By law, we had to make certain redactions.… But we said to Congress, any congressman can come in and spend as much time as they want looking at everything unredacted.

  • 8oow3291d@feddit.dk
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    2 days ago

    He is “acting AG”. Not even confirmed yet. The purpose of impeachment is to take an appointee from “confirmed” to “non-confirmed” status. I am not even sure impeachment would make sense? Couldn’t Trump join make him acting AG immediately again?

    • Janx@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 days ago

      No, that’s not correct. “Impeachment is a process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct.”

      https://www.britannica.com/topic/impeachment

      Landau, Sidney; Brantley, Sheila; Davis, Samuel; Koenigsberg, Ruth, eds. (1997). Funk & Wagnall’s Standard Desk Dictionary. Vol. 1 (1996 ed.). United States: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. p. 322. ISBN 978-0-308-10353-5. “1. To charge (a high public official) before a legally constituted tribunal with crime or misdemeanor in office. 2. To bring discredit upon the honesty or validity of.”

      • 8oow3291d@feddit.dk
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        2 days ago

        From your own article:

        In Great Britain conviction on an impeachment has resulted in fine and imprisonment and even in execution, whereas in the United States the penalties extend no further than removal and disqualification from office.

        So removal only. Which might even nor make sense, because he was never confirmed by the Senate. Trump can just immediately appoint him again.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      2 days ago

      He’s the AG. This was a trick they pulled in the first term. You make a guy the “acting” head of the agency, and he does the job until the new guy gets appointed, and approved by the Senate.

      So what happens if you name an “acting” head, and then never choose a final appointee? Nothing. Nothing happens. Your chosen guy remains the head of the agency, without ever being vetted or approved by the Senate.

      Todd Flintstone is the new AG, for all ill tents and porpoises.