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To: xzins

My reading of the Constitution makes it clear the only gov entity that can try a sitting president for anything (High crimes and misdemeanors) including actions of a President while in office is Congress. Courts are preempted


26 posted on 05/08/2017 9:54:30 AM PDT by Mechanicos
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To: Mechanicos

Congress has authorized lower federal courts to have “concurrent jurisdiction” with the SC over cases such as a state vs. the Feds. This jurisdiction needs to be removed by Congress. Simply changing SC justices won’t solve the root of the problem.


28 posted on 05/08/2017 10:05:29 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Mechanicos

More specifically only the Senate has any trial power. The House is like a Grand Jury.


61 posted on 05/08/2017 2:24:22 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com.)
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