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catbyte

(34,423 posts)
Thu Oct 10, 2019, 10:05 PM Oct 2019

Wow. I'm watching "All In with Chris Hayes" on DVR and he has a conservative Harvard

Constitutional Law professor & former Reagan official on, Charles Fried, and he sounds scared and angry. He called that thing currently infesting the White House "a thug" and said we are nearing a Constitutional Crisis and will be in one if they keep stonewalling the House. I've really never seen someone so disgusted. It's remarkable. He was an author of a press release with several other conservative and Libertarian lawyers calling for "an expeditious impeachment investigation." It's the last segment of his show and it's extraordinary. I wish I could post it but I only saw it on television.

Here's a short blurb about him from Wikipedia:

Charles Fried (born April 15, 1935)[1] is an American jurist and lawyer. He served as United States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989. He is a professor at Harvard Law School and has been a visiting professor at Columbia Law School. He also serves on the board[2] of the nonpartisan group, the Campaign Legal Center.

Fried is the author of nine books and over 30 journal articles, and his work has appeared in over a dozen collections.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fried
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Wow. I'm watching "All In with Chris Hayes" on DVR and he has a conservative Harvard (Original Post) catbyte Oct 2019 OP
He said something chilling too. drray23 Oct 2019 #1
I watched it live. Both those Law Profs are more angry than any other Pub. I've ever seen. napi21 Oct 2019 #2
Sounds promising. Nt BootinUp Oct 2019 #3
No articles until the fish stinks to high heaven. harumph Oct 2019 #4

drray23

(7,637 posts)
1. He said something chilling too.
Thu Oct 10, 2019, 10:12 PM
Oct 2019

He said he was born in a vibrant democracy ( Prague, Czechoslovakia ) back in 1935. His family fled when it turned fascist and went to the United states. He stated Trump reminds him of these darker times. Basically he believes we are turning into a dictatorship.

napi21

(45,806 posts)
2. I watched it live. Both those Law Profs are more angry than any other Pub. I've ever seen.
Thu Oct 10, 2019, 10:13 PM
Oct 2019

Neither one tiptoed around the idiocy and criminality of our jack a**. They wanted the House to expedite the impeachment hearings and get the articles over to the Senate ASAP. I believe they are afraid of what damage JA could do in the interim.

harumph

(1,910 posts)
4. No articles until the fish stinks to high heaven.
Thu Oct 10, 2019, 10:53 PM
Oct 2019

Trump needs to be so foul and repugnant that the Senate will have no choice but to convict.
He's not quite done...but he's getting there. Drip Drip.

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