Deputy White House Counsel Patrick Philbin seemed to have "Schiff duty" during much of the Q&A, and he methodically debunked Schiff's claims throughout the proceedings.
Toward the end of the Q&A session on Thursday night, Philbin tackled Schiff's continued allegations that the President's legal team and DoJ's Office of Legal Counsel are at odds in their legal opinions.
Patrick Philbin: Manager Schiff keeps suggesting that somehow we're coming here saying one thing, and the Department of Justice is saying something else in court without litigation.
Now earlier, Manager Schiff suggested that today [Thursday] in court that the Department of Justice went in and said that there's no jurisdiction, and when the judge said, "Well, if there's no jurisdiction to sue, then what can Congress do?" And the DoJ, as he represented it, simply said, "Well, if they can't sue, then they can impeach," as if that was the direct answer - that if you can't sue, then the next step is to go to impeachment.
DoJ said, "The point we made in court is simply that Congress has numerous political tools it can use in battles with the executive branch: appropriations, legislation, nominations, and potentially, in some circumstances, even impeachment. For example, it can hold up funding for the President's preferred programs, pass legislation he opposes, or refuse to confirm his nominees. But it is absurd for Chairman Schiff to portray our mere description of the Constitution as somehow endorsing his rush-to-impeachment process."
His claim of "Legal separation" between OLC and the President's team is preposterous, as Patrick Philbin presented.
Patrick Philbin said it best when he stated that, "Our position is that the Constitution requires incrementalism in conflicts between the branches, and that means that first there should be an accommodation process." No great leaps that break with the Constitution and precedent.
https://www.redstate.com/stu-in-sd/2020/02/01/impeachment-trial-patrick-philbin-deconstructs-another-abject-schiff-lie/
Toward the end of the Q&A session on Thursday night, Philbin tackled Schiff's continued allegations that the President's legal team and DoJ's Office of Legal Counsel are at odds in their legal opinions.
Patrick Philbin: Manager Schiff keeps suggesting that somehow we're coming here saying one thing, and the Department of Justice is saying something else in court without litigation.
Now earlier, Manager Schiff suggested that today [Thursday] in court that the Department of Justice went in and said that there's no jurisdiction, and when the judge said, "Well, if there's no jurisdiction to sue, then what can Congress do?" And the DoJ, as he represented it, simply said, "Well, if they can't sue, then they can impeach," as if that was the direct answer - that if you can't sue, then the next step is to go to impeachment.
DoJ said, "The point we made in court is simply that Congress has numerous political tools it can use in battles with the executive branch: appropriations, legislation, nominations, and potentially, in some circumstances, even impeachment. For example, it can hold up funding for the President's preferred programs, pass legislation he opposes, or refuse to confirm his nominees. But it is absurd for Chairman Schiff to portray our mere description of the Constitution as somehow endorsing his rush-to-impeachment process."
His claim of "Legal separation" between OLC and the President's team is preposterous, as Patrick Philbin presented.
Patrick Philbin said it best when he stated that, "Our position is that the Constitution requires incrementalism in conflicts between the branches, and that means that first there should be an accommodation process." No great leaps that break with the Constitution and precedent.
https://www.redstate.com/stu-in-sd/2020/02/01/impeachment-trial-patrick-philbin-deconstructs-another-abject-schiff-lie/
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