quote, make rosenstein the proper successor to jeff sessions. maryland is arguing that because they re just in the process of suing jeff sessions over the aca, this whole thing needs to be cleared up fast. they don t want matt whitaker sticking his nose in their affordable care act lawsuit if he s not lawfully able to hold that job. quote, once whitaker appears as acting attorney general, it will be difficult to unwind any positions that the attorney general takes. so this is a federal lawsuit, right? if the judge rules in maryland s favor here, what would happen to matt whitaker? could this federal judge order that he s not really the acting general and effectively install rod rosenstein in his place? if the judge ordered anything like that, right, the justice department would almost certainly appeal that would ultimately send this case hurtling towards the supreme court. we re sort of in permanent hearing loss zone now when it
quote, make rosenstein the proper successor to jeff sessions. maryland is arguing that because they re just in the process of suing jeff sessions over the aca, this whole thing needs to be cleared up fast. they don t want matt whitaker sticking his nose in their affordable care act lawsuit if he s not lawfully able to hold that job. quote, once whitaker appears as acting attorney general, it will be difficult to unwind any positions that the attorney general takes. so this is a federal lawsuit, right? if the judge rules in maryland s favor here, what would happen to matt whitaker? could this federal judge order that he s not really the acting attorney general and effectively install rod rosenstein in his place? if the judge ordered anything like that, right, the justice department would almost certainly appeal that would ultimately send this case hurtling towards the supreme court. we re sort of in permanent hearing loss zone now when it comes to alarm bells being
when somebody tells you something, you should believe them. yeah. remember, the original cover story was defending the honor of hillary clinton and the republic from jim comey really letting her down during the campaign. and trump sat down with lester holt and said, that was russia. this new fact pattern i think is important, though. you have multiple contemporaneous memos. people in law enforcement being so concerned they write a contemporaneous memo. that is a proof point that won t be easy to ignore. it establishes a degree of intent. and the question if he was providing a degree of cover for the president, all troubling facts. laura, does that make rosenstein now compromised? i think he was always compromised in a way, alisyn. his memo that was written in large part with jeff sessions, was also always used as a cover for the president, although the president in his lester holt