fully cooperative, pointing out that he's never claimed exec privilege. That story goes down the drain and sets up Watergate 2.0...not kinda sorta like Watergate but exactly like Watergate.

Nixon claims exec privilege over the tapes and loses 8-0 with the Supremes.

I'm betting that Roberts won't want his legacy being overtuning the Watergate precedents. Roe v Wade...yeah, they'll talk...but Watergate...I'm not so sure of that.

[msongs]

11. dont see any threat on that graphic. he can request anything he likes nt

[spanone]

12. DOJ THREATENS?

[Cracklin Charlie]

13. The evidence is being held hostage.

Do we negotiate with the terrorists?

[gordianot]

14. Cohen did have a good point looking at what happens to Trump toadies.

It gets Barr slightly off the hook and buys time to jump when the heat turns up.

[kentuck]

16. What is the process?

Does Trump have to offer executive privilege in writing or can he do it with a phone call or Twitter?