Trump lawyers argue the President cannot be criminally investigated ("This isn't how innocent people behave" part billion)
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Trump lawyers argue the President cannot be criminally investigated ("This isn't how innocent people behave" part billion)
Lawyers for President Trump argued in a lawsuit filed on Thursday that he could not be criminally investigated while in office, as they sought to block a subpoena from state prosecutors in Manhattan demanding eight years of his tax returns.
Taking a broad position that the lawyers acknowledged had not been tested, the president’s legal team argued in the complaint that the Constitution effectively makes sitting presidents immune from all criminal inquiries until they leave the White House.
Presidents, they asserted, have such enormous responsibility and play a unique role in government that they cannot be subject to the burden of investigations, especially from local prosecutors who may use the criminal process for political gain.
Several constitutional law scholars interviewed by The New York Times said that if the lawyers’ position were accepted by the court, it would set a sweeping new precedent.
But they also said it was far from certain that the theory, which was not based on established case law, would succeed. While an onslaught of investigations would most assuredly disrupt a presidency, the Constitution does not explicitly say that presidents are shielded from criminal inquiries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/nyregion/trump-tax-returns-lawsuit.html
Re: Trump lawyers argue the President cannot be criminally investigated ("This isn't how innocent people behave" part billion)
His real tactic is to stall. He thinks if we move into the election cycle the public will be distracted.
RW'ers use the 'dumb public' (as in, how dumb do they think we are??) tactic a lot.
RW'ers use the 'dumb public' (as in, how dumb do they think we are??) tactic a lot.
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Re: Trump lawyers argue the President cannot be criminally investigated ("This isn't how innocent people behave" part billion)
@ title: "Trump lawyers argue the President cannot be criminally investigated"
Really???
Dang!!! Nixon was criminally investigated- clearly his lawyers forgot to use this rock solid alibi /\ /\ which could have easily saved him - dontcha hate it when that happens?
(The watergate scandal happened when I was in primary school. Some members on here weren't even born yet lol)
Really???
Dang!!! Nixon was criminally investigated- clearly his lawyers forgot to use this rock solid alibi /\ /\ which could have easily saved him - dontcha hate it when that happens?
(The watergate scandal happened when I was in primary school. Some members on here weren't even born yet lol)
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Re: Trump lawyers argue the President cannot be criminally investigated ("This isn't how innocent people behave" part billion)
And some members were really, really old even way back then!Jules wrote:@ title: "Trump lawyers argue the President cannot be criminally investigated"
Really???
Dang!!! Nixon was criminally investigated- clearly his lawyers forgot to use this rock solid alibi /\ /\ which could have easily saved him - dontcha hate it when that happens?
(The watergate scandal happened when I was in primary school. Some members on here weren't even born yet lol)
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Re: Trump lawyers argue the President cannot be criminally investigated ("This isn't how innocent people behave" part billion)
Instead of Trump fixating on Biden's son, he should look closer at how much his own kids profiteer off daddy's name & presidential status.
No one voted for Ivanka but she always parks her pert ass at all pappa's presidential meetings with overseas businessmen, making priceless international contacts that will benefit her private business empire directly. The Trump sons are not backward in coming forward either, to avail themselves of all the benefits & perks of having pappa as POTUS including the luxury freebies on airforce 1 -while lesser mortals slum it on cramped airplanes.
Leave Biden's son alone!
No one voted for Ivanka but she always parks her pert ass at all pappa's presidential meetings with overseas businessmen, making priceless international contacts that will benefit her private business empire directly. The Trump sons are not backward in coming forward either, to avail themselves of all the benefits & perks of having pappa as POTUS including the luxury freebies on airforce 1 -while lesser mortals slum it on cramped airplanes.
Leave Biden's son alone!
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