Yes, a president can be indicted. And he can pardon himself.
The only ultimate Constitutional check on a president’s power is impeachment. Something that has been done far too rarely, largely because Congress’s sense of its own prerogatives has become overwhelmed by partisanship.
Well, it’s technically an unsettled question, but I seriously doubt that it would be viewed as a constitutional power. The pardon power is absolute within its limits, but there are limits.
It shows how screwed up things are that this keeps coming up. Heard it with Obama; now hearing it with Trump.
Actually, it’s been official DOJ policy since the 70s that a sitting president will not be indicted, that he must first be impeached and removed from office.
And what’s all this about there being nothing with which to charge President Trump. Obviously, he needs to be arrested under my new favorite charge: suspicion of intent to collude.
Martha Stewart!
When do we indict the media for its pointless and corrupt abuse of power? If not the media, how about those elected that abuse our tax dollars?
All they are doing is making the public angry. Do they imagine this has no cost? They are working furiously to make themselves irrelevant.
The special Alabama election to fill Mr. Sessions’s Senate seat isn’t until 12 December, but it is already too late for him to run to regain his own seat this year. The primary is on August 15 (with a runoff on September 26) and the filing deadline was back on May 17.
WA Post thinks Ted Cruz may become AG. It’s pretty clear that Sessions is toast but will not resign. Again Trump reveals who these people are. Sessions can’t go quick enough.
Cruz may actually do the job. Obama and Hillary have probably already got their stolen loot waiting in a non extradition country.
Yeah, but Obama gave the President the right to drone any American citizen anywhere in the world at any time.
Just on cost savings and expediency… ?
Is that the best place for Cruz? A Republican is likely to replace him but how long would it take?
If Cruz does the job that nobody else will, then absolutely yes. There’s only one AG.
I don’t think we have to worry about TX outside of Dallas/Houston.
But in the meantime, the margin in the Senate tips closer to the DNC/GOPe fusion party.
There are a lot of fires to stomp out with scarce resources.
I have said this a number of times but our system of government relies on ethical leaders not necessarily lawful ones. It is likely impossible to design a system that can’t be abused and such a system would likely be intolerable. Much better to have leaders that are ethical enough that we don’t need to war game out every conceivable scenario in which their power could be abused.
This certainly applies to Trump, Obama, or any other President but it also applies to Congress and our unelected government employees, especially the unelected government employees.
This is the social order problem addressed by Randy Barnett in “Structure of Liberty.” This will be the second chapter of my mars book because I think I have a workable solution.
Ha! Mo Brooks, one of the three Republican frontrunners in the Alabama special election for A.G. Sessions’s old Senate seat, is asking all the Republican candidates to collectively agree to simultaneously withdraw from the race (when/if Mr. Sessions is fired/resigns, I suppose), allowing the state Republican Party to nominate Mr. Sessions to run for his own old seat in the December 12 election. So I suppose it isn’t too late after all, and, given that the primary is expected to require a runoff on September 26, there is still time for it all to play out.