Posted on 08/23/2018 9:49:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Donald Trump's actions during the campaign -- possible conspiracy to accept help from a foreign national and to violate campaign-finance laws in order to hide two alleged extramarital affairs -- as well as his actions once he became president (e.g. possible obstruction of justice, witness-tampering) are at issue for special counsel Robert Mueller and for Congress in the context of impeachment.
For now, let's assume that Trump did nothing wrong during his presidency, that only his pre-election conduct is at issue. Most commentators have taken the view that Mueller cannot indict for criminal activity during Trump's presidency, although this is a matter of current Justice Department policy and not airtight law.
We've never been confronted with the situation where the means by which a candidate got elected allegedly violated the law. When he should arguably have never gotten to the presidency to enjoy temporary immunity, must the prosecutor refrain from criminal indictment? There is no definite answer. One could look at pre-election criminal conduct as no different from criminal conduct during the presidency (i.e., no indictment), or one could look at the pre-election conduct as a fraud on the electorate. In the latter case, one could argue that the president cannot use his ill-gotten gain (the presidency) as a shield to immediate prosecution.
To take this question to the extreme, what if a candidate killed his opponent?
Joshua Matz, co-author of "To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment," points out that indicting for pre-election conduct raises all sorts of practical problems, including proving that the criminality swung the election....
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>>If Trump broke the law to become president, can
Waaaa, we couldn’t get a sex scandal October Surprise, waaaa
were laws broken in leaking GW Bush’s decades old DWI arrest? That election eve leak cost him the popular vote in 2000.
were laws broken in the 2004 faxing and broadcast of forged national guard memos?
“If Trump broke the law to become president, can”
the goal is to call the entire Republican victory “unfair”, remove Trump, and declare Pence “illegitimate too”.
But we know, beyond any doubt, that Hitlery broke the law at least hundreds and perhaps thousand of times. There is no if to that. Why doesn’t the smelly smelly back hole Rubin write about that?
If this author knew what the hell they were talking about or had any verified evidence of wrong doing they would not have to use the word, “if” in the title.
This is hog carp just like the rest of the suggestive left wingers political propaganda.
They are posting what they want to be true and hoping it will sway others to believe in their political fantasies.
“If Obama broke the law to become president, can he still be indicted, impeached? If Hillary broke the law to run for president, can she be indicted, impeached?”
Yes, they both did. They both need to be impeached and then indicted for treason.
Re What if Rubin had two brain-cells to rub together?
More likely what kind of cell would she have? I suggest Syphllis of the Mind.
She is one nasty POS, along with the elderly and nutjob Ruth Marcus.
Her suggestion/comment that the DOJ policies now in place regarding indictment of a sitting president are basically new and temporary is pure bullshit. As Mark Levin noted, one was from about 1973 and the other 2002.
If my math class, that would mean they were 29 years old back then, and now are 15 years older and still in place.
As for Laurence Tribe, this guy is certifiably a leftwing loon. He exudes “hate” in nearly everything he writes against conservatives, the 2nd Amendment, and esp. Trump.
Think of how many minds he has poisoned in his career.
You also have other legal geniuses like Lanny Davis, who gives the term “sleazy bastard” a new meaning, along with Mike Avenatti and any New York AG.
IF we did an expose’ of how our law schools turned into leftist anti-American, anti-Constitution shithole, it would have to be printed in 10 volumes, each 1000 pages long.
Just stories about the number of Communists, Marxists, and far-left activists in law schools would take up 7 volumes of the 10. Harvard, Yale, NYU, Georgetown Un (yes, that one fine Jesuit school is now a center of both Marxism and extreme leftist Liberation Theology), Northwestern (remember Bernadine Dohrn worked there), Boston Un., John Jay College, Un. of Chicago (which has many fine professors despite the red ones), UCLA, etc.
Jennifer Rubin is to logical writing and law as Jeffrey Dahmer was to being a Cordon Bleu chef.
A waste of time to even have this discussion unless Barack Hussein Obama is indicted, arrested and sentenced to imprisonment for life. Or executed.
Can't be any series of crimes more deserving of the ultimate penalties than what this impostor perpetrated on the United States of America.
The African impostor set out to fundamentally transform (destroy) our Republic, and he almost succeeded.
I live in NJ. There isn’t a single conservative newspaper in this state. The three main liberal rags here are: The Star Ledger. The Asbury Park. The Times Of Trenton.
Typo, meant The Asbury Park Press. This one is particulally nasty. It’s owned by the Gannet news Organization.
More rotting garbage from the compost heap.
No one is talking about using ones foundation as a conduit for campaign money.
HEY STUPID LEFTYCOMMIEPIGS !!! STFU AND GO AWAY.
FAR, FAR , AWAY
I am writing an editorial about this.
The title is: “UnPerson Guilty of NonCrime”.
More FAKE news BS! Indict the corrupt Obama administration!
If Hillary and Barack broke the law while they were in office, can they be prosecuted?
She’s talking about breaking the law?
I agree.
What if a meteor struck DC and killed everyone except Trump and the WH staff?
‘Broke the law...?’
Prove it
Geez, folks, they have a guy out there pleading to non crimes. They make up whatever they have to to do whatever they want. They can do whatever they want. They will push this to a conclusion.
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