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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew Op Ed - NYT - "The President is Not Above the Law"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/15/opinion/editorials/president-above-rule-law.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-top-region®ion=opinion-c-col-top-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-top-regionThis great nation can tolerate a president who makes mistakes, declared Senator Orrin Hatch, the Utah Republican. But it cannot tolerate one who makes a mistake and then breaks the law to cover it up.
No, Mr. Hatch wasnt talking about Donald Trump. It was 1999, and he was talking about Bill Clinton.
At that time, the American system and the flawed yet sometimes heroic people their fellow Americans choose to lead them underwent, and passed, a hard test: The president, his financial dealings and his personal relationships were painstakingly investigated for years. Prosecutors ultimately accused Mr. Clinton of lying under oath, to cover up a sexual affair. The House of Representatives impeached him, but the Senate declined to convict, and Mr. Clinton stayed in office.
The public, which learned in detail about everything investigators believed Mr. Clinton had done wrong, overwhelmingly agreed with the judgment of the Senate. It was a sad and sordid and at times distracting business, but the system worked.
Snip - long Op Ed and worth reading (apologies to those who can't access it behind the pay wall)
last paragraph
But if the president does move against the investigators, it will be up to Congress to affirm the rule of law, the separation of powers and the American constitutional order. The miserable polarization and partisan anger that have been rising in American life for decades will hit a new crescendo, and that will present congressional Republicans with a heavy burden indeed.
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New Op Ed - NYT - "The President is Not Above the Law" (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Apr 2018
OP
If no "man" is above the law then why the fuck would that include the a real President of a fake one
Kirk Lover
Apr 2018
#1
Ummm ... what? Either I'm drunk or you might really need some editing there ;) (nt)
mr_lebowski
Apr 2018
#2
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)1. If no "man" is above the law then why the fuck would that include the a real President of a fake one
WHY is there a debate about this????????????
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)2. Ummm ... what? Either I'm drunk or you might really need some editing there ;) (nt)