Posted on 04/09/2018 10:00:11 AM PDT by mandaladon
Sunday on her weekend morning program, MSNBC's Joy Reid seriously discussed a situation where President Trump refused a subpoena and would have to be arrested and put in jail until he testified before a grand jury. Reid envisioned a scenario of a White House besieged by federal marshals who would wait for Trump to give the Secret Service a stand down order so he could be taken into custody.
"Let's say that Donald Trump decides he doesn't want to give an interview with Mueller, but Mueller says 'Oh, but you will.' And he's subpoenaed to [be] interview[ed] [by] Robert Mueller. And Donald Trump simply says, 'I don't recognize that subpoena.' This is a president whose behavior is different as president of the United States. He doesn't follow convention. Who would force him to comply with the subpoena ordering him to do an interview with Robert Mueller?" Reid asked.
"It would be a federal court judge," former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said.
"How would they enforce it?" she asked.
"Normally, a person who refuses to testify before a grand jury winds up being incarcerated for the time period of the grand jury which can be up to 18 months," Akerman said. "So, one way to enforce it is to have Donald Trump taken by the federal marshals and put into federal prison until he testifies."
"What if he refuses to open the White House door?" Reid asked, seriously. "What if he fires any Secret Service agent who would allow the federal marshals in? What if Donald Trump simply decides I don't have to follow the law? 'I refuse to be held under the law. No marshal can get into this White House and any Secret Service agent who defies me is fired.'"
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
I read in middle school that President Abraham Lincoln liked to drive his light buggy through Washington streets as fast as a pair of horses could draw it. It was his way of relaxing from leading the War Between the States.
Even then there were mounted police enforcing speed limits. Lincoln was stopped several times but because he was President they could not detain him, under the key phrase “unless a President submits voluntarily, he cannot be arrested”.
This is one of the fidiot retards who we allow to moderate debates. What a delusional moron.
What if Congress subpoenaed documents from the FBI but those in charge simply refused?
Oh, wait. We don’t have to wonder “what if?” It has already happened.
Congress is preparing Contempt charges. Someone needs to lose his or her job and pension.
How do these people get on TV?
How long til the left have their very own democratic Jonestown?
You mean diaper.
Glad I could help
“...look at DAT shinny thang”....
...Doubt it...
Ruined my appetite too.
Awww. I feel terrible. I would like to apologize. But I can’t.
Joy who?
Kind of like Hillary Clinton.
They count on us to be nice, obey whatever they tell us to do, and never fight back. Most of us will do that, so they win. They are calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment, removing our president, and bringing the California Model of dictatorship nationwide.
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