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To: Pearls Before Swine

Just because the President can pardon himself does not mean he can’t be indicted. There’s nothing else in the Constitution that comes anywhere close to forbidding it. It’s absurd to interpret the Constitution as creating a class of nobility that’s above the law.


20 posted on 05/16/2018 7:14:54 PM PDT by sourcery (Non Aquiesco: "I do not consent" (Latin))
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To: sourcery

Incorrect. A sitting president cannot be indicted. That would require the people who are his subordinates to prosecute him and that was not allowed in the constitution.
The effective remedy the founders provided was impeachment.


22 posted on 05/16/2018 7:22:00 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: sourcery
Just because the President can pardon himself does not mean he can’t be indicted. There’s nothing else in the Constitution that comes anywhere close to forbidding it. It’s absurd to interpret the Constitution as creating a class of nobility that’s above the law.

That's where I'm at.

25 posted on 05/16/2018 7:41:52 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: sourcery
Just because the President can pardon himself does not mean he can’t be indicted. There’s nothing else in the Constitution that comes anywhere close to forbidding it.

Show me in the Constitution where a subordinate in the executive branch has the power to indict his superior. Who does that subordinate answer to, if not the chief executive.

It’s absurd to interpret the Constitution as creating a class of nobility that’s above the law.

You're setting up a straw man fallacy. Nobody is saying that the president is above the law. The president can be impeached, removed and then indicted.

27 posted on 05/16/2018 7:49:53 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: sourcery

That’s the reason why we have elections every 4 years and congress as an impeachment check. Too much skullduggery can happen when you allow extra-constitutional checks on the POTUS by un-elected bureaucrats and the like...See Mueller and crew.


34 posted on 05/16/2018 8:14:55 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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