Posted on 10/29/2017 3:23:28 PM PDT by Mariner
With the first indictment looming from the federal Trump-Russia investigation, President Donald Trump is getting a reminder: His pardoning pardons can’t fix everything.
“I don't think the president's power is all that absolute, as people have been suggesting,” California Representative Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told ABC News’ “This Week” Sunday.
“The president cannot pardon people if it's an effort to obstruct justice, if it's an effort to prevent Bob Mueller and others from learning about the President's own conduct. So, there are limitations.”
Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who has been investigating the Trump campaign’s potential Russia ties, is expected to unseal his first criminal charges as early as Monday.
Schiff said he has not been told who will be hit by the indictments, but he believes based on press reports that it will either be former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort or former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Both men resigned from their positions after controversy over their ties to foreign governments, which Mueller has been scrutinizing.
If Trump tries to pardon whoever faces charges, he could several major hurdles.
The Constitution allows the president broad powers to pardon people for “Offenses against the United States." There is no precedent for a sitting president pardoning people tied to his campaign, as will likely be the case for Mueller’s debut indictment.
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the President has complete pardoning power
(not that he needs it but he could even pardon himself and in advance too)
but anyway, who cares?
either they are going to clean up the DNC SorozNazi HilLIARY DWSchulz Obama swamp..............or else it is a tempest in a teapot, essentially not very helpful if at all, and a big distraction. DJT should fire Meuller and shut the whole farce down if its not gonna drain the swamp of the real rabid allilgators!
You misspelled Newsweak.
A**** Schiff is an egg sucking little weasel, he’s very limited when it comes to thinking.
Oh, you mean like when sitting president Bill Clinton through DOJ lawyer Eric Holder pardoned fugitive Marc Rich whose ex-wife gave more than a million to Dems?
Thank you Mr Sh(iff)t for so called brains.
PDT should say Thanks, hold a press conference, put a blindfold on and throw darts at the names of people that have been ‘presidentially pardoned’ the past 20 years of LIBERAL pardons..
Throw 20 darts and where they land instruct the AG to arrest them and rescind the pardons.
See how long that stands....
The Left is accustomed to a bubble world where the law is what they say it is. They have been working hard to get judges with the same view and Trump has upset their nice little journey.
“There is no limit as to the power of the President when it comes to Pardoning Powers. That is Constitution 101 stuff.”
Actually there are limits.
... and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
At this point, I almost wish they would try something so we can wipe them all out.
Who is being impeached?
If Trump pardons someone Monday then I DARE Mueller to continue anyway.
That leftist jackass is about to set things into motion that will escape his control instantly.
No wonder Time, Newsweek, and many other publications are fading in readership and subscription sales.
This STORY is TOTALLY INACCURATE and this is passed off as credible journalism?
We aren’t talking about impeachment. Impeachment isn’t a crime it is a political action.
Schiff gets off. Criminally stupid can’t be prosecuted
https://twitter.com/jaysunsilver
Good grief...there are partisan hacks...and, then, there’s taking to it to new limits/depths
Convesely, Bills of Attaindar are unconstitutional.
Let my redo that: Conversely, Bills of Attainder are unconstitutional.
“We aren’t talking about impeachment. Impeachment isn’t a crime it is a political action.”
I was just correcting the record.
I wonder if Trump could do a mass firing at midnight tonight???? That would be sweet!!
“Who is being impeached?”
No one that I know of.
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