Posted on 07/01/2018 11:37:56 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
There is no way anyone could answer that since it might come up before them
‘Senator, I won’t comment on a hypothetical scenario. I would have to know the specifics of the case before I could make any ruling’.
I wonder how curious the snotty little twit will be to see how many Democrats are left in the Senate on Election Night.
They will get a non-answer if they ask.
There’s nothing to pardon.
Once again ‘The Hill’ carries a BS story to retain subscriptions inside the DC metro area from democrats who they tell what they want to hear.
Presidents aren’t kings. I doubt the Founding Fathers thought anyone would be dumb enough to ask that question. If a senate conviction occurred, Pence would be president and would make pardoning decisions.
I have asked myself that question often, adding "low IQ" scum. Perhaps it's that the political world has become so compromised that people of high standing simply avoid it, for the most part.
It’s called they hate the other party so much that they will take anyone from their party, regardless of stupidity.
It doesn’t matter how she or he answers. You are not voting for confirmation.
Don’t ask the question unless you already know the answer, is the dictum when dealing with legal matters. Asking the wrong question, or asking it prematurely, inevitably destroys your argument.
Irrelevant and immaterial. Churning such matters is like spitting into a hurricane.
What is this idiot from Starbucksland going to convict him of?
Without even knowing who the nominee will be, Democrats already know how they're going to vote.
Of course he can pardon himself and no court would have anything to say about it.
Art. II, Section 2: The President ... “shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.”
Secondly, you do not ask a judge candidate how he/she would rule on a case possibly headed to the court. The judge cannot answer.
I can’t decide which one is dumber: Patty Murray or Maria Cantwell.
I had dealings with Cantwell when she was in the state legislature on banking issues, and she was a quick study.
who are these numbskulls? Oh, Cantwell.
Sitting President can not be indicted.
Only process is impeachment. He can not pardon himself from removal of office.
Otherwise, what is the point?
So-called "progressives" portray themselves as the "intellectual" elite, although they are totally bereft of any real knowledge or understanding of the great ideas which were the seedbed of Ameria's successful 200-year experiment in liberty.Today's liberals, especially these so-called "progressives," with all of their domination of academia and Far Left politics, seem to fit into a category described in an essay by T.S. Eliot on Virgil:
"In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."(Bold added for emphasis)
Without intellectual anchoring in the enduring ideas which provided the philosophical foundation of America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution, their vain imaginations of superiority only expose their limited world view.
Yet, the America which rose from obscurity to greatness, from crude hoes and axes to putting a man on the moon, and from oppression by King George to a symbol of liberty for millions all over the world--that America provides shelter for them, even as they attempt to "change" her into something unimagined by the Founders.
If they were allowed to succeed in their own little provincial experiment, their posterity never would know the "blessings of Liberty" proclaimed by the Preamble to America's Constitution.
Now would be a good time for all of us to read (or re-read) Dr. Russell Kirk's "The Conservative Mind, which can be read online, by the way.
In Kirk's last chapter he reviews the works of poets and writers, quoting lines which now seem to bear a striking resemblance to Progressive players on the stage in American politics today.
For instance, in Robert Frost's "A Case for Jefferson," Frost writes of the character Harrison:
"Harrison loves my country too
But wants it all made over new.
. . . .
He dotes on Saturday pork and beans.
But his mind is hardly out of his teens.
With him the love of country means
Blowing it all to smithereens
And having it made over new."Yes, the pseudointellectuals of academia, the media, and much of Congress, by their own admission, have fancied themselves "intellectuals."
By their words and actions, however, they display that provinciality Dr. Kirk recalls as having been described by T. S. Eliot (see above) as being one of time and place, having no intellectual grounding in ideas older than their own little experience in dabbling and discussing Mao, Marx, and other theoreticians.
America's written Constitution deserves protectors whose minds are out of their "teens" in terms of their understanding of civilization's long struggle for liberty.
It certainly deserves protectors who do not consider it a "flawed" document because that Constitution does not permit the government it structures to run rough shod over the rights of its "KEEPERS, the People" (Justice Story).
Blasting it "all to smithereens" seems to be the goal of the Far Left.
Progressives/Leftists rely on what they must believe to be the ignorance of the American people when they make such ridiculous and condescending claims. They are being outwitted, however, by an increasingly knowledgeable citizenry who are using the miracles of technology to study for themselves ancient and modern writings on the ideas of liberty versus those of tyranny. As Jefferson wisely observed:
"History, by apprising the people of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views." - Thomas Jefferson
Did Obama already issue a pardon for his bad acts?
That would sure explain Rotten Rosenstein’s smirk.
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