Posted on 05/20/2018 10:43:58 AM PDT by doug from upland
I suggested weeks ago that White House Counsel Don McGahn research that very question. The president, I believe, as the repository of executive power under the Constitution, has the raw constitutional power to make a special appointment of a prosecutor to execute federal law.
However, there are questions as to whether such an appointment would conflict with congressional statutes and would be able to access funds appropriated by Congress to carry out his or her task.
For example, a congressional statute requires that, generally, all litigation on behalf of the United States must be carried out in the DOJ under the AG.
Maybe the best way to accomplish this is for the president to issue an executive order directing the Attorney General or Acting Attorney General to appoint person x as a special counsel to conduct a criminal investigation of these matters.
For example, President Trump could order Rod Rosenstein as Acting Attorney General to appoint US Attorney John Huber as special counsel to undertake such an investigation. Or, if POTUS doesn’t know Huber well enough to have confidence in him (remember how disastrously Sessions’ confidence in Rosenstein has turned out) pick another US Attorney in whom Trump has personal confidence is honest and loyal to the United States instead of to the deep state.
Ditto that to some builder in NY who had to buy a lotta concrete from them, I hear he is pretty fearless too... ;-)
AC,
Don’t let that ass clown wreck it for you.
Donation’s are needed to keep this place running.
I read through the thread and what TMM said was unjustified.
I appreciate you as do many others.
You are a prolific poster and your thoughts are appreciated.
Don’t punish this great site for what a few retards puke out of their mouths.
Andrew McCarthy would be a great candidate.....
You can always cry to the moderator to have it removed if it offends u.
Are you on drugs TMM?
What kind of BS is that.
I read the thread and I don’t get your reaction at all.
Way over the top and unjustified.
You owe AC an apology.
lol, this place is merciless.
Sorry Eddie, I’ve had my fill of AC/LS.
I am not going to apologse to a member who
takes up a lot of band width and admits
he does not donate to FR.
If it offends u, then report it to the moderator.
This has gotten completely out of control. LOL.
“Don’t let that ass clown wreck it for you.
Donation’s are needed to keep this place running.
I read through the thread and what TMM said was unjustified.
I appreciate you as do many others.
You are a prolific poster and your thoughts are appreciated.
Don’t punish this great site for what a few retards puke out of their mouths.”
I’ll put out a big AMEN to that !!!
No FReeper-to-FReeper personal attacks or cussing. PERIOD.
I still have a heated private Freep-mail exchange between LS and me in my mailbox. LOL.
I’m just standing up for another and giving it right back.
TMM is out here bullying other Freepers and that don’t sit well with me.
My apologies to the board.
In their stupidity of demanding Attorney General Session ‘wake-up’, means they have no clue how the Justice system is suppose to work. The absolute most AG Sessions can do is indict... He cannot ‘convict’ anyone... Perhaps get a plea deal but it would take a ‘judge/jury’ to convict. I for one do NOT want any ‘not guilty’ decisions by liberal judges/juries ... for the rush to ‘judgment’ trials, these idiots continue to demand. I would rather have the criminals twist in the wind forever than to be called ‘not guilty’.
And can we get on with the Hillary email prosecutions now that we know what was on Carlos Danger’s laptop besides kiddie porn?
“congressional statute requires that, generally, all litigation on behalf of the United States must be carried out in the DOJ under the AG”.
I would think that a congressional statute is not a U.S. law.....
I would not dare to request your idiocy be removed. I want it right there in the wide open to demonstrate the level of your IQ.
That’s the President’s real leverage—his ability to declassify whatever he chooses, at a time of his choosing.
YES!!!!! Enough is enough!!!!!!
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