Haven't looked for verification, but Judge Napolitano speaking on Fox News said unequivocally that she could pardon herself. Not for crimes while in office, but crimes prior.The Wall wrote:She can't pardon herself although she thinks she can.
As for impeachment, we all know how that worked out with her husband. Nothing but a slap on the wrist for 'ol Bill who was caught virtually red-handed. Didn't remove him from office and didn't hinder him receiving six figures for future speaking engagements...or from now "earning" millions from the Clinton Foundation. (I haven't understood how Hillary could make Trump's lack of respect for women a focal point--even for paid TV commercials--and not come under fire from the media for it. Oh, sorry. There's that word "media," isn't there?)
Maybe his seeming Parkinson's Disease will begin to slow him down, but his indiscretions while in the White House never did.
The average attention span of a goldfish is nine seconds, but according to a 2015 study from Microsoft, people--collectively--now generally lose concentration after eight seconds. And yes, it's generational. Used to be only 12 seconds in 2000, so some of us can't crow. But God help us all.
Reality check: only two presidents in the history of this great country have been impeached by the House of Representatives, and both were later acquitted by the Senate. Andrew Johnson, who became president after Lincoln was assassinated. The year before, the House had passed an ill-advised "Tenure of Office Act"...assumed at the time to specifically protect questionable Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton. Johnson fired Stanton.
Whether right or wrong, ideologically biased or merited, Johnson was impeached for an administrative decision. Pure and simple.
While I can't provide you a definitive definition of what the word "is" is, Bill Clinton blatantly disgraced the highest office of the land. Only the second president to ever be impeached. The first and only president to be impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice in a sexual harassment lawsuit.
And now Bill's wife, whom the majority of Americans agree is untrustworthy, is campaigning about Trump's misogyny? Seriously?
And yet she and/or her employees are accused or suspected of violating at least nine federal laws?
- U.S. Code § 798 — Disclosure of classified information
- U.S. Code § 1031 — Major fraud against the United States
- U.S. Code § 371 — Conspiracy to commit a federal offense
- U.S. Code § 1924 — Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material
- U.S. Code § 2071(b) — Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally
- U.S. Code § 1343 — Fraud by wire, radio or television
- U.S. Code § 1505 — Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees
- U.S. Code § 1519 — Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations
- 18 U.S. Code § 793 — Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
Good Lord help us all if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency.
