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I've warned that impeachment talk is dangerous, but the time has come: Laurence Tribe
Yahoo! News ^ | 21 April 2019 | Laurence Tribe

Posted on 04/21/2019 2:25:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Despite Attorney General William Barr’s assurances and President Donald Trump’s boasts, the Mueller report doesn’t come close to exonerating the president of wrongdoing. Instead, it invites Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings. It’s time for Congress to heed that invitation.

In its extensive discussion of the constitutional issues implicated by special counsel Robert Mueller's 22-month investigation, the report asserts that Congress has the authority to apply law “to all persons – including the President.” Specifically, Congress may “protect its own legislative functions against corrupt efforts designed to impede legitimate fact-gathering and lawmaking efforts.” The authority to prohibit a president’s corrupt use of power, the report finds, is essential to “our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law.”

The report declines to reach a judgment on whether the president has committed a crime because Mueller views himself as bound by Department of Justice policy against indicting a sitting president. This does not mean that the president has not committed a crime. Indeed, Mueller’s refusal to reach a judgment is based partly on principles of fairness to the president: while people accused of a crime usually have the opportunity to give their story at trial, in this case, when no charges can be brought, the accused has no opportunity to clear his name. Mueller pointedly notes that the sitting president’s immunity, however, would not preclude prosecution “once the President's term is over or he is otherwise removed from office” — that is, impeached.

In these passages, Mueller invites Congress to take action, either through impeachment or by exposing a disgraced but politically acquitted Trump to criminal prosecution after he is no longer president — so long as that time comes within the five-year statute of limitations for obstruction.

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


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1 posted on 04/21/2019 2:25:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Desperate and more desperate.


2 posted on 04/21/2019 2:28:36 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They’re terrified that it’s really going to be gone and that Trump will come after them.

This is the Hail Mary last ditch pass to see if they can get anywhere near the goal.

One last Big Con: it’s...it’s...Obstruction! Yeah, Yeah! When you fight back against our Frames, yer..yer...guilty!

Psychopaths all: they never quit.


3 posted on 04/21/2019 2:29:05 PM PDT by Regulator
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Poor little baby never made it to the Supremes.


4 posted on 04/21/2019 2:29:45 PM PDT by laweeks
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I think this stuff is weird.

2 years of investigation and everyone knows they have nothing. Explicitly and exactly Nothing. No crime. Nada. And so they seem to be pushing for a quick finding of Guilty.

What?


5 posted on 04/21/2019 2:31:21 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Pulled his nose out of the Clinton family ass long enough to give his uneducated opinion?


6 posted on 04/21/2019 2:32:07 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No person is above the law?

It seems there are a bunch of people are - beginning with Hillary, Lois Lynch, on and on.


7 posted on 04/21/2019 2:32:14 PM PDT by ladyjane
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And Comey, Clapper, B and M Ohr, Strozk, Page, McCabe, Halper, Mifsud, Brennan, Podesta, Rhee, Weissmann and...drum roll plz....his Imperial Majesty, Grand Inquisitor Mueller.


8 posted on 04/21/2019 2:36:12 PM PDT by Regulator
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..drum roll plz....his Imperial Majesty, Grand Inquisitor Mueller.



9 posted on 04/21/2019 2:43:32 PM PDT by Bratch (IF YOU HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT CITIZENS, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT LEADERS-George Carlin)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Everyday you can find morons posting about hate as if hate were a bad thing.


10 posted on 04/21/2019 2:46:18 PM PDT by coaster123 (Men: Standard American handshake. Women: Curtsy.)
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Tribe doesn’t really believe that an impeachment will be initiated by the DemonRats (despite the bleatings by say a dozen or so of the most nutty ones)... Tribe is just setting himself up for a two year gig working for a network where the enemedia will carry out their own mock impeachment in the effort to help their Democrat friends in 2020.


11 posted on 04/21/2019 2:49:55 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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Tribe’s tribe is grossly over represented in these seditious doings.

WCPGW?
12 posted on 04/21/2019 2:52:37 PM PDT by IWontSubmit
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The Mueller investigation was never about collusion. It was about the Deep State trying to protect its own, paralyze the Trump presidency and ensuring he would either be impeached or not re-elected.


13 posted on 04/21/2019 2:56:22 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: laweeks

He wanted that badly & now you never even hear of the guy.


14 posted on 04/21/2019 2:56:29 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: hecticskeptic
Impeachment is the last thing sane democrats want. They will lose in the Senate and then lose the House in 2020. Instead their stated goal is to investigate tax returns and everything else for the next 18 months.

15 posted on 04/21/2019 2:58:52 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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Impeachment talk is not dangerous if there is a clear crime. In this case there is no clear crime, therefore none was committeed. Muller could not find a real crime to take hold of. No crime means he is "innocent" of the crime you tried to prove. You could not prove it. He is free to go forward.

But note this. You tried and failed so now it will be his turn and I just bet when you Nadler are put under the same scrutiny it will result in criminal charges against you and yours.

16 posted on 04/21/2019 3:00:41 PM PDT by Rapscallion (Democrats have cast the first stone. It's Trump's turn now.)
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This be treason.


17 posted on 04/21/2019 3:13:36 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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Poor Lawrence Tribe...Harvard Law School...been waiting for decades for a seat on SCOTUS...and he's finally realizing that it ain't gonna happen.

And BTW,Larry....Professor Dershowitz disagrees with you.Vigorously disagrees!

18 posted on 04/21/2019 3:24:12 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Bill Barr:The Bill Belichick of Attorneys General)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Tribe’s name must certainly be on a list of a nature such as the visitor log at Epstein’s pedo island temple.


19 posted on 04/21/2019 3:29:44 PM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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You tell’em Larry baby. Get those morons fired up to make fools of themselves as some of them are going to prison. Thank you God for NEVER allowing this hate filled turd onto our Supreme Court.


20 posted on 04/21/2019 3:30:23 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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