>>7950226

>>7950180

>>7950174

Lawfag here. Answer is possibly (should be certainly, but nothing in the law works like that especially with crooked bastards in charge).

Technically, this is a "trial" although it does not quite follow typical courtroom format that lawyers and laymen know. The question hasn't come up before so it would be a "question of first impression."

Legal procedures being what they are, this "trial" would likely fall back on other trial processes where this question HAS been answered before. So, the short version is this (and it's NOT a complete answer, the water is thoroughly muddied on this issue):

1. Is the lawyer a material witness? If so, lawyer must be recused from representing client so he can be called as a witness. Assuming this to be the case (and we know it's true), Schitt-ass would have to drop off the House Managers prosecution team and step into the box. The other HM's would have to object where they were obligated to do so, in order to protect privileges.

What privileges? IDFK. That's too deep into the weeds for me to answer without getting paid for it - sorry. Answering that question would take moar work and resources than I can frankly devote to it. I don't work for DLA Piper, ya know? (They don't impress but they got scads of clerks and fancy computer systems)

1. Is the lawyer not a material witness? If this is the correct answer, then the judge would, in legalese, say something to the effect of, "Fuck off with your subpoena, I got a trial to run and you're just being a dick."

>>7950308

"Conflicts of Interest" is kind of like the honor system of the law. If you're honest, then you follow it. But if you're not, it "doesn't matter" unless you get caught.

Doubly so for Congresscritters in an impeachment trial. Who's going to tell them ethics?

Roberts? (Imagine me screaming in laughter so hard I vomited the chalupa I had for dinner)

>>7950348

Interdasting, and yes, you're right…except for one thing. See post above.

Just like every other lawyer, the conflicts of interest shit only works when honest lawyers pay attention to it. It's a fine line to walk sometimes and occasionally honest lawyers make mistakes…

But there's a metric fuckton of sleazebags in suits or skirts who breezily ignore it while fucking everyone in sight.

I'm no longer in the business because there's no way, really, for an honest man to profit.

>>7950506

I'm sure he has some feverish late 20-something bench wenchs laboring in the stacks as we speak so they can hand in their homework to the master clerk.

>>7950504

It's the same thing, just a different title.

This isn't a courtroom trial, it's a Senate trial. They'll make stuff up as they go if needs be. Not like this shit happens every day.

>>7950604

>>7950575

Still haven't figured out why HRC refrained from suiciding Ms. Fried-Burrito.

Maybe her game is off.

>>7950644

Can confirm. Raise a double merle Sheltie.

They can be LOUD. Best guard dog and friend you could ever have, though.

>>7950734

Not just those four "sons".

Posted this in Day Shift this morning and, predictably, it went nowhere.

This is a dig worth making.

Ray LaHood

Highlights (from Wiki, but well sauced footnotes for starts):

• From Illinois

• Republican

• Arab-American (Lebanese ancestry)

• one of only three Republicans who did not sign on to Gingrich's Contract with America

• served on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee from 1995 until 2000, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence beginning in 1998, and the House Appropriations Committee beginning in 2000

• nom'd by Obama as Transportation Secretary in Dec 2008 before Obama took office

Known porkbarrel moneyman and spendthrift; The Washington Post reported that of the $60 million in earmarks LaHood secured for his district in 2008, $9 million went to campaign donors

>Here's where shit gets spoopy

"On January 21, 2012, LaHood's son, Sam LaHood, was detained by the Egyptian government and not allowed to leave the country as part of a politically charged criminal investigation by the Egyptian government into the activities of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) monitoring local elections in Egypt. LaHood's son is the Egypt director of the International Republican Institute. The Egyptian government detained twelve NGO representatives from leaving Egypt.

On February 5, 2012, Egyptian authorities charged LaHood's son and 42 other individuals with "spending money from organizations that were operating in Egypt without a license." Nineteen Americans were part of the 42 charged.

The U.S. government said that $1.5 billion in U.S. aid to Egypt could be withheld if the investigation was not finished quickly.

>Look familiar?

Faiza Abu Naga, Egypt's Minister of International Cooperation, was seen as the person pushing the investigation forward. Sam LaHood left Egypt along with several foreign NGO workers on March 1, 2012. Sam LaHood was tried in absentia by an Egyptian criminal court, and convicted of operating without a license and receiving foreign funding. LaHood was given a five-year jail term and fined 1,000 Egyptian pounds ($143).

Paging the Podesta brothers, cleanup on aisle Egypt

>>7950856

Good Lord!

Did she get those feet out of a jar of pickling juice in a South Carolina convenience store?

>>7950878

Negative. It's not for you to use. Ask God; He supplies the magic, we supply the belief in Him.

That's how it works. You go playing with "magic" (other than simple illusionist tricks which really aren't magic) and you're practically inviting Satan to butt-fuck you for eternity.