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Re: If Trump Wasn't President, He'd Already Be Indicted |
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Posted by Dave on Sun Apr 28 06:29:06 2019, in response to Re: If Trump Wasn't President, He'd Already Be Indicted, posted by bingbong on Sun Apr 28 06:11:08 2019. Problem here is that not indicting a President is not law. It’s not even written policy IIRC.WABB! "In 1973, in the midst of the Watergate scandal engulfing President Richard Nixon, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel adopted in an internal memo the position that a sitting president cannot be indicted. The department reaffirmed the policy in a 2000 memo, saying court decisions in the intervening years had not changed its conclusion that a sitting president is “constitutionally immune” from indictment and criminal prosecution. It concluded that criminal charges against a president would “violate the constitutional separation of powers” delineating the authority of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the U.S. government. The 1973 and 2000 memos are binding on Justice Department employees, including Mueller, according to many legal experts." https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-indictment-explainer/can-a-sitting-us-president-face-criminal-charges-idUSKCN1QF1D3 |
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