Holocaust attorney sues FBI over election interference that could lead to impeachment of Trump

[Coyotl]

Source: David Edwards - 8 Dec 2016 - rawstory.com

E. Randol Schoenberg, an attorney renowned for recovering artworks stolen by Nazis during the Holocaust, filed a lawsuit against the FBI this week to get answers about why Director James Comey falsely suggested that Hillary Clinton committed a crime just days before the 2016 election.

“I filed a lawsuit today against the US Department of Justice seeking immediate disclosure of the FBI search warrant for the e-mails of Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin on Anthony Weiner’s laptop,” Schoenberg wrote on his Facebook page on Wednesday. “I think we need to see what ‘probable cause’ was shown for obtaining the search warrant, because whoever thought there was going to be evidence of a crime was obviously mistaken. And that mistake probably changed the outcome of the election.”

In a blog post late last month, Schoenberg explained that it would be very unusual for a judge to grant the FBI a search warrant “[s]imply because someone has the ability to commit the crime of intentionally violating laws governing the handling of classified information.”

“To obtain a warrant it had to establish probable cause to believe that evidence of a crime would be found. Since we now know that no such evidence was found on the laptop, it is time to investigate why the FBI believed it had probable cause.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/holocaust-attorney-sues-fbi-over-election-interference-that-could-lead-to-impeachment-of-trump/

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Rigging elections is a perfect crime if nothing can be done about it.

[Rorey]

1. It'll probably go nowhere, BUT....

At least there's an effort, as opposed to the analyzing by many of why we "lost". We didn't lose. The reason we didn't win is Comey, Wikileaks (a whole lotta nothing), fake news, and a decades long vendetta against someone who has worked tirelessly all her life for the good of the country.

[ffr]

14. a decades long vendetta against someone who has worked tirelessly all her life...

I saw analogies before the election of this being similar to a high school class president election, where there was the scholar with a proven record of years of service building coalitions, bring people together for everyone's betterment. The opponent was the class clown that had never done anything for anyone else but himself, was a loner and was basically running for office as a joke.

I cannot contemplate how our country will dig out of this error in four years, if the World as we know it doesn't end by then.

[certainot]

34. two years. dems must win at least one house in 2018

[Mountain Mule]

15. We must fight to get our democracy back on every level

This is inspiring news! All of us must fight becoming peasants under Trump's dictatorship. Even a single candle held up against the dark can make a difference. I live in far SW Colorado right next to the tribal lands of the Ute Mountain Utes. I just now got the news that my county must now print voter ballots in the Ute Language, as well as English. Score one for our side! Now the local Dems. self included, must go to the Utes, spend time talking and winning at least some trust, and maybe, just maybe my rural Colorado county will go from red to blue in the next election (assuming we have one). Don't give up hope. Fight back as hard as you can!

[Aimee in OKC]

41. Starting locally IS key to that effort...

Snips from a 2014 article about an enemy, ALEC and a possible new ally ALICE:

"ALEC Could Be Coming to Your City Soon: The American City County Exchange

On Wednesday, ALEC announced the launch of a new offshoot that will apply ALEC’s modus operandi of courting legislators with corporate lobbyists to draft model bills advancing corporate interests – to the local level.

This new arm of ALEC, the American City County Exchange (ACCE), held its first meeting last Wednesday at the Hilton Anatole. ACCE will work in conjunction with ALEC to influence elected representatives in city and county council positions, while ALEC focuses on state legislatures.

... workshop scheduled for Thursday is called: “Releasing Local Governments from the Grip of Collective Bargaining.”

* * *
A progressive ALEC could be in the birthing stages with the announcement of a merger of the American Legislative and Issue Campaign Exchange (ALICE) and the Progressive States Network.

* * *
ALEC played a role in founding the State Policy Network (SPN) . . . that includes affiliated think tanks and trade associations in every state, as well as national members such as the Heritage Foundation, Americans for Prosperity and the Cato Institute.

. . . they coordinate to support ALEC’s conservative agenda to promote the privatization of the public sector, to attack renewable energy policies, public employee unions and policies ALEC opposes.

. . .the think tanks and organizations involved in SPN are overwhelmingly funded through dark money groups and that some of these organizations disseminate faux news backed anonymously by corporate interests. "


http://billmoyers.com/2014/08/04/amid-protests-alec-launches-new-spinoff-to-influence-local-governments/

[Aimee in OKC]

42. Here's "ALICE", blended with 3 other organizations

The "State Innovation Exchange" = SiX

"What resources does SiX offer?

First and foremost, SiX works to ensure that state legislators have the support they need to advance and defend progressive policies on the issues that matter – from equal pay, climate change, and election reform to paid sick leave, wage theft prevention, and predatory lending. For additional information and resources on any of our core policy priorities, feel free to visit our issues section.

SiX’s signature Policy Playbooks – formerly known as Campaigns in a Box – are carefully researched and regularly updated toolkits that we have compiled with input from state and national advocates, organizers, and leading policy experts from across the country. Each Playbook is designed to bring legislators up to speed on a given issue, with a full menu of policy solutions, legislative language, communications and messaging guidance, and resources from local, state, and national organizations with expertise on the subject matter. ... . "

* * *
'Toolkits', a legislative library, annual convention of state legislators, caucus visits, legislator trainings, bill trackings, conference calls & recordings of webinars ... .


https://stateinnovation.org/faqs/

[HassleCat]

2. Impeachment fantasies.

Can we please stop this? There is not going to be any impeachment. Trump could sodomize and murder an eight year old boy in the capitol rotunda, and not be impeached.

[MFM008]

8. Know this

Things like this eat away at the maggot. Galls him.
Stresses him out.......setting him up for the big one.
And I don't mean earthquake......

[HassleCat]

18. Yes, it's good to keep chipping.

We should be looking at congress in 2018. Let's focus on that and realize impeachment is not a possibility.

[lastlib]

24. But just in case.........

...Let's keep our eyes open for impeachable offenses......

Little Donny is so arrogant that he thinks he is impervious to being accused of any wrong-doing. It could be his downfall. Remember Orion. In Greek mythology, Orion the Hunter boasted that the greatest beast could not defeat him. Zeus sent the scorpion to sting him to death; he was defeated, not by the strongest of beasts, but by one of the smallest. He was then placed in the sky to show all the result of his arrogance.

[HassleCat]

30. But don't present them as such.

Let's say he does something unthinkable, such as lying about oral sex. It is counterproductive to present this as a reason to impeach him. The more we scream "Impeach him! IMPEACH HIM!" the more the voters will see it as a partisan vendetta. We need to concentrate on the substantive things, his broken promises, his foreign policy failures, his gutting of workplace safety and environmental regulation. His game is personalities, and we just found out we can't win his game. We can't level the plying field, so we need to play soccer instead of rugby, or something like that.

[COLGATE4]

29. Impeached??!! Hell, they'd probably give him

some kind of Congressional award.

[SCantiGOP]

32. Thank you, HassleCat

There is nothing in this story that would lead to a conclusion that this story could lead to Trump's impeachment.
It's time we quit deluding ourselves and start preparing to fight this bastard and his cronies for the next four years.

We don't want to end up as the liberal version of Breitbart with fantasy conspiracies.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

35. H could join with Russia in their invasion of France and not get impeached.

[sfwriter]

38. If he gets impeached...

It will be at Republican hands to protect THEIR presidency. In a couple of years, they may decide and incumbent Pence is better than a current Trump.

That is the only scenario I imagine leading to impeachment.

[Hortensis]

3. Good! Fox has this as "L.A.-based Lawyer sues FBI..."

In a just world, Comey would go to prison for a very, very long time. In one with capital punishment, he might be executed. Huge crime, huge betrayal of everything and everyone, huge damage to democracy.

[LaydeeBug]

4. this nt

[byronius]

7. Gotta say. you're right on.

[Stellar]

33. "He might be executed", As far as I'm concerned...

That would be a slap on the wrist for Comey.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. If and when Trump is impeached

it will be because the best and the brightest freedom loving citizens
used their time and talents to examine every nuance and gain every
advantage

Trump won't have the necessities to compete with that, he just
orders everyone about

[SticksnStones]

6. It's not enough to just be impeached....

He's got to be convicted of bribery, treason or other high crimes or misdemeanors to be removed from office...or he can resign (he'll never).

But ya can't JUST impeach the guy.

[flying-skeleton]

9. Not an aggrieved party ... the lawsuit will be thrown out

[Coyotl]

10. There are 65,527,625 aggrieved parties and still counting.

There are 2,676,189 more aggrieved parties than Trump voters, that being a popular vote winning margin of 1.967%.

I've reflected on how I have grounds to file just as much as any citizen, on equal justice grounds, and not just against an outcome but to seek remedy for electoral inequities due to state-by-state disparities in right to vote restrictions and kinds of voting, in other words to use the courts to force fair and transparent elections.

[pennylane100]

11. It would be if all members of DU could chip in and file such a suit.

[yeoman6987]

12. They will say comey didn't have an effect on the election because Hillary won the popular vote

Guaranteed they throw it out that way.

[Coyotl]

13. That's not how they determined a search warrant was needed.

What matters is the point of law.

Of course, the fact that Hillary was going to win the vote could be argued as the reason they needed a search warrant to create the inference of a crime. It could also be argued that even with Comey in the mix, they still needed to switch 50,000 votes to steal the Electoral College, but try to take that to court.

[TomVilmer]

19. And she did...

... but your elections are a different game. The Democratic war room was playing it wrong, and lost. They used all their campaigning and money to assure a big turnout of voters, who in reality was unnecessary for winning this game and just produced millions of superfluous votes. The Trump campaign played it much better, and won the popular vote in the most states. And more importantly, in the states where the votes really count by your archaic election system.

Please stop dreaming, that total popular vote count will ever be the future goal post. What might be possible, is changing the way the Electoral College is selected. If the prior elections for the last 25 years then can be counted in a way, where the resulting winning majority is shared between the parties at the same number of times, as the reality was - you might be able to convince the Republicans.

Any other solution will never happen.

[LisaM]

28. There's more than one race.

Arguing against turning out voters seems like a zero sum game to me.

[TomVilmer]

31. Do call all the voters

but be highly aware in which states they count the most in the end. If not, some smart guy will trump all your good efforts.

[Kingofalldems]

23. No, guaranteed that YOU throw it out there--which you just did.

Can't fool everyone.

[Kingofalldems]

36. Also did it ever occur to you she would have gotten even more votes

had it not been for Comey?

[Ilsa]

16. I just hope Comey, trump, et al are up to their eyeballs in legal fees

as they try to defend their criminal acts. I hope Trump's billionaire friends get tired of bailing his ass out of trouble.

Let it begin, and thank you, Schoenberg.

Schoenberg's story of helping a survivor recover her family's Klimt paintings is told in Woman in Gold, starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. It's worth seeing.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. The federal government has to give permission

to be sued, so won't go anywhere.

[LaydeeBug]

20. Great. Then we'll have President Pence. That might be worse. nt

[wryter2000]

21. We already have President Pence

Don't think the Orange Emperor is going to do anything other than "make American great again."

[Tanuki]

22. Hope Giuliani is forced to disclose the source of the leaks he went around propagating re: this. nt

[Javaman]

25. we live in a cartoon democracy. nt

[LiberalFighter]

26. I would rather find a way to invalidate the election results then to impeach the asshole.

Impeachment means Pence would be President.

Election invalidation if that is possible would mean neither Trump or Pence are President.

[MontanaMama]

27. I agree that Dumbass Donny Tic-Tax

will never be impeached and I also see the value (and satisfaction) of "chipping away" at his fragile ego.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

37. What Holocaust?

Any education about any holocaust will probably be scrubbed from textbooks by our new Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos.

Along with any education about evolution, sex education, etc.

[CanonRay]

39. An excellent idea.

At least he'll maybe get FBI in record before a judge.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

40. There's plenty of evidence. That indicts the GOPeee as a whole!

In my not very humble opinion, anyway.

I want the election annulled...including all the POS's appointments. And the coterie of buddies who once said he was unfit, and now fight for a place at his feet. On their knees.

You're gonna wear out the knees on those nice $3k suits, Paulie.