Edit:
Where I came up with my question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrGEQvAZQtA
An alternate history in which the American Revolution doesn't go so well for the Colonies.
House Democratic leaders announced that they would move ahead this week with two articles of impeachment against President Trump charging him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, accusing him of violating the Constitution when he pressed Ukraine for help in the 2020 election.
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... keep reading on reddit ➡Help me understand this. Recently, Rep Andy Levine tweeted that he announced the EVF Freedom Act that plans to
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develop a Nationwide network of high speed EV chargers
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Create good, Union jobs
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Reduce car emissions
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Breathe cleaner air
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Combat climate change
The last four points in the tweet make it sound like a resolution, like the Congress acknowledges that this needs to be done. But the first point, the point about developing a network of EV chargers, makes it seem like an action plan. Is this also a resolution? They cannot pass a law that requires the President to do these things, right? They cannot do this themselves, right? Or have I completely misunderstood all this?
Big story, especially considering Barr testifies tomorrow before the Senate, from WaPo. Instead of summarizing this, I think it's best to pull out the important parts because the exact characterization is important.
> Days after Barr’s announcement [that Mueller had not found a conspiracy & left the obstruction decision to Barr), Mueller wrote a previously unknown private letter to the Justice Department, which revealed a degree of dissatisfaction with the public discussion of Mueller’s work that shocked senior Justice Department officials, according to people familiar with the discussions.
>“The summary letter the Department sent to Congress and released to the public late in the afternoon of March 24 did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office’s work and conclusions,” Mueller wrote. “There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.”
>The letter made a key request: that Barr release the 448-page report’s introductions and executive summaries, and made some initial suggested redactions for doing so, according to Justice Department officials.
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>In his letter, Mueller wrote that the redaction process “need not delay release of the enclosed materials. Release at this time would alleviate the misunderstandings that have arisen and would answer congressional and public questions about the nature and outcome of our investigation.”
After the letter, Mueller called Barr and "said he was concerned that news coverage of the obstruction investigation was misguided and creating public misunderstandings about the office’s work."
> Some senior Justice Department officials were frustrated by Mueller’s complaints, because they had expected that the report would reach them with proposed redactions the first time they got it, but it did not. Even when Mueller sent along his suggested redactions, those covered only a few areas of protected information, and the documents required further review, these people said.
CNN tweet: Nadler demands copy of Mueller letter by 10a tomor
... keep reading on reddit ➡