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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSessions argued in Clinton impeachment that presidents can obstruct justice
Trumps personal lawyer argued Monday that the president cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer
and has every right to express his view of any case.
By KYLE CHENEY 12/04/2017 03:43 PM EST
President Donald Trumps personal lawyer argued Monday that, as the nominal head of federal law enforcement, the president is legally unable to obstruct justice. But the exact opposite view was once argued by another senior Trump lawyer: Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
In 1999, Sessions then an Alabama senator laid out an impassioned case for President Bill Clinton to be removed from office based on the argument that Clinton obstructed justice amid the investigation into his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
The facts are disturbing and compelling on the President's intent to obstruct justice, he said, according to remarks in the congressional record.
Sessions isnt alone. More than 40 current GOP members of Congress voted for the impeachment or removal of Clinton from office for obstruction of justice. They include Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who mounted his own passionate appeal to remove Clinton from office for obstruction of justice Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, who was a House member at the time.
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BigmanPigman
(51,615 posts)bench scientist
(1,107 posts)No sitting a President has ever been charged in a criminal case. No precedent case law exists but argument can be made for and against.
Mueller knows this. Obstruction of justice will not be the only charge filed. Moreover , I bet Trump will be charged with state offenses as well.
ffr
(22,671 posts)And it's suffocating.