Lawyers take on breaking campaign finance laws.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/28187/what-can-happen-if-the-us-president-has-violated-campaign-finan

If the President has actually violated campaign finance laws, what can happen? Does it even matter since he is already the US President?

Let's start with the most important point first:

A campaign finance violation is not a ground to remove an elected official from office, no matter how egregious, on its own, even if one could prove that the campaign finance violation probably caused the outcome of an election to change.

Congress could decide, however, that a campaign finance violation constitutes a "high crime or misdemeanor" for which a sitting President could be impeached, if a majority of the House of Representatives votes to impeach the President and a two-thirds majority of the U.S. Senate trying the impeachment under the supervision of the Chief Justice of the United States...

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the outset, there is some ambiguity over whether the violation of campaign finance laws would have been by individual person, or the political campaign of the individual person (which is a Section 529 non-profit organization).

The individual or the campaign, as the case might be, would definitely owe either civil or criminal fines, as the case might be, for a violation of the particular campaign finance laws that the individual or campaign is alleged to have violated. The violation could also affect the ability of the violator to obtain all or any amount of federal matching funds in a future election.

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[manor321]

1. Not just the crime, the obstruction

There is the actual crime, which was ongoing while he was President, plus the numerous attempts at obstruction of justice through many lies. He should be impeached and removed just for this.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. Oh hell ya. And today is just the things Mueller

said he could talk about.. although I wish there was more.

News at fault for trying to make today "all of it". This perpetuates the right wing thinking..."no big deal (legally) just a slap on wrist."