For criminal matters, impeachment is the Constitutional means to address them.
After this confirmation, it won't be long until we do it all again!
Posted on 07/10/2018 11:59:10 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
While Brett Kavanaugh’s stances on issues like abortion and gun rights could dominate his confirmation hearing, the Supreme Court nominee’s decade-old call to shield presidents from criminal investigation has grabbed his critics' attention right out of the gate.
Kavanaugh, a judge for the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., tackled the issue in a 2009 article in the Minnesota Law Review.
At the time, he wrote it is “vital that the President be able to focus on his never-ending tasks with as few distractions as possible” and suggested Congress enact a law deferring all civil and criminal suits against a president while in office.
“Congress might consider a law exempting a President—while in office—from criminal prosecution and investigation, including from questioning by criminal prosecutors or defense counsel,” Kavanaugh wrote in the journal. “The indictment and trial of a sitting President, moreover, would cripple the federal government, rendering it unable to function with credibility in either the international or domestic arenas.”
These words have gained new relevance amid the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling and potential collusion with President Trump's 2016 campaign. While the president has denied wrongdoing and blasted the probe all along as a "witch hunt," Democrats seized on the article as another reason to oppose Trump's nominee to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy.
“He has said the president shouldn’t be investigated,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said of Kavanaugh on MSNBC. “How is he going to react if [Special Counsel Robert] Mueller needs a subpoena, if Mueller needs some other action?”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., also voiced concern about Kavanaugh’s writing in a tweet Monday night, saying the judge “thinks Presidents like Trump are above the law.”
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I agree with Kavanaugh.
I think the left is still gravitating over Hitlery’s moronic idea that the President Nixon shouldn’t be allowed a lawyer during the Watergate mess.
Good post.
I was about to say the same thing but you beat me to it. If a president is subject to an activist judiciary or rouge prosecution he is in effect negated in his powers. Thus he should only be subject to impeachment for malfeasance of office. This is the venue of congress alone.
For criminal matters, impeachment is the Constitutional means to address them.
After this confirmation, it won't be long until we do it all again!
...a sunny cloudless low humidity day off will rile a dem....
he wrote this when odumbo was president btw so I guess he’s a psychic if he did it to protect trump.
She must be referring to Obama.
Libs aren’t part of us....they insane, satanic globalists hellbent on the destruction of our country.
It makes sense on a practical basis to shield the President from certain types of minor legal actions *while he’s in office*.He’s right to observe that impeachment is available to deal with anything resembling a matter of serious misconduct.
1. Bubba would not be subject to prosecution (civil) for anything that occurred during his time in office. 2. He would lose his Arkansas License for 5 years 3. He can never practice before the Supreme Court. 4.?????
Remember...Bubba was impeached...but was not removed...
So now I go ahead to Comey and see what occurred with Bubba as the model for Comey's decision on Hillary.
Is that what the tarmac meeting was about?? That's the only thing that makes sense.
Doesn’t take a genius to know why. The President needs to be able to act unencumbered.
Democrats want to cripple the presidency for political reasons.
Trump hasn’t been accused of committing a crime, yet he’s being investigated for an act Mueller can’t even prove occurred.
The Deep State witch-hunt he heads is nothing less than attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election.
We need such a law in place to allow the President to fulfill his official responsibilities without getting distracted by legal issues that take away his attention, energy and time to run the country.
Kavanaugh makes a good case of not saddling the President with probes into his conduct.
The remedy for presidential misconduct remains impeachment.
Yeah when the left stops at NOTHING to cheat, lie and corrupt their will upon the people,
When they demonstrate for nearly a hundred years that they cheat and even murder..
You have to protect yourself against it.
Mueller will produce a report. If he wants to indict the President (tough to do without any evidence), he can only recommend and then the DOJ cannot prosecute the President. Only the Senate can do this and only when the House pass articles of impeachment.
This is all aimed at the rabid Democrats in a desperate effort to keep them fired up through the confirmation process. The rest of us will grow weary of this nonsense and will solidify the votes to confirm him. This will also help with the mid term election.
Only if the Judiciary are a bunch of idiots or are the ones that want to cripple the government.
It’s called impeachment. We don’t inundate our president with frivolous legal claims while in office. Why is this not easy to understand?
Cory Booker, Blumenthal etc are totally ignorant.
Probably why Trump chose him over the others. The continuing meltdown over the Mueller fiasco just helps him in the polls.
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