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    @mono:

    Continuing here, because I don't want to write a series of notes.

    Look at it another way:

    What were to happen if someone in the proceedings' audience were to continually heckle and interrupt the hearing with loud running off at the mouth? It wouldn't take long for that person to be removed from the room — at best. At worst — depending on how they were heckling and interrupting — they might be charged with something like obstruction or contempt (conjecture on my part, I'm not that intimiately familiar with the US's laws).

    Case study — Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing:

    http://www.nbc26.com/news/nation…

    'At least three people, including two men and a woman, were removed from the room by security as they continued to shout.

    Those people weren't the only protestors present at Sessions' hearing. Two other men who were dressed in Ku Klux Klan garb were also removed from the proceedings.'

    Now ... Trump's live tweeting will be the digital functional equivalent of the loud heckler in the room, action designed to disrupt proceedings.

    The problem here is that we're not dealing with a couple of protesters dressed up in white bed sheets taking the piss out of Jeff Sessions; we're talking about the head of state of a country.

    It seems to me that his live-tweeting could — and should — be construed as a form of obstruction, and should actually be dealt with accordingly. At bare minimum by ensuring he can't live tweet at all, to allow the institution of the congressional hearing to prosecute its business without hindrance and undue influence from the subject of the hearing.

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    • Urgh. Pardon the shit grammar and spelling.
      *what would happen
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    • Jeez, it's not like there's an Amazon echo in the room live reading his tweets out loud. :)monospaced
    • also +1, no president should act like this, that was my point originally ... i just thought the more he makes an ass of himself, the better somehowmonospaced
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