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Yosemito

(648 posts) Wed Feb 27, 2019, 03:35 AM Feb 2019

Eric Holder just tweeted that a President CAN be indicted

He's a former DOJ chief. He should know.

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Eric Holder just tweeted that a President CAN be indicted (Original Post) Yosemito Feb 2019 OP

Damn right!! Now, do it!! InAbLuEsTaTe Feb 2019 #1

The entire family drumpf must go. democratisphere Feb 2019 #2

Please put littlemissmartypants Feb 2019 #3

The problem I see is that someone has to be the first one to step up and hold him accountable. pdsimdars Feb 2019 #4

Of course one CAN be, but short of homicide, the question is will the DOJ Maru Kitteh Feb 2019 #5

Impeachment instead of indictment Shoonra Feb 2019 #6

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,122 posts)

1. Damn right!! Now, do it!!

Reply to Yosemito (Original post)

Wed Feb 27, 2019, 03:40 AM

Feb 2019

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)

2. The entire family drumpf must go.

Reply to Yosemito (Original post)

Wed Feb 27, 2019, 04:35 AM

Feb 2019

Now.

littlemissmartypants

(22,656 posts)

3. Please put

Reply to Yosemito (Original post)

Wed Feb 27, 2019, 04:55 AM

Feb 2019

a bag over his head now!

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)

4. The problem I see is that someone has to be the first one to step up and hold him accountable.

Reply to Yosemito (Original post)

Wed Feb 27, 2019, 04:57 AM

Feb 2019

No one wants to be the first one to hold him to the law, to charge him. Who's going to step up and arrest him? No one has the nerve. It is unthinkable to them to be able to do that.

Maru Kitteh

(28,340 posts)

5. Of course one CAN be, but short of homicide, the question is will the DOJ

Reply to Yosemito (Original post)

Wed Feb 27, 2019, 05:48 AM

Feb 2019

be willing to override the current policy of abstaining from indictment. The SCOTUS has not weighed in on the subject, so it's just a policy exercise/question at this point.

Shoonra

(521 posts)

6. Impeachment instead of indictment

Reply to Yosemito (Original post)

Wed Feb 27, 2019, 05:50 AM

Feb 2019

It may well be possible to indict a sitting president but do we want an indicted president to continue to sit in the White House, running things and pushing buttons?

It seems to me that impeachment serves much the same purpose and is more immediately remedial - it removes an unworthy president from power and it functions at a speed partly controlled by the Congress.

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