Posted on 03/09/2016 11:53:53 AM PST by Spunky
Attorney General Loretta Lynch indicated Wednesday that the law doesn't require the Justice Department to pursue criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email system, even if the FBI recommends criminal charges.
Lynch was asked in a hearing by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, what her department would do if the FBI were to recommend that step. "If the FBI were to make a referral to the Department of Justice to pursue a case by way of indictment and to convene a grand jury for that purpose, the Department of Justice is not required by law to do so, are they — are you?" Cornyn asked.
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If the a grand jury has already been empaneled, has Lynch already given her go ahead?
You make it sound like it's all up to the grand jury.
True, but the festering hostage situation in Iran drained on Carter every day.
Well... that question can apply across a pretty wide spread, I'd say. What would happen to Lynch if (rather, WHEN) she kicks an indictment recommendation to the side? Nothing.
To prosecute the little people and protect the elite, powerful and wealthy ones.
With all due respect dfu, you’re delusional.
Agree on the hostages. That’s why I didn’t bring up Benghazi. I figure that was a wash. haha
Interesting how many times I have seen “it will spark a civil war” at this site. Never does. The dogs bark and the circus moves on. Next up ...the Trump reality show vs Hillary Clinton.
I wonder if congress can pass a law voiding all pardons handed out during the last year of a presidency... even f it is a president I trust ....I don’t like that power being used because there is nothing to check it.
I wonder if congress can pass a law voiding all pardons handed out during the last year of a presidency... even f it is a president I trust ....I don’t like that power being used because there is nothing to check it.
I wonder if congress can pass a law voiding all pardons handed out during the last year of a presidency... even f it is a president I trust ....I don’t like that power being used because there is nothing to check it.
If the Democrats don’t do something with HRC before the election then they run the risk of Trump pounding them on how corrupt they are for at least two months. Do they really want that? They will probably dump her by Labor Day so the replacement doesn’t have time to get a real rectal exam.
In other words, the Department of Justice has nothing to do with justice.
Jessica Lynch embracing a bit of self-promotion on the Left.
Time will tell. I have trouble trusting ANY Obama appointee.
She’s got more important things to worry about, like “climate change deniers”.
Why bother with the law?
As if more proof were needed that the FedMob is a lawless banana republic.
Obama would use the Ford-Nixon pardon as his precedent. President Ford pardoned President Nixon for any crimes that he MAY have committed. Ford’s pardon even headed off indictments.
Proclamation 4311— Granting Pardon To Richard Nixon
September 8, 1974
A Proclamation
“Richard Nixon became the thirty-seventh President of the United States on January 20, 1969 and was reelected in 1972 for a second term by the electors of forty-nine of the fifty states. His term in office continued until his resignation on August 9, 1974.
Pursuant to resolutions of the House of Representatives, its Committee on the Judiciary conducted an inquiry and investigation on the impeachment of the President extending over more than eight months. The hearings of the Committee and its deliberations, which received wide national publicity over television, radio, and in printed media, resulted in votes adverse to Richard Nixon on recommended Articles of Impeachment.
As a result of certain acts or omissions occurring before his resignation from the Office of President, Richard Nixon has become liable to possible indictment and trial for offenses against the United States. Whether or not he shall be so prosecuted depends on findings of the appropriate grand jury and on the discretion of the authorized prosecutor. Should an indictment ensue, the accused shall then be entitled to a fair trial by an impartial jury, as guaranteed to every individual by the Constitution.
It is believed that a trial of Richard Nixon, if it became necessary, could not fairly begin until a year or more has elapsed. In the meantime, the tranquility to which this nation has been restored by the events of recent weeks could be irreparably lost by the prospects of bringing to trial a former President of the United States. The prospects of such trial will cause prolonged and divisive debate over the propriety of exposing to further punishment and degradation a man who has already paid the unprecedented penalty of relinquishing the highest elective office of the United States.
Now, Therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventy-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-ninth.”
Obama would veto it as violating Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constituition:
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
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