Democrats warn Trump on pardon powers: 'You are not a king'
Source: Politico
As President Donald Trump claims an "absolute right" to pardon himself, top Democratic lawmakers are countering with their own message: "You are not a king."
"The restoration of King George lll without his splendid education,morals,or grace," Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, tweeted, linking to Trump's post claiming unfettered power to pardon himself for any potential crimes.
Cohen's rejoinder followed a similar comparison by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. Nader noted that no president had ever tried to pardon himself and that the framers of the Constitution believed such a notion was "inherently corrupt."
A third Democrat on the committee also rejected Trump's argument for a similar reason: "Let me remind you of something, we don't live in a monarchy and you are not a king," said Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.).
Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/06/04/trump-pardon-tweet-620658
Shot across the bow.
louis-t
(23,314 posts)Then stand back and watch the fireworks. Even deplorables will begin to question how much time he spends screaming at people and not doing much presidentin'.
Drive this message.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)a legend in his own mind.
Humper-Dumper is about to take a great fall, which all the King's horses and all the king's men couldn't put back together again.
orangecrush
(19,666 posts)is on very thin legal ice.
SWBTATTReg
(22,216 posts)orangecrush
(19,666 posts)These words have been addressed to a sitting president.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,775 posts)Even they can't ride roughshod over their nations's constitutions.
orangecrush
(19,666 posts)That monarchs never had.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)King John vs the barons of the time. Even the elite of the elite then were sick of their monarch's shit, and they let him know, under no uncertain terms, that he did not have ultimate authority over the law of the land.
Trump desperately wants to be a tinpot dictator who controls everything, like so many other tinpot dictators who have existed over time, the ones who have always been thrown on the ash heap of history in ignominy.
orangecrush
(19,666 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)orangecrush
(19,666 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)We are Americans. We don't want no stinking republican king.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)n/t
MBS
(9,688 posts)In Watergate, at least some Republicans stepped up to the plate.
Now the only ones are speaking up at all are those who aren't running for reelection, and even then, as others have said on this thread, it's pretty much empty words.
I agree that history won't be kind to them, but in the meantime, I don't want them to take the country down with them.
orangecrush
(19,666 posts)in our history forever.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,056 posts)And there are - crickets chirping.
Oh sure, a couple may say something critical, but then... Do. Absolutely. Nothing.
orangecrush
(19,666 posts)I'm certain.
spooky3
(34,528 posts)MBS
(9,688 posts)Though I think that even Henry the VIII had more redeeming features than Cadet Bone Spurs.
Some sense of decorum, which Trump utterly lacks.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)MBS
(9,688 posts)Maybe especially Idi Amin. He sure does seem to see Putin, Kim Jon Unglanceable, Erdogan as kindred spirits.
True Blue American
(17,996 posts)Henry the V111 did if he could.
Aristus
(66,530 posts)We think of him as this bellowing buffoon, but Henry VIII is still, to this day, the best-educated king Great Britain has ever had.
True Blue American
(17,996 posts)Are warning him. Chuck Grassley said, If an Attorney told him he could pardon himself he would be looking for a new Lawyer!
orangecrush
(19,666 posts)or he wouldn't be squirming like this.
Hekate
(91,036 posts)orangecrush
(19,666 posts)It is encouraging to see Democrats calling him out.
Javaman
(62,540 posts)driving home that he's a repuke.
orangecrush
(19,666 posts)Every time they speak to the press.
Uncle Joe
(58,562 posts)Thanks for the thread orangecrush