Posted on 10/23/2016 7:49:49 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Clinton says she has 'no concerns' that Trump will try to jail her if he wins: 'We don't do that in America'
The Republican said he'll appoint a special prosecutor to look into her emails and told Clinton she'd 'be in jail' if he were in the White House 'I have no concerns about [that] whatsoever,' she told reporters traveling on her plane after DailyMail.com asked her about his pledge She'd said earlier in the evening: 'Every time Donald Trump says he wants to jail his opponent, meaning me, I think...we don't do that in America' With the debates over and fewer than three weeks to go until the end of the election, Clinton began her closing argument this weekend Hillary Clinton says she's not worried that Donald Trump will make good on his threat to 'jail' her if he wins.
'I have no concerns about [that] whatsoever,' she told reporters traveling on her plane from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia after DailyMail.com asked her about his pledge.
The Republican said he'll appoint a special prosecutor to look into her emails and told Clinton she'd 'be in jail' if he were in the White House now.
'Every time Donald Trump says he wants to jail his opponent, meaning me, I think to myself, you know, we don't do that in America,' Clinton said earlier in the evening at her Pittsburgh rally. 'We actually have laws and courts and an independent judiciary.'
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Al Capone
Look at your law: We stay innocent until proven guilty.
Ford’s pardon of Nixon was never challenged in court, and it was tacitly implied that if it was challenged, Ford would still be president for a few years and would just pardon Nixon for any convictions anyway, so the issue was left alone. In my opinion, a presidential blanket pardon isn’t ‘settled law’ at all, and the elephant in the room has just been ignored for forty years.
I agree with you. I would think that a blanket pardon in regards to all federal statutes applying to a certain action might be permissible. For example, and I don’t recall his exact verbiage, but it Ford pardoned Nixon for all crimes related to Watergate, then that might be legal. I can’t see a president being able to pardon someone for the rest of their lives for all federal crimes in the past, present, and future.
She’s going to leave the country if she looses so why would she be worried?
Read the Heritage link above.
Your link gives me the whole Constitution.
I’ve read that before. My stance is correct.
You must have pop-ups blocked. Their analysis includes the Founders commentary. It is contrary any your position.
From “Pardon Power”
“A reprieve is the commutation or lessening of a sentence already imposed; it does not affect the legal guilt of a person. A pardon, however, completely wipes out the legal effects of a conviction. A pardon can be issued from the time an offense is committed, and can even be issued after the full sentence has been served.”
It appears that, as of 1867, pardons could be performed for persons who committed crimes which were not yet known, but performed before the pardon occurred.
I stand corrected, unfortunately. This means the Clintons can be kept from all harms they've ever done, forever.
We will have to go after the Clinton Foundation and any new crimes they commit, going forward.
This is disgusting.
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