To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
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What if Sullivan, hoping to force Trump to pardon or commute before the election, proceeds to sentence Flynn? --
Different thread, see post 104.
I'm not sure POTUS can pardon a court-initiated criminal contempt. Separation of powers. Each branch has some inherent power (Congress can jail for contempt, courts can jail for contempt) that other branches can't step on. POTUS pardon power is for CRIMES, and despite it's misleading name, criminal contempt is not a crime.
65 posted on
07/30/2020 6:08:52 PM PDT by
Cboldt
To: Cboldt
"court-initiated"?
Judge Sullivan is the one in CONTEMPT for completely ignoring the DOJ's dropping of all charges.
73 posted on
07/30/2020 8:06:43 PM PDT by
CivilWarBrewing
(Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
To: Cboldt
I’m not sure POTUS can pardon a court-initiated criminal contempt. Separation of powers. Each branch has some inherent power (Congress can jail for contempt, courts can jail for contempt) that other branches can’t step on. POTUS pardon power is for CRIMES, and despite it’s misleading name, criminal contempt is not a crime.
In this case it is, however rather like the court adding additional punishment beyond the crime for which they were convicted every time a defendant pled not-guilty and was found not-not-guilty.
95 posted on
07/31/2020 9:41:23 AM PDT by
lepton
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