Posted on 12/02/2024 11:11:28 AM PST by DFG
Pardoning a president’s son could be an effort to obstruct justice, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) suggested in 2018.
Schiff’s comment is relevant after President Joe Biden pardoned Hunter Biden for tax and gun violations. The pardon also includes any alleged crimes with which the Justice Department did not charge him.
Many legal experts believe Hunter may have committed Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) violations, at the very least. Republicans also say Joe Biden benefited from the transactions. “The Congress ought to know whether the President is using the pardon power to obstruct justice,” Schiff said. “The American people have a right to know.”
Schiff’s statement was delivered on CNN in relation to proposed legislation. The proposal was at the time directed at then-President Donald Trump and his family.
“What exactly would it do?” CNN’s Don Lemon asked.
Schiff explained the intent of the bill: What it would do is say that in the event the president pardons anyone in an investigation in which the President is a witness, a subject or the target, those investigative files will all be turned over to the Congress. The Congress ought to know whether the President is using the pardon power to obstruct justice. The American people have a right to know. I think it is clearly constitutional. It doesn’t prohibit him from granting a pardon, even a pardon he shouldn’t grant, but it does say that we will be able to at least find out whether the President is using this power to shield himself from liability.
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This bug-eyed Chode is now a US Senator. What has happened to California?
Multiple legal standards:
One for Democrats elites: Don’t have to follow the law or worry about consequences.
One for poor Democrats: may be punished for breaking the law
One for Republicans: Will be punished for breaking the law, to the maximum extent if politically connected.
One for Trump: make up new laws to retroactively prosecute only Trump.
The Democrats said they believed in the “Rule of Law”, now you know what it means.
C’mon, anything that a Dem says in the past doesn’t matter... unless the Dems want it to matter.
Goggle-eyes isn’t to be burdened by the past.
“Pardoning a president’s son could be an effort to obstruct justice, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) suggested in 2018.”
i must have missed that part in the section of the Constitution that grants the power of pardon to the President of the United States ...
Pardoning Hunter Biden
And the winners are Obama Hunter Joe and family?.
And what others in D.C.?.
Wonder how many Brinks trucks are on the move with gold bars?
LOL!!!
Schiff’s an idiot. The pardon power would be meaningless if it could be twisted into an obstruction claim.
How many billions to Ukraine with 0 oversight or being able to see where the money goes or to whom the money goes. Freshly printed money sent straight there. How many are getting this money. Why no politician asking this question. Will the rabbit hole ever be uncovered.
California has a long history of bad choices when it comes to Senators.
I HATE this ####.
these kind of opinions only apply to Republicans!
get with the program!
/s
Any pardon is an “obstruction” of justice. Criminal proceedings must be ended or not commenced. That’s what a pardon is. That’s the whole point of a pardon — to interfere with otherwise correct and legal criminal proceedings.
And the Constitution gives the president the right to grant pardons for violations of federal law without any limitations on that power.
So Biden’s pardon of Hunter cannot be an illegal obstruction of justice.
Any pardon is an “obstruction” of justice. Criminal proceedings must be ended or not commenced. That’s what a pardon is. That’s the whole point of a pardon — to interfere with otherwise correct and legal criminal proceedings.
And the Constitution gives the president the right to grant pardons for violations of federal law without any limitations on that power.
So Biden’s pardon of Hunter cannot be an illegal obstruction of justice.
Agree the question answered itself.
How many are getting this money. Why no politician asking this question.
Most become a politician not for the country and liberty but only for their wealth as we see so often.
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