Posted on 01/31/2016 5:09:29 AM PST by Salman
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay stirred rumors last Monday when he told Newsmax his friends at the FBI are ready to indict presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified information over a private insecure server while Secretary of State.
Whether the FBI is going to indict her—or if Delay even has friends—isn't known for sure. What we do know is that the State Department is withholding seven email chains from public release due to "top secret" content.
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Of course.
What dirty, little secrets did that rat-bastard, Sid Blumenthal dig up on Barack?
I don’t know if she can pardon herself. This I do know: she and bill have been a walking constitutional crisis for over 25 years.
The president can pardon anyone, including himself/herself; except that he cannot pardon (undo) an impeachment.
So, the answer is, Yes, Hillary could pardon herself.
Yes, she can pardon herself. However Congress can impeach and sentence her despite any such pardon. So a presidential pardon wouldn’t protect her. A lack of Congressional spine would.
Pardon yourself you’ll go blind.
If so, we’d still be stuck with her totalitarian VP.
Yes, it can. Congress (the Senate) cannot sentence her to anything beyond loss of office, though. The question is whether she can benefit from self pardon to the extent of preventing herself being tried in a court of law. Some pre and post things here.
I don’t think it is possible, unless you think President is basically above the law. Those who arguing that only Congress could remove him is saying he is above the law, but not above congress
Do they pardon indictments? I thought they had to be convicted by a court first?
Who would the Hildabeast pick for impeachment insurance?
Impeachment cannot "sentence" her.
The Constitution, Article I, Section 3:Now, is she had pardoned herself prior to impeachment, they could remove her from office (good luck with that, based on the Bill Clinton impeachment), but the Justice Dept could not thereafter prosecute her.The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
Judgment in Cases of Impeachments shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust, or Profit under the United States, but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment, and Punishmnet, according to Law.
She pardons herself and no one does anything about it? Raise a Militia, summon her, if she fails to respond, go get her. then hold a Court Martial. It’s simple, really
and fun.
The POTUS has unlimited power to pardon for federal offenses, even for themselves. However, they cannot pardon themselves from impeachable offenses.
Impeachment is a weak point in the constitution. Far too much is expected of it, as far as policing the POTUS, and it is far too difficult to carry out. After Marbury v. Madison (1810), the president made clear that while the SCOTUS can stop him from doing some things, they cannot make him *do* things.
And since that time, presidents have connived to be able to do things the SCOTUS cannot stop.
She is so arrogant, she will not even try to pardon herself!
more to the point, will she be alive to pardon herself?
She could never be impeached or convicted, just likein the 1999 case of Mr. Bill. I believe that the American people will flock to Mrs. Bill on November 8.
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