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Health Care Tax Reform Dodd Frank nothing but every Senator can have a weekly Reality Show and fire up the Nuts so someone else can be shot


64 posted on 06/20/2017 12:07:49 PM PDT by scooby321 (o even lower)
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The Department of Justice addressed this in a memorandum by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in 1973. That memo said that prosecution of a sitting President would undermine the power of the executive branch and its ability to function. In 2000, a new memo reviewed that determination and agreed.

“The framers implicitly immunized a sitting president from ordinary criminal prosecution,” Akhil Reed Amar, a law professor at Yale recently commented. “If you’re going to undo a national election, the body that does that should have a national mandate,” he continued. DOJ Website

65 posted on 06/20/2017 12:11:16 PM PDT by scooby321 (o even lower)
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