REVEALED: Secret Clinton-era Ken Starr memo provides blueprint for indicting President Trump
Source: RawStory
BOB BRIGHAM
22 JUL 2017 AT 12:08 ET
A Pulitzer Prize New York Times journalist used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain a 56-page legal memo which concludes a sitting President can be indicted.
The Times reports that the legal memo, amounts to the most thorough government-commissioned analysis rejecting a generally held view that presidents are immune from prosecution while in office.
Independent Counsel Ken Starr commissioned the 1998 memo, which was written by prominent conservative legal mind Ronald Rotunda.
It is proper, constitutional, and legal for a federal grand jury to indict a sitting president for serious criminal acts that are not part of, and are contrary to, the presidents official duties, the memo concludes. In this country, no one, even President Clinton, is above the law.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/revealed-secret-clinton-era-ken-starr-memo-provides-blueprint-for-indicting-president-trump/
Love it when dastardly Repugs are hoisted on their own petard. We got you now asshole.
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(52,317 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Leon Jaworski, a Democrat. That's what the "don't impeach Trump" crowd has been using to say you can't indict Trumpty Dumpty. Nixon did become an unindicted Watergate conspirator based on Jaworski's ruling.
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)The guest said that Jaworski said that but it isn't an actual law, it's only something that was said and applied/used in the Watergate scandal. They implied that it wouldn't necessarily be valid now for whatever reason. All of the legal talk is not my area of expertise so I don't understand what applies, what doesn't, what is valid in this new situation, etc. I think that is one of the problems. This isn't exactly like Watergate so assuming the same rules apply now isn't guaranteed.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)a President; Jaworski's standard of "no can do" and Starr's "you sure can." It will be interesting to see which standard the Republicans and their flying monkey brigade align with. And whether Trump rejects the chosen standard, pushing the decision into the Court.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)I don't think any president will make it through 4 years without being put through legal battles.
The GOP is going to be angry. But hopefully, the GOP won't make it, after heading down this traitorous road they've decided to take.
Doitnow
(1,103 posts)voting suppression succeeding so that Rethugs continue in office, or---Dump decides things are so bad that he has to declare martial law and no voting will happen. Somebody please tell me these things won't happen.
If we don't have a true vote, we will have NOTHING.
Rural_Progressive
(1,107 posts)first it comes around......
then it goes around.......
then it bites you in the ass.
paranoid floyd
(254 posts)is an excellent summation.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,154 posts)progressoid
(49,999 posts)That was worse back then. It was a blowjob.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)the President and FLOTUS Hillary, for Whitewater, the death of Vince Foster, Travelgate and, for him, rape.
usaf-vet
(6,207 posts)to attack the Clintons were to become the foundation to charge Trump.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)it's all about accountability, and honesty, and integrity - all the shit that latter-day republicans obviously hate