https://www.newsweek.com/trump-claims-he-has-legal-right-meddle-doj-former-officials-say-it-would-grossly-improper-1487399
"The president arguably, as head of the executive branch, has the
constitutional authority and discretion to give direction to the
Department of Justice or any other executive branch. But it is grossly
improper and an abuse of that discretion for the president to seek to
influence a criminal investigation," David Laufman, the DOJ's former
counterintelligence chief, told Newsweek.
He added that
throughout the history of the Justice Department there have been
"explicit understandings" in how the White House can communicate with
the law enforcement agency—until now.
"I can't think of any
president in recent modern history that has repeatedly made public
statements about pending criminal investigations, prosecutions or trials
with the intent to influence them," Laufman said.
Former
Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman agreed, noting that there's nothing in
the Constitution preventing Trump from telling the attorney general how
to handle a certain case but that it's "just never done."
"It's
never done because it looks like the president is interfering in the
system of justice, that he is putting his own personal beliefs on top of
what we want as even-handed enforcement of our criminal law," Akerman
told Newsweek. "This is something unique to Donald Trump."
On to Bernie and commuism! Oh yeah!!
ReplyDeleteThe question is, is the President obligated to excersize his obligation to control a government agency, or can he farm it out to others? And then get blamed when the employees he's not being permitted to control, mess up.
ReplyDeleteNo other employee-employer relationship works that way. And US attorneys are employees of the President.
so if he uses the DOJ to protect his friends and punish foes you think that is ok?
ReplyDeleteRead it and weep.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/politics/alan-dershowitz-obama-george-soros.amp
deshowitz basically is saying "believe me " - and produces no evidence
ReplyDeleteafter his crazy "anything a politician does to get reelected is fine" he has zero credibility