Merrick Garland Has No Legal Standing Against Trump

[mudwhistle]

I don't care if Bill Barr says that he has a case.......Merrick Garland has no legal standing to investigate Trump on any documents that were at Mara-lago....and he knows it. Here's why:

"When government drones “classify” documents, they do so only because their authority comes from the president. They can neither challenge nor exceed the president’s authority. Neither can Congress for that matter.​

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This isn’t me saying that. This is the Supreme Court of the United States in an unchallenged decision that relies on a long-standing (as in, back to 1788) assignment of power to the executive. Presidents can voluntarily respect a national security law, but they do not have to abide by it.​

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That’s because the president—and only the president—has plenary power when it comes to national security matters. Plenary power means “a power that has been granted to a body or person in absolute terms, with no review of or limitations upon the exercise of that power.”​

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The leading case on this is Navy v. Egan, 484 U.S. 518 (1988), which considered whether a civil service board can review a “laborer’s” being denied national security clearance. In that context, the Supreme Court was clear about the president’s plenary power:​

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The President, after all, is the “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.” U.S.Const., Art. II, § 2. His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security and to determine whether an individual is sufficiently trustworthy to occupy a position in the Executive Branch that will give that person access to such information flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant. See Cafeteria Workers v. McElroy, 367 U. S. 886, 367 U. S. 890 (1961).​

Note that there are no procedural rules the president must follow to exercise his authority. Again, that’s because neither Congress nor the bureaucracy (which reports to the president) has the power to impose rules on him.​

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Because Trump was still the President of the United States, at the very moment when he transferred those documents from the White House to his private residence, they were automatically and instantly declassified. After that, nothing in his possession was either “sensitive” or “classified,” and neither the current nor the past Attorney General can change that fact."​

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Bill Barr’s latest anti-Trump diatribe explodes the myth that he’s a wise man

The Bible holds that “Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise…” (Proverbs 17:28.) In the modern era, with attribution to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or others, that’s been reworked as “Better to remain ...

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[mudwhistle]

 

[toobfreak]

I don't care if Bill Barr says that he has a case.......

Put simply, what does Bill Barr know about whether others have a case when he spent two years investigating all kinds of corruption unable to even make a case for himself?

 

[mudwhistle]

Put simply, what does Bill Barr know about whether others have a case when he spent two years investigating all kinds of corruption unable to even make a case for himself?

He knows better than anyone what the deal is....but he's either being blackmailed or bribed to issue a statement.
This is what we've been trying to tell everyone for months....and the FBI admitted last week....THEY DON'T HAVE A CASE!@!!!

So Merrick Garland is illegally and unethically starting a bogus investigation for political purposes....and it's simply so they can destroy evidence and obstruct justice.....and use it as a political talking-point for the 2024 election.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

We no longer live in a 1st world nation where law and order prevails.
We are now 3rd world where money and corruption and those who can afford it alone can get "Justice"

Expecting true Justice now is a bit absurd. Pandora is out of the box. Getting her back in is near impossible.
As the current generation dies off perhaps it will become more commonly accepted this new 3rd world status and how it works (or doesn't)

They'll adjust and get used to it. Learn how to survive in it.

 

[candycorn]

I don't care if Bill Barr says that he has a case.......Merrick Garland has no legal standing to investigate Trump on any documents that were at Mara-lago....and he knows it. Here's why:

"When government drones “classify” documents, they do so only because their authority comes from the president. They can neither challenge nor exceed the president’s authority. Neither can Congress for that matter.​

​

This isn’t me saying that. This is the Supreme Court of the United States in an unchallenged decision that relies on a long-standing (as in, back to 1788) assignment of power to the executive. Presidents can voluntarily respect a national security law, but they do not have to abide by it.​

​

​

That’s because the president—and only the president—has plenary power when it comes to national security matters. Plenary power means “a power that has been granted to a body or person in absolute terms, with no review of or limitations upon the exercise of that power.”​

​

The leading case on this is Navy v. Egan, 484 U.S. 518 (1988), which considered whether a civil service board can review a “laborer’s” being denied national security clearance. In that context, the Supreme Court was clear about the president’s plenary power:​

​

Note that there are no procedural rules the president must follow to exercise his authority. Again, that’s because neither Congress nor the bureaucracy (which reports to the president) has the power to impose rules on him.​

​

Because Trump was still the President of the United States, at the very moment when he transferred those documents from the White House to his private residence, they were automatically and instantly declassified. After that, nothing in his possession was either “sensitive” or “classified,” and neither the current nor the past Attorney General can change that fact."​

​

Bill Barr’s latest anti-Trump diatribe explodes the myth that he’s a wise man

The Bible holds that “Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise…” (Proverbs 17:28.) In the modern era, with attribution to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or others, that’s been reworked as “Better to remain ...

www.americanthinker.com

Complete and utter nonsense.

So nobody really knows if something is classified until they ask the President? Because...since you say there is no record keeping on what is declassified and what isn't...how in the world can anyone know what is classified and what is not?

And, oh yeah, just because your blob says he declassified something, that doesn't make it his personal property...the documents belong in DC, not in his closet in Florida.

You guys give new meaning to the word idiot.

 

[toobfreak]

....and the FBI admitted last week....THEY DON'T HAVE A CASE!!!! So Merrick Garland is illegally and unethically starting a bogus investigation for political purposes....

The motives are clear: just as they claimed mentioning the FBI still had a case open on Hillary in 2016 cost her the election--- Just as they suppressed news of Hunter's laptop before the 2020 election knowing it would hurt Biden, they are now starting a "criminal investigation" that will go on for at least the next two years just to keep Trump in the headlines as being a crook under investigation fleeing justice (and obviously guilty) hoping that it will help cost him enough votes to throw the election to someone else.

 

[Leo123]

Trump was correct......again.

 

[mudwhistle]

We no longer live in a 1st world nation where law and order prevails.
We are now 3rd world where money and corruption and those who can afford it alone can get "Justice"

Expecting true Justice now is a bit absurd. Pandora is out of the box. Getting her back in is near impossible.
As the current generation dies off perhaps it will become more commonly accepted this new 3rd world status and how it works (or doesn't)

They'll adjust and get used to it. Learn how to survive in it.

Yep....the pigs will learn how to live in shit.

This is why they're exposing kids to filth in our public schools....so when they grow up with no principles or standards....they'll accept low expectations and corruption.

 

[toobfreak]

Yep....the pigs will learn how to live in shit. This is why they're exposing kids to filth in our public schools....so when they grow up with no principles or standards....they'll accept low expectations and corruption.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

garland is basically harassing trump and smearing trump
their obsession with trump is psycho
they can't let it go

 

[Leo123]

Ahhh I miss PF.

 

[Godboy]

Complete and utter nonsense.

So nobody really knows if something is classified until they ask the President? Because...since you say there is no record keeping on what is declassified and what isn't...how in the world can anyone know what is classified and what is not?

And, oh yeah, just because your blob says he declassified something, that doesn't make it his personal property...the documents belong in DC, not in his closet in Florida.

You guys give new meaning to the word idiot.

Remember when they arrested and charged the Clintons for stealing shit from the White House when they left? Oh wait, they didnt get arrested and charged for it

 

[candycorn]

Remember when they arrested and charged the Clintons for stealing shit from the White House when they left? Oh wait, they didnt get arrested and charged for it

You're the east coast distributor of lame posting...

 

[toobfreak]

Remember when they arrested and charged the Clintons for stealing shit from the White House when they left? Oh wait, they didnt get arrested and charged for it

Hillary mistook some of the gifts from world leaders and furnishing put there by Jacky Kennedy in the early 1960s to be "hers" to take home and keep. Hillary finally brought them back.

They had to throw away all the mattresses.

 

[toobfreak]

Ahhh I miss PF.

Fortunately for me, they never left and I can summon Dave Gilmore, Roger Waters, Nick and Richard to come play for me right in front of me any time I will!

 

[Leo123]

Fortunately for me, they never left and I can summon Dave Gilmore, Roger Waters, Nick and Richard to come play for me right in front of me any time I will!

It's a great age in which we live for musicians and audiophiles.

 

[Esdraelon]

..Merrick Garland has no legal standing to investigate Trump on any documents that were at Mara-lago.

That would presume that the Left or their supporters gave a damn about law any longer. ANYTHING goes if it harms the Bad Orange Man and his supporters. The fools have lost all sight of the precedents they are setting. They are sowing the wind...

 

[toobfreak]

It's a great age in which we live for musicians and audiophiles.

Especially with Pink Floyd blasting at you effortlessly at 135 dB powered by 3,000 watts rms down to a heart stopping 12 Hertz!

 

[toobfreak]

That would presume that the Left or their supporters gave a damn about law any longer.

The nature of laws is that they must be obeyed whether they give a damn about them or not otherwise we have no law, just oppression of the poor while a reckless elite run amok.