I will have the honor of appearing today as part of the confirmation hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee for Loretta Lynch, nominee to serve as United States Attorney General. Below is my written testimony for the hearing today.
Here is the full list of witnesses appearing today:
Sharyl Attkisson
Investigative Journalist
David Barlow
Partner
Sidley Austin LLP
David A. Clarke, Jr.
Sheriff
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
Catherine Engelbrecht
Founder
True The Vote
Janice K. Fedarcyk
Fedarcyk Consulting LLC
Stephen H. Legomsky
John S. Lehmann University Professor
School of Law at Washington University
The Reverend Doctor Clarence Newsome
Cincinnati , OH
Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz
Professor Of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies Cato Institute
Jonathan Turley
Professor, J.B. And Maurice C. Shapiro Chair Of Public Interest Law
George Washington University Law School
Washington , DC
The full committee hearing resumes this morning at 10 a.m. in Committee Room 216 in the Hart Senate Office Building.
Here is my testimony: Statement.Lynch Nomination.Turley Testimony.Senate
I hope my grandchildren have history teachers that know far more than you do Paul.
Inga – your grandchildren would have to go far to get someone better than me. 🙂
Oh yes, I’m sure he did, because… Obama is the Antichrist and Holder is the False Prophet. Besides I’m sure Whitehouse could never had written that himself.
I wonder if Holder wrote Whitehouse speech. Did not ask a question.
Sandi, “does she mind being used by color and gender”? Good lord, maybe she is confident that she is the best person for the job and she feels it has nothing to do with her color or gender.
Inga – what world do you live in that you don’t think she is figuring her statistical chances based on her race and gender?
Even ham n’ egger attorneys usually understand there are multiple meanings to words, like “politics.” Certainly the man from land of Dixie doesn’t argue the AG is a political appointment? No, he has avoided that obvious fact. That’s 8th grade civics. A prez picks a nominee who has the same “political” views as he, be they progressive, conservative, etc.. Then there is the balancing of the sausage making of our govt., the day to day “politics”of getting things done in our dysfunctional duopoly. The gracious politics. The hardball politics. The sleazy politics[your fav]. The “We need this one Eric, even though it’s not Constitutional, the party needs you on this one.” That’s the “politics” of which JT spoke in the quote you chose. Got any other lame points you want to try and sell. Some folk buy them.
Such an invaluable voice in what remains of our republic.
nick:
“And, your point?? WTF?”
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Now, I know how Dian Fossey felt.
A period should be after that “like yours”.
Mespo,
I hope my grandchildren have great history teachers, like yours I don’t recall any of mine, they must’ve been the part of the mediocre sort.
Inga:
Actually, I had some fascinating history teachers. My favorite was a pudgy guy named Dr. Bob Lembright who taught our college world history class. He was delightful. I had two great teachers in high school – Mr. Matheny and Mr. Coker — who employed different methods but who were deliciously cynical in a cheery sort of way.
Somehow it seems like history teachers aren’t the cream of the crop, as far as teachers go. However, perhaps I just haven’t run into some really good ones yet.
Inga – you know nothing about history.
And, your point?? WTF?
Paul:
” Napoleon was the Hitler of his day.”
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You really don’t know a lot of history, do you?
mespo – I know a LOT of history and I am dead right about Napoleon.
nick:
“The Attorney General is a POLITICAL appointment. To whine about there being politics during the confirmation of a political appointment is, by definition, stupid.”
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The sad truth is that Holder could have been truly great — not simply as the first black attorney general but as a man of principle who stood with the law over politics and friendship. In one of the great lost opportunities in history, Holder will finish his tenure as he began it: a man with great but still unrealized potential.
Who said this? Why, it was JT — right about here:
http://jonathanturley.org/2014/09/26/the-holder-years-and-the-perils-of-politics-over-principle-in-government/
nicky, dear, I think you owe JT an apology for the “stupid” remark.
The Attorney General is a POLITICAL appointment. To whine about there being politics during the confirmation of a political appointment is, by definition, stupid.
Paul:
“If I remember correctly Washington was involved in a war crime while he was a British officer.”
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Washington was in command of the Virginia colonial militia when Tanaghrisson, an Iroquois leader allied with his contingent, led a massacre of French troops in the Ohio Country following a short battle Washington won. The Native American did it to provoke an international incident and was thereby instrumental in prompting the Seven Years War.
Washington was so “reviled” by the French government for being “involved” with the “war crime” that at his death Consul Napoleon Bonaparte stated in an order to the nation that:
Washington is dead! The great man fought against tyranny. He established the liberty of his country. His memory will be ever dear to the freemen of both hemispheres and especially to the French soldiers who, like him, and the American troops have fought for liberty and equality.”
Black crepe was ordered suspended from all banners and standards in the Republic and many Frenchmen wore mourning clothes for months afterwards. Napoleon himself said on many occasions that he wished to become “a Washington.” and added “[h]ad I been in America, I would willingly have been a Washington.”
~Abbott, John S.C., The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte., p. 137 (1883).
mespo – Napoleon was the Hitler of his day. I don’t think being appreciated by the most reviled man in Europe says much for Washington. Like having a letter of recommendation from Charlie Manson. 😉
True Eliane
But..then ..again…they do.
Romney,s campaign counsel LinkedIn with me yesterday (currently he’s GC of GOP Lawyers CA)
Inference is…I won..Mitt is out
Today I told them America won (unless MittTwit comes back in); but that Im not satisfied until eToys gets back what was stolen
And th corrupt U.S. Attorney is prosecuted
My silence will be golden, when justice comes
Paul:
“Washington was a failed British want-to-be officer.”
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He certainly pales in comparison to the likes around here.
mespo or mark – who are you today?
If I remember correctly Washington was involved in a war crime while he was a British officer.
nick:
“It is political and legal. IT’S DC, not some podunk courtroom in Dixie. I would expect even a ham n’ egger attorney to understand that basic fact…”
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Send me a carrier pigeon when you get around to addressing the merits of my criticism with more that a Boss Hog “that’s the way we all do it around here” or a “Hey, Mark, forget it, it’s
ChinaWashington-town.” Maybe you could regale us with one of those Sam Spade-ish PI lines like “When you’re slapped, you’ll take it and like it.” Nyaa (apologies to Edward G Robinson).We have a Koch Bros. reference @ 1:16a.