Dershowitz: ‘You Cannot Charge a President With Obstruction for Exercising His Constitutional Power’

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This is for all the forum idiots who think Mueller can charge Trump with obstruction of justice:


Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz batted down the merit of obstruction of justice charges aimed at President Donald Trump for what he said was exercising his constitutional power and authority regarding the firing of then-FBI Director James Comey and instructing the Department of Justice what to and not to investigate.

“If Congress were to ever charge him with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional authority under Article 2, we’d have a constitutional crisis,” he explained. “You cannot charge a president with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional power to fire Comey and his constitutional authority to tell the Justice Department who to investigate, who not to investigate. That’s what Thomas Jefferson did. That’s what Lincoln did. That’s what Roosevelt did. We have precedents that clearly establish that.”

 
liberals are going to be worse then ever when they find out that this is not going to work
 
Poor Joy Blowhard. She was so excited she was soaking her Depends as she read the bogus information about Flynn. But alas, that too was.....FAKE NEWS.

The audience of The View started cheering when Joy Behar read the fake news about Flynn.
 
Reminder who Dershowitz is...

FUCKING TRUMP LOVING RIGHT WINGER ALAN DERSHOWITZ?

What does that guy know about the Constitution?

Oh....

Alan Dershowitz - Wikipedia

Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer and author. He is a scholar of United States constitutional law and criminal law, and a leading defender of civil liberties.He spent most of his career at Harvard Law School where in 1967, at the age of 28, he became the youngest full professor of law in its history.
 
So the president is above the law ?

YES


On June 20, 2012, President Barack Obama asserted executive privilege, his first, to withhold certain Department of Justice documents related to the ongoing Operation Fast and Furious controversy ahead of a United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in Contempt of Congress for refusing to produce the documents.

Later the same day, the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform voted 23–17 along party lines to hold Attorney General Holder in contempt of Congress over not releasing documents regarding Fast and Furious.

Executive privilege was also used in a lawsuit stemming from the 2012 implementation of the "Net Worth Sweep" against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Obama administration did not disclose roughly 11,000 documents from the plaintiffs in the discovery process as they related to the reasoning behind the 2012 actions.
 
So the president is above the law ?

YES


On June 20, 2012, President Barack Obama asserted executive privilege, his first, to withhold certain Department of Justice documents related to the ongoing Operation Fast and Furious controversy ahead of a United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in Contempt of Congress for refusing to produce the documents.

Later the same day, the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform voted 23–17 along party lines to hold Attorney General Holder in contempt of Congress over not releasing documents regarding Fast and Furious.

Executive privilege was also used in a lawsuit stemming from the 2012 implementation of the "Net Worth Sweep" against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Obama administration did not disclose roughly 11,000 documents from the plaintiffs in the discovery process as they related to the reasoning behind the 2012 actions.

Executive privilege is somthing else.

You are saying that a prez can’t be found to be a criminal for somthing he did even before he was president ?
 
This is for all the forum idiots who think Mueller can charge Trump with obstruction of justice:


Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz batted down the merit of obstruction of justice charges aimed at President Donald Trump for what he said was exercising his constitutional power and authority regarding the firing of then-FBI Director James Comey and instructing the Department of Justice what to and not to investigate.

“If Congress were to ever charge him with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional authority under Article 2, we’d have a constitutional crisis,” he explained. “You cannot charge a president with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional power to fire Comey and his constitutional authority to tell the Justice Department who to investigate, who not to investigate. That’s what Thomas Jefferson did. That’s what Lincoln did. That’s what Roosevelt did. We have precedents that clearly establish that.”



Yes, after I heard it, I looked most of it up myself. He is correct, as far as I can tell.

This whole thing is 1/2 baked, and the thing that is really sad is---------->many congresspeople in the Democratic party are lawyers. They already know they are blowing smoke, and the lefties on here believe them!

Not only that, but for the sake of argument..............is not the investigation still going on? So what obstruction is there? Because he fired Comey?

All this is in reality is a distraction from how the Democrats screwed the pooch. In truth, I believe that this is going to end very badly for the Democrats. Anyone, with any sense can see, that while it took awhile to be as sneaky as Democrats, the Administration has become the same way. By the time this is over, the Democrats are gonna wonder "wha happened!" They aren't dealing with the Bush family, they are dealing instead with someone who will bury their political rearends, and they are soon going to find that out.
 
This is for all the forum idiots who think Mueller can charge Trump with obstruction of justice:

Mueller can't- you can't charge a sitting President with anything.

But the House could charge the President with Obstruction.

Would the GOP EVER charge Trump with anything- even if there were photo's of him handing over the nuclear codes to Putin in exchange for a suitcase full of diamonds?

Don't think so.
 
So the president is above the law ?

YES


On June 20, 2012, President Barack Obama asserted executive privilege, his first, to withhold certain Department of Justice documents related to the ongoing Operation Fast and Furious controversy ahead of a United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in Contempt of Congress for refusing to produce the documents.

Later the same day, the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform voted 23–17 along party lines to hold Attorney General Holder in contempt of Congress over not releasing documents regarding Fast and Furious.

Executive privilege was also used in a lawsuit stemming from the 2012 implementation of the "Net Worth Sweep" against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Obama administration did not disclose roughly 11,000 documents from the plaintiffs in the discovery process as they related to the reasoning behind the 2012 actions.

Executive privilege is somthing else.

You are saying that a prez can’t be found to be a criminal for somthing he did even before he was president ?

Not while in office, including tax evasion. Now that might stop him from getting re-elected, but no, they can't prosecute him unless they impeach him.
 
So the president is above the law ?

YES


On June 20, 2012, President Barack Obama asserted executive privilege, his first, to withhold certain Department of Justice documents related to the ongoing Operation Fast and Furious controversy ahead of a United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in Contempt of Congress for refusing to produce the documents.

Later the same day, the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform voted 23–17 along party lines to hold Attorney General Holder in contempt of Congress over not releasing documents regarding Fast and Furious.

Executive privilege was also used in a lawsuit stemming from the 2012 implementation of the "Net Worth Sweep" against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Obama administration did not disclose roughly 11,000 documents from the plaintiffs in the discovery process as they related to the reasoning behind the 2012 actions.

Executive privilege is somthing else.

You are saying that a prez can’t be found to be a criminal for somthing he did even before he was president ?

Presidents have their own laws.....they are above the laws that MOST other people have to follow.
 
This is for all the forum idiots who think Mueller can charge Trump with obstruction of justice:

Mueller can't- you can't charge a sitting President with anything.

But the House could charge the President with Obstruction.

Would the GOP EVER charge Trump with anything- even if there were photo's of him handing over the nuclear codes to Putin in exchange for a suitcase full of diamonds?

Don't think so.

If he acted outside his authority to obstruct justice, like Clinton did, they could.

But let's be honest, you don't care about obstruction of justice. You just want trump gone.
 
So the president is above the law ?

YES


On June 20, 2012, President Barack Obama asserted executive privilege, his first, to withhold certain Department of Justice documents related to the ongoing Operation Fast and Furious controversy ahead of a United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in Contempt of Congress for refusing to produce the documents.

Later the same day, the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform voted 23–17 along party lines to hold Attorney General Holder in contempt of Congress over not releasing documents regarding Fast and Furious.

Executive privilege was also used in a lawsuit stemming from the 2012 implementation of the "Net Worth Sweep" against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Obama administration did not disclose roughly 11,000 documents from the plaintiffs in the discovery process as they related to the reasoning behind the 2012 actions.

Executive privilege is somthing else.

You are saying that a prez can’t be found to be a criminal for somthing he did even before he was president ?

What did trump do?
 
The reasons witch hunts don't work !!!!!!!!!.. This whole orchastrated catastrophe that was conducted by the liberals/Demon-crats is now backfiring big league on the crats now. I heard the question tonight asked "why did Flynn lie" ?? Think about it folks, now exactly what kind of environment had been created around this whole thing up to that point ?? Pure manipulating evilness is what happened or was created by the Demon-crats/liberals to over throw an election, and Flynn did'nt want no part of the fake uproar in which the liberal/Demon-crats had created or for which they were attempting to create in the entire hate Trump campaign they had concocted.... When people saw this kind of evilness in which this thing had become, and how it was able to grow legs out of thin air, and how it began to walk without a head, then heck I believe that near abouts anyone would go into protect mode by not adding to the bullcrap in which the stir crazy Lynch Mob was already up to or into. I believe Flynn could have sneezed wrong, and they would have said see, see, see, I told you so or he could have been just standing around doing nothing, and if they figured he could help further their agenda to get Trump out, then they would put words into Flynn's own mouth as he choked on the evil intent that was behind those words or people. I would be looking to sue everyone that falsely accused Trump etc. of cullusion, in which has since caused everyone to have to worry that they would be falsely accused on trumped up charges or accusations that they culluded with the Russians in order to try and steal an election from the real suspect in the whole situation "HILLARY R. CLINTON"..

What person would give anything to evil human beings that are trying to conduct a witch hunt in order to try and go after a big fish that somehow swam up into a pool of piranhas/Demon-crats for whom wanted instead their chosen one who was just like them in the pool, and everyone else just get the hell out or get set up ??
 
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This is for all the forum idiots who think Mueller can charge Trump with obstruction of justice:

Mueller can't- you can't charge a sitting President with anything.

But the House could charge the President with Obstruction.

Would the GOP EVER charge Trump with anything- even if there were photo's of him handing over the nuclear codes to Putin in exchange for a suitcase full of diamonds?

Don't think so.

If he acted outside his authority to obstruct justice, like Clinton did, they could.

But let's be honest, you don't care about obstruction of justice. You just want trump gone.
is that an excuse for not impeaching him for obstruction of justice, if he committed it?
 

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