The old Bonald Blumpf thread is over 3000 posts long now. Can we have an impeachment-specific thread?
The US appeals court just ruled that Trump's tax returns can be released for use in a public criminal investigation. The Supreme Court may overrule this but despite having a conservative majority, it is far less predictable and prone to voting along 'party' lines. I'm really enjoying this season.
>>87140 Kavanaugh has been a bit of a curveball. He's taken positions that one wouldn't necessarily expect a Republican judge to take, such as in a case on majority verdicts, where he was the one who expressed concern over whether the state law at issue was rooted in dolphin rape.
I'll be Barney Frank with you chaps right now and tell you that America may be the only country with an even less interesting political freakshow than the United Kingdom.
I'd not be surprised if he survives to the end of his term but a second one seems unlikely. Not impossible, certainly, but I think both voters and his party are moving on.
It's looking very likely that the vote on impeachment will be driven by the Democrats and Republicans looking ahead to coming elections, both presidential and in the senate and house of representatives.
Many republicans will be scared of voting against Trump as their voters may see it as a betrayal against the cause. However there are signs that many republicans would turn coat against him as they're seeing him as too much of a liability.
Democrats will probably vote against Trump, but it's not out of the question that some would feel that a likeable Democrat Presidential candidate would have much better chances against Trump than against a more moderate Republican candidate who might emerge out of the wreckage of an impeachment.
>>87155 A lot will hang on what happens to Pence. Some Republicans might be happy to ditch Trump to see a coronation, but the whispers are that Pence knows pretty much everything and the Democrats may try and take him out too, knowing that with both of them gone Pelosi is next in line.