A SCOTUS Opening

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(09-23-2020, 04:08 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Well, it was supposedly for a different reason other than pursing corruption charges on Hunter Biden, but Biden still threatened to withhold aid to a foreign government. 

Biden was publicly representing the position of the US Government, as well as the EU, when he made that threat.

I.e. doing his job. 

The point of the whole exercise was to remove a prosecutor who wasn't addressing corruption in the Ukraine, and US aid was predicated on Ukraine taking action to stop it.  Biden or no, the aid would have been withheld had that prosecutor remained.

The Fox tack on this was to present Biden's official, public action as EQUIVALENT to Trump, in a private phone call, linking aid already cleared for Ukraine to an announcement of dirt on Biden. Not doing his job. Abuse of power.

Here's the latest on this topic.  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/us/politics/biden-inquiry-republicans-johnson.html

WASHINGTON — An election-year investigation by Senate Republicans into corruption allegations against Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee, and his son, Hunter, involving Ukraine found no evidence of improper influence or wrongdoing by the former vice president, bringing to a close a highly politicized inquiry its leaders had hoped would tarnish President Trump’s rival.

The report asserted that Hunter Biden traded off his father’s name to close lucrative business deals around the world, and that his work for Burisma Holdings, a corrupt Ukrainian energy company while the former vice president was directing American policy toward Kyiv gave the appearance of a conflict of interest and alarmed some in the State Department. But the 87-page document released on Wednesday by the Senate Homeland Security Committee contained no evidence that the former vice president improperly manipulated American policy toward Ukraine or committed any other misdeed.