Sounds like there was an anti-nepotism law passed in 1967 that the Department of Justice has generally thought to bar the practice for presidents up until 2017 when it issued memos saying that it had changed its opinion on it. My guess is that it's never been tested in court.Originally Posted by FaultyMario
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/...latives-243395
Not saying Biden jr. should be banned from working for life, but serving on the board of an energy company collecting $50k/mon with seemingly no qualifications whatsoever other than possible political gains for the company...
Anyway, I feel bad/sympathetic to hunter’s personal background; nevertheless, he got to where he is/was because of dad. Nepotism was going on.
However, like I said, if this kind of nepotism can bring down trump, I’m certainly willing to look the other way. Still, in the future, it’s just not a good idea for politicians’ immediate family members to accept such cushy jobs... particularly in areas where the politician is suppose to actively develop/regulate businesses there. Conflict of interest issue will just make everyone’s job much harder.
Here are more details about Hunter:
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/pol...ukraine-shokin
Last edited by Crazed_Insanity; October 1st, 2019 at 04:36 PM.
When it continues to go great
I'd call this news.
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Definitely, beginning to see cracks in GOP ranks. Fox News also reported on Trump wanting to shoot migrants in the legs.
There are definitely cracks... wasn't there a poll done saying that about 35 republican senators would vote to impeach the guy if only they could cast that vote anonymously?
GOP politicians just want to keep his base happy. Pretty sure most on capitol hill don't like him.
Anyway, I'm still on the fence about impeachment. Even if we successfully got rid of the orangutan, President Pence will be a much formidable opponent come 2020. I think I'd much rather prefer to see Trump defeated by a land slide loss in 2020...
Doubt it. Pence will have the evangelical vote to be sure, but he's going to lose to moderates (edit: meant to say independents, there's no moderates left in the GOP obviously) by a severe margin I expect
Last edited by MR2 Fan; October 2nd, 2019 at 10:26 AM.
In other news, 78 year old Bernie Sanders has suspended his campaign briefly to have some stents put in, and suddenly his health is going to be a big part of the Dem campaign.
I expect it will be between Biden and Warren for the nomination at this point
He’s been a fierce fighter, but yeah, I wouldn’t want my grandpa or my 70 something dad to campaign like that. Time to pass the torch Bernie. Take it easy!
I wonder who he will endorse if he’s really out of the running. Unless there’s a huge surprise, Warren should be able to consolidate most of the democratic votes...
Regarding Pence, I think it’ll be much easier for the conservatives to throw their support behind Pence than Trump.
Those ‘non-socialist independents’ appalled by trump might be reluctantly voting democrats. Without trump, their decisions will become easier.
A corporate democrat will lose. They have such a narrow band of policy (unlike wide-eyed nationalism, a la Palin/Trump), and when, like Warren, they start stealing other people's proposals, they're quickly called in on them.
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