Stefan Passantino
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Even putting aside this constitutional separation of powers that you had talked about before, which was the legislative branch is supposed to legislate, the Department of Justice, if they had simply just done a referral, and of course, Both Cassidy Hutchinson testifies that she did a criminal referral. Liz Cheney told ABC News that she had done a criminal referral on me.
Even putting aside this constitutional separation of powers that you had talked about before, which was the legislative branch is supposed to legislate, the Department of Justice, if they had simply just done a referral, and of course, Both Cassidy Hutchinson testifies that she did a criminal referral. Liz Cheney told ABC News that she had done a criminal referral on me.
Fair enough, that's the job because the Department of Justice has 250 years of regulations that are designed to protect the due process rights of the accused. The DOJ will never comment on or confirm that there's an ongoing investigation And that's designed to protect the rights of the innocent. Of course. And those rules are there because the Department of Justice's job is to enforce the law.
Fair enough, that's the job because the Department of Justice has 250 years of regulations that are designed to protect the due process rights of the accused. The DOJ will never comment on or confirm that there's an ongoing investigation And that's designed to protect the rights of the innocent. Of course. And those rules are there because the Department of Justice's job is to enforce the law.
Fair enough, that's the job because the Department of Justice has 250 years of regulations that are designed to protect the due process rights of the accused. The DOJ will never comment on or confirm that there's an ongoing investigation And that's designed to protect the rights of the innocent. Of course. And those rules are there because the Department of Justice's job is to enforce the law.
Well, Congress circumvented all of that with regard to me. They went right from, we need to present a narrative. We need to destroy this person. We are going to use, and literally, they highlighted the day before that this was going to come out. they had been rolling out transcripts of all of the various testimony.
Well, Congress circumvented all of that with regard to me. They went right from, we need to present a narrative. We need to destroy this person. We are going to use, and literally, they highlighted the day before that this was going to come out. they had been rolling out transcripts of all of the various testimony.
Well, Congress circumvented all of that with regard to me. They went right from, we need to present a narrative. We need to destroy this person. We are going to use, and literally, they highlighted the day before that this was going to come out. they had been rolling out transcripts of all of the various testimony.
On that Tuesday, whatever that was, the 22nd or whatever of December, it was right before Christmas. It was horrifying, the hate mail that one receives on Christmas. I received so many, beyond like just death threats, but so many lawyers emailing me saying, you're a disgrace to the legal profession. And I'm thinking to myself,
On that Tuesday, whatever that was, the 22nd or whatever of December, it was right before Christmas. It was horrifying, the hate mail that one receives on Christmas. I received so many, beyond like just death threats, but so many lawyers emailing me saying, you're a disgrace to the legal profession. And I'm thinking to myself,
On that Tuesday, whatever that was, the 22nd or whatever of December, it was right before Christmas. It was horrifying, the hate mail that one receives on Christmas. I received so many, beyond like just death threats, but so many lawyers emailing me saying, you're a disgrace to the legal profession. And I'm thinking to myself,
you're a lawyer, you just tried, convicted, executed me without ever hearing from me, without affording me any due process or a right to confront my accuser, and you're accusing me of being the disgrace to the bar? You're the one who is circumventing all of these things that you were trained in law school. And that's effectively what Congress did as well.
you're a lawyer, you just tried, convicted, executed me without ever hearing from me, without affording me any due process or a right to confront my accuser, and you're accusing me of being the disgrace to the bar? You're the one who is circumventing all of these things that you were trained in law school. And that's effectively what Congress did as well.
you're a lawyer, you just tried, convicted, executed me without ever hearing from me, without affording me any due process or a right to confront my accuser, and you're accusing me of being the disgrace to the bar? You're the one who is circumventing all of these things that you were trained in law school. And that's effectively what Congress did as well.
It was a concerted effort to create a political narrative, and I was a very inconvenient truth to that. And the fact that the United States Congress, a legislative body, was able to marshal all of those resources in an unconstitutional way to destroy me, there's... I've been in practice a long time. I have a lot of very influential clients. I'm a relatively connected person.
It was a concerted effort to create a political narrative, and I was a very inconvenient truth to that. And the fact that the United States Congress, a legislative body, was able to marshal all of those resources in an unconstitutional way to destroy me, there's... I've been in practice a long time. I have a lot of very influential clients. I'm a relatively connected person.
It was a concerted effort to create a political narrative, and I was a very inconvenient truth to that. And the fact that the United States Congress, a legislative body, was able to marshal all of those resources in an unconstitutional way to destroy me, there's... I've been in practice a long time. I have a lot of very influential clients. I'm a relatively connected person.
If Congress can destroy me at a whim, they could do that to anyone. And nobody would want to live in a world where either a single member of Congress or a single committee of Congress could select
If Congress can destroy me at a whim, they could do that to anyone. And nobody would want to live in a world where either a single member of Congress or a single committee of Congress could select
If Congress can destroy me at a whim, they could do that to anyone. And nobody would want to live in a world where either a single member of Congress or a single committee of Congress could select