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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton should be nullified
if it is true that a sitting POTUS cannot be held responsible for committing any crime.
Yavin4
(35,443 posts)both from Congress and the media.
Poiuyt
(18,126 posts)unblock
(52,256 posts)republicans are actually allowing that a president can be impeached and removed, an easy "concession" for them to make knowing full well that there are enough republican toadies in the senate to block conviction and removal.
but what they're now trying to do is to say a president can't be indicted or even investigated while president.
which, of course, would allow a president to commit any number of crimes, including crimes to get elected or re-elected and even crimes to prevent impeachment and removal (e.g., killing senators, blackmailing them, kidnapping their children, etc.).
yeah, sounds just like what the founders had in mind....
stopbush
(24,396 posts)unblock
(52,256 posts)stopbush
(24,396 posts)Its a legal confirmation that it never happened. History would then be rewritten.
sarisataka
(18,671 posts)To Winston Smith at the Ministry of Truth to get the correct story into the history books
unblock
(52,256 posts)as if history would forget he had been impeached?
this is silly.
getting an indictment expunged from a criminal record has a meaningful impact on someone, even if that person has been found not guilty at trial.
how does some legal proceeding declaring that clinton's impeachment was somehow improper affect anything? is he having trouble getting a job because he can't pass a background check?
this is all very ridiculous.
Baitball Blogger
(46,739 posts)The media and a very determined united Republican House, Republican special prosecutor and a Republican Attorney General did the rest.
I never again want to see a Democratic president appoint Republicans to the top offices of our legal and criminal justice system. Our country is too divided for that kind of self-flagellating move.
former9thward
(32,028 posts)She was a Democrat. Ken Starr was appointed by a three judge panel of the federal DC Circuit. Clinton did not appoint any Repubicans to top positions (or any positions) in the justice department.
Baitball Blogger
(46,739 posts)CIA director.
in2herbs
(2,945 posts)Catherine Vincent
(34,490 posts)...was in office. Clinton's misdemeanor was censure worthy at best.
onenote
(42,715 posts)any more than there would be a process for a subsequent Senate to "nullify" a conviction.
It's a silly notion.
Presumably the OP was inspired by reports that Trump is suing to block the NY State investigation. But even if that suit had merit, it wouldn't mean anything with respect to the Clinton impeachment, which did not involve a state criminal process. It involved impeachment by the House, and the Trump lawsuit doesn't challenge the right of the House to investigate a president for criminal actions - indeed, it points to the impeachment process as the only proper way of investigating a pursuing a sitting president.
So the OP suggestion is not only silly, it's a non-sequitur.