and preserves a fig leaf of barely abiding by the law to keep from being imprisoned himself. Trump has collected the most fetid, lawless group of monsters in the history of the nation.

malaise

(269,157 posts)

2. and just as racist

Reply to Skidmore (Reply #1)

Sat Aug 26, 2017, 07:39 PM

Aug 2017

Yes this bunch of ReTHUG goons are deplorable in every sense of the word. I've never seen anything like this.
Question the Coh guy in the cabinet - is he related to Roy Cohn?

StatGirl

(518 posts)

3. Sessions is just waiting this out . . .

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sat Aug 26, 2017, 08:01 PM

Aug 2017

So that he can be Pence's AG, or even the next vice president.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)

4. Is that another obstruction of justice matter?

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sat Aug 26, 2017, 08:06 PM

Aug 2017

Link to tweet

malaise

(269,157 posts)

6. Looks that way

Reply to L. Coyote (Reply #4)

Sat Aug 26, 2017, 08:56 PM

Aug 2017

Mueller must be taking notes

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)

10. Asking the AG to drop a case against a political ally is the kind of thing people get impeached for.

Reply to malaise (Reply #6)

Sat Aug 26, 2017, 11:00 PM

Aug 2017

Link to tweet

lame54

(35,317 posts)

5. Sessions probably advised him on the pardon route

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sat Aug 26, 2017, 08:51 PM

Aug 2017

malaise

(269,157 posts)

7. Not sure because I think it was around the same time that the Con was attacking Sessions

Reply to lame54 (Reply #5)

Sat Aug 26, 2017, 08:57 PM

Aug 2017

over the recusal

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)

8. This gets at the real question

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sat Aug 26, 2017, 09:35 PM

Aug 2017

Trump backed off the Arpaio case after being advised it would be inappropriate, but that he even tried is “beyond the pale,” said Chiraag Bains, a former senior counsel in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

Bains said he believes Trump “has a sense that the chief executive controls everything in the executive branch, including the exercise of criminal power. And that is just not the way the system is set up.”

So he discussed it with Sessions and then went ahead. I want to know if getting consent from the DOJ is a must for the pardon to be legal or if consent is just another "tradition" that every single president in history has followed (until tRump). So far, I have not seen a clear argument either way.