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Article #2716Re: Mister President, resign!
From: Charles Demas
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 00:00
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In article <36040E97.B8950AF2@pobox.com>, Deckard <ab2@pobox.com> wrote: > >Perjury and obstruction of justice are legal charges, which are >appropriately and generally handled by the courts. As are sexual >harrassment charges. Congress has taken this power away from the >courts. IIRC, a sitting President cannot be indicted in a court of law for criminal charges. If he is impeached, and convicted only then may he be indicted, tried, and if then convicted subject to such penalties as the law may impose. Chuck Demas Needham, Mass. -- Eat Healthy | _ _ | Nothing would be done at all, Stay Fit | @ @ | If a man waited to do it so well, Die Anyway | v | That no one could find fault with it. demas@tiac.net | \___/ | http://www.tiac.net/users/demas
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1130cb,e53c1beb4682ad40 X-Google-Attributes: gid1130cb,public X-Google-Thread: 111baa,e53c1beb4682ad40 X-Google-Attributes: gid111baa,public X-Google-Thread: 103916,e53c1beb4682ad40 X-Google-Attributes: gid103916,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,e53c1beb4682ad40 X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public From: demas@sunspot.tiac.net (Charles Demas) Subject: Re: Mister President, resign! Date: 1998/09/19 Message-ID: <6u1d5v$nc8@news-central.tiac.net> X-Deja-AN: 392847184 References: <35E68C3B.C482886A@nh.ultranet.com> <36032070.61CF61FE@pobox.com> <3603A1BF.37CF@aufait.net> <36040E97.B8950AF2@pobox.com> Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Newsgroups: ne.general,vt.general,dc.general,tx.general