Correct me if I'm wrong but (Reply #10)

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Fri Sep 20, 2019, 05:15 PM

yonder (7,665 posts)

10. Correct me if I'm wrong but

there are currently no codified laws preventing the president from being indicted, right?

It's my understanding that its a matter of a previous Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel adopting a position that a sitting president cannot be indicted because of some sort of memo process which was reaffirmed in 2000. What is sacrosanct about a memo which describes a policy? What has kept any previous Justice Dept. (certainly not this Barr led one) from changing that policy as they see fit?

I agree that we need some sort of law to ensure that even a president can be indicted but I don't see why a normal Justice Dept. is hung up on what is essentially a policy.

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33 replies	Author	Time	Post
NPR reporting as of the last 2 hours that Pelosi has not changed her position on impeachment [View all]	Maven	Sep 2019	OP
Blah, blah, blah.	grumpyduck	Sep 2019	#1
New Wall Street Journal Story	ritapria	Sep 2019	#2
Hmmmmm, Bribery	njhoneybadger	Sep 2019	#3
Post removed	Post removed	Sep 2019	#4
Legislation that would have to go through the senate and even if it did pass there	standingtall	Sep 2019	#5
Give her 24 hrs. Things are breaking FAST on this fine Friday... n/t	Dennis Donovan	Sep 2019	#6
I have to believe	MontanaMama	Sep 2019	#7
yes, to not impeach, as she simply doesn't have the votes	Celerity	Sep 2019	#11
Way past worrying about votes in senate...	pbmus	Sep 2019	#12
No, she does not have the votes in the HOUSE	Celerity	Sep 2019	#14
That will happen...if she calls for it...if not we are all screwed	pbmus	Sep 2019	#15
what will happen? That all of them will switch to impeach? Good luck with that.	Celerity	Sep 2019	#20
Then we are truly screwed if Democrats cannot impeach because our majority	pbmus	Sep 2019	#21
I agree. I am NOT in favour of what these blockers are doing. I think it sets a disastrous	Celerity	Sep 2019	#22
We are abdicating by not impeaching , NOW	pbmus	Sep 2019	#24
welcome to the current RW-skewed electoral paradigm (due to decades of RW gerrymandering and	Celerity	Sep 2019	#25
JC...OMG...time for the street..	pbmus	Sep 2019	#29
You know I often try to build support for something by not publicly supporting it	Maven	Sep 2019	#18
It's called leadership	BeyondGeography	Sep 2019	#28
No words.	cwydro	Sep 2019	#8
What will imperil democracy is if the Democrats do not impeach this...	pbmus	Sep 2019	#9
Correct me if I'm wrong but	yonder	Sep 2019	#10
The President can just fire every prosecutor until he gets to one who won't prosecute him	Arazi	Sep 2019	#13
When congress abdicates their constitutional duties	MyNameGoesHere	Sep 2019	#16
How should patriots carry out justice?	sarisataka	Sep 2019	#19
+10000	Celerity	Sep 2019	#23
There are numerous ways	MyNameGoesHere	Sep 2019	#27
History is pretty broad	sarisataka	Sep 2019	#32
Yeah	MyNameGoesHere	Sep 2019	#33
It must really make her mad to be repeatedly asked!	Kid Berwyn	Sep 2019	#17
If this "Whistle Blower" story...	Mike Nelson	Sep 2019	#26
We already have a means for dealing with a president who breaks the law	Docreed2003	Sep 2019	#30
History will show	dkhbrit	Sep 2019	#31

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