9th June 2017, 11:30 AM
The emoluments issue is major. That's definitely something a lawsuit should come from. The issue is, the republican congress and Mitch McConnell the turtle in his "coming out of his shell" tour have come up with a strategy no one saw coming: Just... just refuse to actually consider the things you are supposed to consider. You don't have to say no if you just say nothing at all! That's how the emoluments issue has been skirted, and how Obama's court nominee got denied. What I'm saying is it should absolutely be pursued, regardless of whether or not this is going to be the thing to get Trump impeached.
By the way, does anyone know if a president that's sitting in jail gets to keep being president? I really don't know how that works.
Edit: Okay, apparently the current legal understanding is even if the president is literally killing homeless people and burying them in the white house lawn, he won't be pursued or arrested for trial for an action like that until AFTER his term, so as not to interfere with the government operations of the country.
By the way, does anyone know if a president that's sitting in jail gets to keep being president? I really don't know how that works.
Edit: Okay, apparently the current legal understanding is even if the president is literally killing homeless people and burying them in the white house lawn, he won't be pursued or arrested for trial for an action like that until AFTER his term, so as not to interfere with the government operations of the country.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)