Posted on 07/01/2018 11:37:56 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) on Sunday said she is “anxious” to hear if President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee thinks the president can pardon himself.
“I’m so anxious to hear whatever this nominee has to say,” Cantwell said on NBC’s “Meet the Press." “Is the president able to pardon himself?”
Cantwell said she was concerned about whether a potential nominee would "fight to protect" special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
“I want to know what he thinks of the Mueller, the process of how far the Mueller investigation needs to go,” Cantwell said of the future justice. “Will they fight to protect that?”
“These are monumental questions,” Cantwell added. “This is a person who wants 40 years on the court, or probably 40 years. I want at least 40 minutes to hear what they have to say about these important issues,” she said.
Cantwell's comments come days after Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, leaving room for Trump to nominate a second conservative to the bench. ETC...
They aren’t going to ask that question are they? How embarrassing. Maybe since the dummies are planning to impeach for no reason...They do not want him to have a back up plan.
IQ test needed, stat.
You mean she actually put her bottle of booze down long enough to get her name in the news? Incredible!!!
Keep rolling em out Democrats. You look stupider by the day.
At worst, it’s a toss up.
My opinion is that the presidential pardon power is not limited in the Constitution except for any charges that would be part of an impeachment proceeding. The constitution clearly suggests those charges can be pursued after the president is out of office.
I also believe that the pardon power extends even to state charges under the principal of federal supremacy.
Don’t answer hypothetical questions.
Don’t stop her! Let her go off the cliff. STUPID communist.
I’m anxious to see the next pro-2A, pro-life SC appointee nuked in so that the Democrats will have their heads explode.
“The Reid Option” baby. Elections have consequences. /Barack
I want to know if the nominee thinks Guam will tip over if we send our Marines there..
I wonder what Sen. Cantwell has in mind? The President has not been charged with any crime and no evidence has been revealed that would lead to such a charge. She is having wishful dreams again. Moreover, a new Justice would have no role to play. The House votes on charges, the Senate serves as the jury, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presides over the trial. The only possible outcome would be removal from office, and Trump could not reinstate himself.
She is so ignorant, and so stupid.
It’s just like when Gorush went through the hearings. They kept asking him about the emoluments clause. Same tard thinking.
Oh I think her words pretty much serve as all the IQ test we need on her.
And maybe find out if a woman can self impregnate or self abort.
I do not know if she has gotten better recently... but she has literally come to SeaTac so drunk that her aides have had to hold her up while she is walking through the terminal. How this old lush keeps getting reelected is beyond me.
Obama Pardoned himself all the time
I think as a Republican Senator I’d ask, “Do you think the Democrats can impeach a president simply because he is not of their party, and can a sitting president overturn their unconstitutional impeachment using the United States Supreme Court?”
“How this old lush keeps getting reelected is beyond me.”
Seattle
“She is so ignorant, and so stupid.”
How is it that in our glorius country with 300 plus million people the absolute scum of the earth rise to political prominence?
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