Posted on 07/09/2020 7:40:20 AM PDT by janetjanet998
“Fake News...The Court remanded the case back to the lower courts. They did not clear a NY grand jury to get the records.”
I think you are right. Bloomberg was too quick to “cheer the ruling”.
He can’t be prosecuted by the federal government while in office, because he’s in charge of the DOJ, so he would essentially be prosecuting himself. Hence the need for impeachment before prosecution, at the federal level.
At the state or local level, I think it’s an unsettled question. As far as I know, there is no law prohibiting it, but nobody has ever tried, so it surely would be challenged and probably have to go to the Supreme Court.
Rush reporting Trump does not have to turn records over to New York DA.
Rush is right. The case is sent back to the lower courts. The Supreme Court didn’t order Trump’s financial team to give the documents immediately to the New York prosecutors.
He doesn't need to be accused, just suspected.
Said another way, you are correct, but the phrasing of your question was technically incorrect. Authorities can't go on fishing expeditions. They need to have an articulable suspicion.
On paper we are not a police state. That said, we are in fact a police state, just all the authorities deny it, and claim we are not, etc. The government does not practice any of the restraint it or the law claims.
ok - well I suppose in my naivety I believe just “suspicion” alone wasn’t enough to violate the 4th amendment. They’re required to at least be able to articulate a reasonable suspicion of a specific crime. Otherwise it’s just ‘fishing for a crime’.
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