Our country’s history points to an understanding that former Presidents are answerable to the law

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  • Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
  • "Our country’s history also points to an established understanding, shared by both Presidents and the Justice Department, that former Presidents are answerable to the criminal law for their official acts.
    After the Watergate tapes revealed President Nixon’s misuse of official power to obstruct the FBI’s investigation of the Watergate burglary, President Ford pardoned Nixon. Both Ford’s pardon and Nixon’s acceptance of the pardon necessarily “rested on the understanding that the former President faced potential criminal liability.”
    Subsequent special counsel and independent counsel investigations have also operated on the assumption that the Government can criminally prosecute former Presidents for their official acts, where they violate the criminal law.
    Indeed, Trump’s own lawyers during his second impeachment trial assured Senators that declining to impeach Trump for his conduct related to January 6 would not leave him “in any way above the law.""
    They insisted that a former President “is like any other citizen and can be tried in a court of law.”
    That is from the dissenting opinion from the Supreme Court's Presidential Immunity ruling.
    It's not something that should move through the news cycle and then be forgotten about.
    It's an incredibly harmful decision and responsibility for it lies at the feet of republicans.
    It's incredibly important that they do not win the presidency or control of the house or senate … ever again when it comes right down to it. And I am not saying that as a Democrat.

Комментарии • 2

  • @jodyhall8731
    @jodyhall8731 Месяц назад +1

    It's corruption 💙

  • @Deljron777
    @Deljron777 Месяц назад

    This is good news hopefully they can get Joe Biden for all his corruption.