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jmowreader

(50,557 posts)
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 03:46 PM Mar 2017

I don't want Sessions to resign over Russia

If that happens, Trump will simply issue a preemptive pardon (like the one Ford gave Nixon) before jumping on a plane to Florida to grieve over the loss of his trusted advisor. Trump will then find someone even worse to replace Sessions.

Sessions needs to be taken into custody, impeached, removed from office, tried for the federal crime of perjury, and imprisoned. No double-jeopardy provisions apply since impeachment is simply a means of determining your fitness to remain in office, and its only penalty if successful is removal from that office. The odds that a Republican Congress will either entertain an impeachment hearing in the House or convict a Trump consigliere in the Senate are slim, but articles of impeachment MUST be filed on him. Our way of life depends on it.

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I don't want Sessions to resign over Russia (Original Post) jmowreader Mar 2017 OP
Since the items in your second paragraph will never happen, I'll happily take the resignation virtualobserver Mar 2017 #1
At least! Remember THIS? elleng Mar 2017 #2
how would your preferred outcome avoid a presidential pardon? mike_c Mar 2017 #3
Trump can pardon him at anytime...the best we can hope for is a resignation. Demsrule86 Mar 2017 #4
Resignation Phoenix61 Mar 2017 #5
I totally get where you're coming from .... LenaBaby61 Mar 2017 #6
I want a perp walk CanonRay Mar 2017 #7
 

virtualobserver

(8,760 posts)
1. Since the items in your second paragraph will never happen, I'll happily take the resignation
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 03:51 PM
Mar 2017

We might get someone better.

elleng

(130,902 posts)
2. At least! Remember THIS?
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 03:51 PM
Mar 2017

ALDERSON, W.Va. — Martha Stewart reported to prison early Friday to begin serving a five-month sentence for lying about a stock sale, the federal Bureau of Prisons said. Stewart, 63, was convicted in March of lying to investigators about why she sold ImClone stock in December 2001, just before the stock price plunged.Oct 8, 2004
Martha Stewart begins serving jail sentence - Business - Corporate ...

mike_c

(36,281 posts)
3. how would your preferred outcome avoid a presidential pardon?
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 03:56 PM
Mar 2017

Sessions will never be prosecuted for perjury. Resignation is the best we can hope for.

Demsrule86

(68,565 posts)
4. Trump can pardon him at anytime...the best we can hope for is a resignation.
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 03:58 PM
Mar 2017

I would not be surprised if he resigned tomorrow late in the afternoon.

LenaBaby61

(6,974 posts)
6. I totally get where you're coming from ....
Thu Mar 2, 2017, 04:19 PM
Mar 2017

But I'm NOT seeing resignation in the picture anywhere unfortunately. I'd GLADLY eat a whole crow (I'm not a meat eater) if kkk sessions resigns.

Also, Dems do not have the numbers to force the hand of thuglicans in the CONgress, and we see how sleazy they are and how they put party above country.

Honestly, I feel that we'll be lucky if the racist criminal recuses himself. That's all we have tbh.

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