(05-04-2020 10:23 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(05-03-2020 03:14 PM)mrbig Wrote:  

(05-03-2020 09:43 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  IF the Democrats succeed in putting Biden in the WH, I wonder if they will refrain from any contact with foreign powers until January 20, 2021.

Or will they enforce the Democratic Double Standard, and do business as usual.

Is this really the standard that existed before Trump? I thought "contact" wasn't the problem but negotiating actual policy that was different than the current administration was a problem because such discussions are not authorized under law.

Yes, it is the standard that existed before Trump. See Reagan as an obvious and fairly well known example. I don't believe for a moment that this was the only time such a thing took place. How is the incoming administration adopting a different policy than it's predecessor not authorized by law? Heck, how is a member of an incoming administration (duly elected by law) a 'private citizen'? They should be able to negotiate anything they want.... but it can't take effect until they actually take office.

The application of that act is inarguably capricious enforcement of a previously almost never enforced law that only people who deal with such things probably knew about... and the comments we're reading seem to clearly imply that rather than inform him that he might be violating this relative unknown 'practice' that he clearly didn't know anything about... they used it to get leverage on him to pursue their 'other' investigation of collusion.

That's how you treat criminals, not decorated civil servants.

Because it creates confusion as to who is running the country.

The current admin, while lame duck, still runs the executive branch until the transition of power takes place during the inauguration. If you want an incoming admin to start acting and enacting policy, then make the transition of power the day after Election Day.