and perhaps the day has arrived where what they did with the law for a blowjob, we will use for criminal acts.

How about that! Applying the law to real insidious criminal acts.

years later, and forgotten about it.

Especially since Starr has come back on the scene to steal our votes, I believe.

too bad they don't put in that much time constructively helping the country.

As our ex-president to be says - Sad.

(in the House at that time) going on and on and on about "rule of law! rule of law! rule of law!"

And where is the Senator NOW on "rule of law??" CRICKETS

saying, "is this machine working...is this thang on?"

led by Lindsey Graham
It was a recreation of the Salem Witch trials. I've always hated him. He has not changed that much, but the RW has gone to the far Right of him, making him a moderate in this Senate. Who would have thought that possible after Obama. He's trying to get DACA through.

Whaaaa....Archie Cox was wrong???? He is right no one in this country is supposed to be above the law. That hasn't been the case, but in theory it is correct. They are thinking because a sitting president can't be sued it is the same thing.

Once again the Brown Shirts cherry picking laws. Time to disabuse them of that diversion.

Doubly so if their own argument for indictment gets to be used against them...gods how they would scream about the unfairness of it all...

including its author, most assuredly picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue.

The fly in the ointment is finding a U.S. Attorney who will convene a grand jury to consider the evidence of any crimes President Trump may have committed. If you see one, he or she is probably riding a unicorn. And the unicorn is farting rainbows. And there's a pot of Russian hooker pee at the end of each of the rainbows.

I'm quite sure he's 'into' the process being as humiliating to the lady involved as possible, involving 'begging', 'loving it', etc.

ultimately it would be up to the Supreme Court to decide.

...and, Trump is hoping he can stack that deck before such a question comes before them.

was that no one, not even the President, is above the law.

Remember "unindicted co-conspirator"?

Are people even questioning if a POTUS could not be indicted for treason?
And why /how can a POTUS pardon someone for treason?

doesn't say "except in cases of treason" when discussing the President's pardon power.

Considering that George Washington actually pardoned people convicted of treason I'd
say that there's no doubt a President can do so.

thus allowing him to escape the penalties of the law.

I was around then. I was living in the DC area at the time. I recall quite clearly various pundits and editorials pontificating that the pardon was the right thing to do, but I was not at all alone in being totally furious, in thinking that Nixon should have paid the full penalty. He should have died in jail. Instead, as too often happens, he became canonized as a "senior statesman" when he was still the slimy used car salesman he'd always been.

Similarly, John McCain's brain cancer is making people forget what a terrible person he's been. He was lionized here on DU many years ago as some sort of liberal, when he NEVER was even remotely liberal. He has steadily opposed policies and legislation that would improve the lives or ordinary people, and somehow, now, he's sacrosanct?

No. He gets to live and die by what he's actually said and done over the years.

And never forget he was willing to inflict Sarah Palin on us. That alone should condemn him.

on the left, are reframing Dubya as a lovable buffoon. The man who took us to war with the wrong country. The man who laughed and joked about looking for the "missing WMDs" under his desk while thousands and thousands of people died. I loathe 45 with the white-hot fury of a thousand suns but it will never make me forget that Duyba should be rotting in jail for war crimes.

they now find inconvenient.

That's the trouble with changing the rules to suit the moment; someday the other side may benefit from it.

They got rid of it

Reagan and both bushes would've been impeached by the Starr standard

They SHOULDve been

Good to know, Mr. Starr. Thanks, NYT.

it only applies if the POTUS is a Democrat.

This also explains why Trump can get indicted.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029358446

And we all thought that vast, right-wing conspiracy was a completely useless waste of taxpayer monies.

If AFTER the election, they are likely to be deemed part of official duties. If before..no way.

Oh nevermind. I didn't have my glasses on.

been a remarkable 3 days ... wonder if something is very imminent

It's Okay If You're A Republican. IOKIYAR.

Clinton lied about a blow-job.

Donald Trump is killing off millions with his "Don't Care" healthcare plan, destroying the American government, allowing Russians to hijack our electoral process, laundering money for Russian Oligarchs, breaking the emoluments clause to an exponential degree, and a host of other dirty, dastardly and unlawful things.

No problem. In the Republican controlled Congress's opinion, Trump hasn't done ANYTHING WRONG!

But that BLOWJOB! LOCK HIM AND HER UP! HITLERY DELETED EMAILS AND WASHED THEM IN ACID! And although the FBI could find nothing to charge them with, they should both swing from a gallows constructed in the Capital Rotunda.

Let the punishment fit the crime, you know?