Palpatine thinks he is relevant to this.

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    11 months ago

    I get that he has to fight this, for political reasons, but this is the dumbest fucking rebuttal ever

    What he’s targeting here is private citizens with no legislative purpose. I think it’s completely and totally inappropriate,” McConnell said at a press conference Tuesday

    The Supreme Court is hardly your average citizen and Congress absolutely has reasons to investigate potential corrupt in the Supreme Court.

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      11 months ago

      Targeting a private citizen who was involved in bribing members of the Supreme Court of the United States. Somehow I think that second part might be relevant to Congress subpoenaing that “poor wittle pwivate citizen”

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      Congress is literally tasked with setting up the court system in the constitution. Through, you know, legislation. He’s talking out of his ass.

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      11 months ago

      also weird since he definitely thought it was worth it to probe hunter biden despite being a private citizen

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      It’s the billionaires he is saying are private citizens, he’s trying to protect his doners from humiliation