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Trump's Pardoning Powers Could Be Limited After Mueller's First Indictment
Newsweek via Yahoo ^ | October 29th, 2017 | Jason Silverstein

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adamschiff; manafort; pardons; president; russia; schiff; trump; trumprussia
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To: Mariner

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!


41 posted on 10/29/2017 3:45:01 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are nothttps://www.youtube.com/watch born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: Mariner

You misspelled Newsweak.


42 posted on 10/29/2017 3:45:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: Mariner

A**** Schiff is an egg sucking little weasel, he’s very limited when it comes to thinking.


43 posted on 10/29/2017 3:46:06 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: Mariner
Silverstein: "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."

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?

44 posted on 10/29/2017 3:47:52 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Mariner

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....


45 posted on 10/29/2017 3:49:41 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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To: Mariner

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.


46 posted on 10/29/2017 3:50:01 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Jim from C-Town

“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.


47 posted on 10/29/2017 3:50:02 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z)
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To: Jim from C-Town

At this point, I almost wish they would try something so we can wipe them all out.


48 posted on 10/29/2017 3:51:15 PM PDT by ZULU (DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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To: TexasGator

Who is being impeached?


49 posted on 10/29/2017 3:52:14 PM PDT by anton
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To: Mariner

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.


50 posted on 10/29/2017 3:52:23 PM PDT by JamesP81 (The DNC poses a greater threat to my liberty than terrorists, China, and Russia. Combined.)
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To: Mariner
Trump's Pardoning Powers Could Be Limited After Mueller's First Indictment

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?

51 posted on 10/29/2017 3:52:38 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: TexasGator

We aren’t talking about impeachment. Impeachment isn’t a crime it is a political action.


52 posted on 10/29/2017 3:53:38 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Mariner

Schiff gets off. Criminally stupid can’t be prosecuted


53 posted on 10/29/2017 3:54:38 PM PDT by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: Mariner

https://twitter.com/jaysunsilver

Good grief...there are partisan hacks...and, then, there’s taking to it to new limits/depths


54 posted on 10/29/2017 3:55:20 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Mariner

Convesely, Bills of Attaindar are unconstitutional.


55 posted on 10/29/2017 3:55:56 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: rktman
LOL! You included a pile of schiff 💩 in your post! :)
56 posted on 10/29/2017 3:57:52 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Mariner

Let my redo that: Conversely, Bills of Attainder are unconstitutional.


57 posted on 10/29/2017 3:58:41 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Jim from C-Town

“We aren’t talking about impeachment. Impeachment isn’t a crime it is a political action.”

I was just correcting the record.


58 posted on 10/29/2017 4:00:12 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z)
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To: Mariner

I wonder if Trump could do a mass firing at midnight tonight???? That would be sweet!!


59 posted on 10/29/2017 4:00:17 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: anton

“Who is being impeached?”

No one that I know of.


60 posted on 10/29/2017 4:00:42 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z)
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