re: Principled Conservative Justin Amash votes to hold Barr/Ross in contempt

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Validly issued" isn't the gist of the analysis. Rather, assertion of Executive Privilege.

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Thank you. I think that analysis definitely would apply to privilege materials. My question is whether everything requested under the subpoena was actually privileged. If the witness refuses to produce anything, what tools available to resolve that question, other than an attempt to enforce the subpoena by the body which issued it?

Why is it “unconservative” to seek that enforcement and thereby obtain that determination?

Is there not a certain amount of kowtowing involved to simply accept the assertion that everything requested was indeed subject to the privilege in question?

To be very clear, there is no doubt in my mind that the administration is entitled to ask for citizenship question on the census form, provided that it follows the statutory requirements for such an inclusion. Assuming that the subpoenas in question were intended to determine whether those procedures were indeed followed by the administration, does the privilege even apply?

Again, however, my interest in this thread is to determine why his actions as are perceived as not being “conservative. It seems that the analysis does not go much further than “he is not supporting Trump.”

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democrats have weaponized congress. They are using bull shite investigations to harass and intimidate their political opponents. These police state tactics are used in banana republics.

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Which leaves 2 options: 1) a peaceable divorce with the property divided 50/50, or 2) a purge and we keep it all.

ETA: Well really three options with the third being do nothing and regress into socialism and eventually communism by way of voter fraud and a dumbed down nation.

Who do you think runs this website? Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy?

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Is it “conservative” to enable a witness in ignoring such a subpoena?

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link me to his outrage over Obama officials ignoring congressional subpoenas and flat out refusing to testify before Congress

if he never spoke out then, then he is nothing more than an opportunist hack

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link me to his outrage over Obama officials 

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Hell, link me to LiberalHank criticizing a democrat over anything. Dude's the only libertarian in history to never criticise a democrat.

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There are still users here who white knight for him calling him the only true principled conservative libertarian in Washington

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That would be Rand Paul.