Posted on 11/06/2024 1:40:04 PM PST by conservative98
ALL CASES AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP MUST EITHER BE DROPPED BY PROSECUTORS OR DISMISSED BY THE RELEVANT COURTS
For half a century, it has been the position of Democrat and Republican administrations, that the DOJ cannot indict a sitting president. This position has been justified for a myriad of reasons, all of which come down to the fact, that the president is the head of the executive branch, and unelected prosecutors, juries, and judges cannot exercise a power that makes it impossible for a president to carry out his constitutional duties while defending his liberty and reputation in a courtroom. To allow such a procedure would be to do permanent damage to the constitutional construct of our government and set a precedent that could not be reversed -- that is, prosecutors indicting a sitting president for infinite reasons that destroy the purpose of functioning of the office.
The issue has come up as to whether the same principles of non-prosecution would apply where the charges would be brought by a state or locality. After all, it has been argued, the DOJ's jurisdiction is federal not state. Of course, that is simply wrong -- that is, there are thousands of DA's and state AG's who, if not prevented from bringing charges against a sitting president would empower politically motivated, often elected prosecutors to do untold damage to the republic, e.g., Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. Moreover, localities and states do not have a sort of reverse federalism authority to bring local or state charges against the president who is federally elected. In other words, there's even more of reason to disallow such criminal actions outside of the federal construct.
Therefore, not only should the courts in New York and Georgia, upon motions by the president's lawyers, dismiss the cases with prejudice, but if the state courts refuse to do so, the president's lawyers should seek dismissal in federal court of the cases. The federal jurisdiction is beyond debate. Additionally, the president would retain the plenary power to dismiss those state actions himself if the federal court does not act for the same reasons set forth in the DOJ legal memoranda of long-standing. In short, no locality or state has the power to cripple the federal constitutional office of the presidency, diminish the standing and authority of the president, not to mention undo the national election that resulted in his swearing in.
They plan to pursue Trump in the courts. Listen to Kamala’s “concession “ speech.
The DOJ is not suppose to control what the NY State AG does in prosecuting NY laws. We know that a federal DOJ official took a job with the state of NY just to be able to go after Trump, but the theory is that the feds do not control State run prosecution.
I say that his federal rights to due process and equal protection were abrogated by NYS when they weaponized common misdemeanor banking laws and made them multiple count felonies. Something they’d never ever done before.
I think Letitia is talking about the Engoron case of Trump supposedly overvaluing his properties for a bank loan. She wants to seize Trump Tower. The State of New York presumably will do whatever it can to help her.
And he needs to pardon himself and anyone remotely associated with those cases. They are willing to wait 4 years and start them up again when he leaves office.
A state or city AG is not supposed to bring false charges against someone.
Someone needs to stand up to the in-you-face law breaking of these petty tyrants.
The Feds had no problem going after Alabama and Mississippi AGs during the Civil Rights era.
Yes
James is about to get Trump Struck
I can’t believe that the political leaders in New York don’t realize that this TDS woman is costing them in further business expansion and loss in their tax base!
Surely someone in his rarefied intellectual circle (/sarc) will advise him that a new United States Attorney General and Department of Justice is about to take office in January, 2025. Perhaps he'd like to think ahead just a little before another of his emotionally self-satisfying but politically reactionary pronunciamentos.
Levin for Attorney General, 2025!
She is surfin' a high tide of DEI. May she get sand in the crotch of her bathing suit when she wipes out.
NO!!!
Then they will just claim he ‘got away with it’
Let them proceed through appeal, and when he wins on appeal SANCTION THEM FOR MALICIOUS PROSECUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These attorneys need to be DISBARRED for this.
The DOJ brings suit against states for various issues, however, such as its recent suit against the Commonwealth of Virginia for trying to purge its voter rolls of illegals.
Conservatives have been asleep at the wheel for years as this rule by activist judges has built to the current crescendo of specious lawfare against a political rival. When gay marriage was the topic of dispute back in the Clinton admin, 30 states eventually passed laws defining marriage as being between one man and one woman. Activist judges overturned the will of the people in state after state, paving the way for SCOTUS' gay marriage error in 2015 and the obscenely inhumane laws on the books in many states now mandating the mutilation of children, sanctioning the extermination of late-term babies and even procedural excuses for the deaths of born-alive infants and elderly patients.
And yes “Conservatives have been asleep at the wheel for years as this rule by activist judges has built to the current crescendo of specious lawfare against a political rival..”
Hopefully, we are beginning to see a more strict interpretation of the Constitution coming out of the US Supreme Court. Since Trump will be able to appoint soon 100 or more new federal judges, I hope those appointments will not be activist, but more conservative in their reading of the Constitution.
One would hope, but from what Leticia James and Kathy Hochul said yesterday, I think the New York Democratic machine is drinking an extra dose of delusion.
“Levin for Attorney General, 2025!”
I agree totally!
I would more hope that these are overturned.
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