Posted on 07/22/2017 11:12:06 AM PDT by mandaladon
A newly-obtained memo written during special counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation of President Bill Clinton rejects a commonly held view that a sitting president can't be indicted, The New York Times reported.
The discovery adds a possible new wrinkle into the investigation into Russia and President Donald Trump's campaign.
The memo has been locked away in the National Archives since 1998, but was obtained by the Times' Charlie Savage through a Freedom of Information Act request, and represents a thorough analysis of the opinion, the newspaper reported Saturday.
According to the findings, the memo concludes that "no one, even President Clinton, is above the law" and says it is "proper, constitutional, and legal for a federal grand jury to indict a sitting president for serious criminal acts that are not part of, and are contrary to, the president's official duties."
Ronald Rotunda, a prominent conservative professor of constitutional law and ethics, was assigned to write the memo when deputy prosecutors told Starr they had enough evidence to send to a grand jury against Clinton. The prosecutors also compiled a draft for an indictment against Clinton.
The Times has also put in a request for that, but the National Archives is still determining if the document could fall under secrecy rules for grand juries.
Starr's findings were not the first time a special counsel had determined a sitting president could be indicted. Watergate special counsel Leon Jaworski, in 1974, also got a memo from his staff saying then-President Richard Nixon could be indicted.
Starr, as well as Jaworski, chose to allow the matter proceed to impeachment, rather than indictments, but the memos bring up a possibility that former FBI Director Robert Mueller, in charge of the Russia investigation, could have options allowing him to proceed with a criminal case.
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Indict and Impeach Trump, and there won’t be enough Safe Spaces on Earth where we won’t find you ( Democrats/Media) and depose of you.
Memos are like you know what..., everyone has one... The National Enquirer is a paragon of news virtue today... I never thought the MSM would aspire to emulate them....
Yes. Exactly. And an FBI Director doesn’t personally supervise investigations in any case. That is the job of the Deputy Director.
Indicted? even on Trumped up charges ?? Is this how the media exacts its revenge? By sacking the country and submitting it to the rule of a few in black robes?
The DC Beltway Boyz are nothing but a bunch of thugs,, selected not elected by a bunch of misguided adolescents pretending to be above it all.
“US law is now based on memos???”
Yes, and they are “enforced by” the Federal Bureau of Matters!
Oh, good grief, these people want rid of Trump so much they’re having public wet dreams about it.
“...and depose of you.”
I think we’d probably rather DISPOSE of you!
Looks like we missed our chance with Obozo.
Except if your last name ends with “clinton”.
All the more reason for President Trump to fire 90% of ALL federal employees.
Who would believe that a president could not be inducted?
Clearly, Nixon would have faced indictment if he were not pardoned.
I can see Trump’s supporters coming out in mass protests. Next, the Leftists move in to attack Trump supporters — with the police allowing them to do so. Finally, Trump supporters fight back. HARD.
Who would the police, national guard, and military fire upon?
Ugly. Just ugly.
I’m starting to see parallels with the old Austro-Hungarian empire. They had language and ethnic and religious groups all cobbled together. And it worked OK until some of the groups decided that they really, really needed to assert their own special identity. And all of a sudden none of it held together any more.
I think the East coast of the US, the West coast, and parts of the Great Lakes could actually splinter. People of one sort could end up being chased from this region into that region.
A house divided cannot stand.
To consider that the president of the United States cannot be charged for a crime while in office is to create a king or an Idi Amin style dictator and I cannot believe that any red-blooded American would agree with that idea. If such a thing would officially be confirmed then I would definitely agree with those on this forum who hold that our country has sunk to the level of a banana republic.
W Clinton gave away missile technology
H Clinton gave away uranium
Trump did what?
Won despite the MSM being 99-1 against him and all the voter fraud Hillary could muster.
Plus, his wife is better looking than any of Bill Clinton's girlfriends were, and *far* better looking that Michelle.
That is unforgivable.
I’d like to see the lawyer with the stones to stand up before the USSC and cite a “memo”... That would be something to see.
The same sort of law existed in ancient Rome. It's one of the elements that helped destroy the republic. Opponents would charge their political enemies with crimes knowing they would be prosecuted upon leaving office.
No one is above the law...except MRS. Clinton, Huma,Obama, Holder, Lynch, Rice,Comey,Clapper, Brannon, and the bureaucrats at the EPA who poisoned the rivers providing water to Native Americans in the West.
Well, the Felons Clinton were BOTH above the law. So this memo is Bull0bama.
The liberals have been planning on this since the day that we elected Donald J. Trump as our president.
On the other hand, I don't imagine that they were planning on dancing in the Spoandau Ballet under the DC cherry trees, like they're gonna end up doing if they skin this "removal" smokewagon...
You cannot say that with certainty.
Who is the litigant? Do they have standing?
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