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They've already suspended his sentencing indefinitely due to the election win.
by baggachipz 2y ago
They've already suspended his sentencing indefinitely due to the election win.
- freejazz 2y agoWho? Trump? What does that have to do with anything?
- jazzyjackson 2y agoWell supposedly federal govt can't intervene in state cases but the conviction against trump is at the state level, so why isn't he being sentenced? Because power isn't about rules.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoAs others said above, the president has certain immunities to prevent constitutional crises. But that's only for the president, and it's not part of his pardoning powers (which wouldn't work here anyway).
- jazzyjackson 2y agoSo why isn't he going to jail for felony falsification of business records (forget the classified records case, he's not meant to be immune from that but here we are) My point is that power is not about what the law says, it's about what people can get away with through their relations with other people.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoTrump or Jones? I agree but the cases are very different. There's not much worth comparing them. It's different kinds of corruption.
- freejazz 2y agoHis conviction wasn't overturned, they are just delaying his sentencing because he's now going to be the president again. He's not doing it by any power of the federal gov't.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoExactly, there's no rule (certainly no federal rule) that says a guy can't go to jail just because he was elected president. So why isn't he? Because he has power that is not assigned to him by any law. He is a bully with a cult of personality that makes people fear him and/or act as his sycophants.
- crazygringo 2y agoThat's a non-sequitur. Justice departments don't go after presidents or president-elects in order to prevent a constitutional crisis. Impeachment is the remedy in that case. This policy is entirely unrelated to presidential pardon power.
- altcognito 2y agoYou're not going after a "President". You are going after a law breaker. He can be President all day long in jail. The reality is that we've codified that Presidents are largely unable to be investigated and or held to account by the legal system. There was no carve outs in the constitution at any point for anybody in government. This is a new, and probably fatal invention.
- crazygringo 2y ago> The reality is that we've codified that Presidents are largely unable to be investigated and or held to account by the legal system. They can be investigated and held to account by Congress. That's what impeachment is. That's the whole point of having impeachment in the constitution. If Congress fails to exercise its constitutional duty, then the problem lies with the specific representatives that place party above country.
- dllthomas 2y agoIt feels really gross that he was acquitted in the second impeachment partly because he argued that criminal court was the appropriate venue for the issue, and then turned around and argued in criminal court that he was immune for not having been convicted in the impeachment.
- altcognito 2y agoI apologize for not getting back to you earlier on this (if you see it at all!) We've seen it fail over and over. They won't investigate their own seriously, and even when they find the grossest violations of law, they cover it up. The idea that there will be justice by the voters is laughable.