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“In pre-Trump Washington where the old rules applied, Rudy Giuliani could never survive the Senate confirmation process.” quote by Lawrence O'Donnell — Download Open image

“In pre-Trump Washington where the old rules applied, Rudy Giuliani could never survive the Senate confirmation process.”

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All writers are forced to live within deadlines, and deadlines determine how good they can be.

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The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use?

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Prosecutors have absolutely no control over what witnesses say when they leave the grand jury room.

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Because Republicans defected and voted with all the Democrats to reject Jeff Sessions' nomination when they discovered that when he was working as a prosecutor in Alabama, he called the NAACP Un-American.

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In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will…

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I've never understood the value of putting someone on television to lie, knowing that they're going to lie ahead of time, knowing that that…

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The Trump view of immigration defies our history. Immigration is a transaction that has historically benefited the country.

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I don't think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She [Hillary Clinton] is saying Russia, Russia, Russia. Maybe it was.…

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If a reader comes across a story that makes them cry, you can be sure that the writer felt every single thing that makes…

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National security advisors are not there to be advocates, generally. They're not there to be partisans, they're not there to be ideologues.

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Never once has Republican world said hey, maybe we should look into how police officers are carrying out their solemn public responsibility to serve…

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When Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions for federal district court judgeship, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination.

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The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use?

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Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this ordinance. Confirmation and the gift of the Holy Ghost follow baptism. Acceptance of these first principles and ordinances may obtain for us a remission of our sins and assure our salvation. In the ordinance of the sacrament, we…

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The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed by fear and respect as I suddenly saw and felt how deeply my own personal life and opinions were immersed in the eternal stream of great ideas. Though it offered some confirmation and gratification, the…

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The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather…

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“I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.”

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I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen... I am truly free…

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Had Christ not risen we could not believe Him to be what He declared Himself when He "made Himself equal with God." But He has risen in the confirmation of all His claims. By it alone, but by it thoroughly, is He manifested as the very Son of God, who has come into the world to reconcile the world to…

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I write to withdraw as a nominee to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. ... I am…

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No senator's vote, except for the declaration of war or the authorization for the use of force, is more important than the confirmation of…

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Even before the hearings that led to confirmation of Chief Justice Roberts, senators were saying they were reserving judgment on how they would vote…

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