REVEALED: Secret Clinton-era Ken Starr memo provides blueprint for indicting President Trump

[DonViejo]

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 president’s 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/

[lark]

1. LOL!

Love it when dastardly Repugs are hoisted on their own petard. We got you now asshole.

[unblock]

3. It's just an argument. If it comes to pass, the supremes (including gursuch) will decide

[DonViejo]

5. The argument "you can't indict a sitting President," was written by Watergate Prosecutor

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]

11. Someone on MSNBC last night brought this up.

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]

17. We now have two standards on the issue of indicting...

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]

2. If the U.S. makes it through this attempted coup...

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]

12. As to whether or not the GOP makes it will depend on

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]

4. Oh my

first it comes around......
then it goes around.......

then it bites you in the ass.

[paranoid floyd]

9. This

is an excellent summation.

[Gothmog]

6. This will be fun to watch

[truthisfreedom]

7. 45: "Pardon me? I mean, pardon me!"

[progressoid]

8. Ya, but this is different.

That was worse back then. It was a blowjob.

[DonViejo]

18. Back then, they were looking to criminally indict ...

the President and FLOTUS Hillary, for Whitewater, the death of Vince Foster, Travelgate and, for him, rape.

[usaf-vet]

10. Wouldn't it be totally ironic if a legal document written

to attack the Clintons were to become the foundation to charge Trump.

[Achilleaze]

13. this will PISS off the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

it's all about accountability, and honesty, and integrity - all the shit that latter-day republicans obviously hate

[gfwzig]

14. All the unethical tricks they pulled to impeach clinton will come home to roost!

[briv1016]

15. If irony where made of strawberries, we'd all be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.

[Justice]

16. I wonder if Kellyanne's husband was the author

[trueblue2007]

19. Trump .//////// LOCK HIM UP