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coti

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4. I know that being able to do LITERALLY WHATEVER I WANT, with no legal recourse whatsoever for

Reply to coti (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 18, 2019, 05:57 PM

Apr 2019

our society- nobody being able to stop me at all from shooting someone on 5th Ave, as Trump likes to say- seems like an awful lot of freedom, but it's clear that with all these CRAZY entanglements and inconveniences that would result from my life being disrupted, it's just a sacrifice we're all going to have to make. And that will have to go for all the other people with kids, and brain surgeons, too. I don't even know how we've gone this long, allowing parents and good doctors to be thrown in jail. The Founding Fathers were totally out to lunch on this one!

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No, seriously- the argument that a President shouldn't be indict-able is completely ridiculous. [View all] coti Apr 2019 OP

Hey, I've got kids. That's a lot of responsibility, you know? coti Apr 2019 #1

I know that being able to do LITERALLY WHATEVER I WANT, with no legal recourse whatsoever for coti Apr 2019 #4

It does seem short-sighted of the DoJ that one, and only one, person in our country, based on their coti Apr 2019 #6

Unfortunately, the DoJ already made their policy clear with Agnew that VP's are totally indictable. coti Apr 2019 #8

Speaking of Presidents dying, it also seems like when that happens, they could have some difficulty coti Apr 2019 #9

Add this to the list of laws to pass when we regain trifecta control, if a Dem Pres would sign it. LonePirate Apr 2019 #2

It's Not A Law ProfessorGAC Apr 2019 #3

That is not sufficient. Any President could simply reinstate the rule. That's why we need a law. LonePirate Apr 2019 #5

I agree, Congress needs to do the fixing of this nt coti Apr 2019 #7

kick coti Apr 2019 #10