Reply to Resignation, Impeachment, or Mortality?

Forum Index » Political Discussion

Reply to "Resignation, Impeachment, or Mortality?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
No, he won't resign and he'll seek reelection, because he knows as soon as he's not President, he will be indicted.

Which brings us to the main issue here - why should there be a DOJ policy that the President cannot be charged with a crime? Surely there must be a limit to that. I'm afraid, though, that with a Trump appointee as AG, that rule will not be re-examined.

I think they’ll revisit that policy once President Treason is shown.[/quote]

I think they've already revisited that policy but haven't publicized the fact.  Taken to its logical extreme---it's a lousy policy:  is DOJ really willing to say that if the president strangled his wife, then no one could do anything until either his term was over or Congress impeached him.? The refusal of the Republican congress to hold Trump accountable for anything over the last two years has demonstrated the fallacy of that policy, which was predicated on the belief that if a president had really committed indictable crimes, a responsible legislative branch would remove him. 
 I have believed for some time, and still believe, that the Trump presidency could very well result in the Supreme Court having to rule on two questions: 
 (1) can a sitting president be indicted for a crime and
 (2) does the presidential pardon power extend to matters in which the president is a co-conspirator.

And given the way Jeff Sessions was continuously berated and humiliated by Trump over the last 18 months, it would be poetic justice if Sessions had jettisoned that policy privately while Trump was eviscerating him publicly.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics