Look at the headliner of 18 U.S.C. 2071 which applies to any government employee with the exception of a POTUS (Biden was VP when these records were possibly put into office space he occupied as a private citizen):
Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any …
I think a conviction means not eligible for running for public office going forward for at least three years…
The left leaning press usually provides cover for Biden. NOT NOW!
Check out this excerpt from CNN’s Stephen Collinson piece last night:
"Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, a staunch Trump ally, meanwhile demanded a special counsel be appointed to handle the Biden documents furor. It is becoming hard to see how Attorney General Merrick Garland, who has taken strenuous steps to show the DOJ is not politicized, can resist such calls amid rising political pressure. "
Always. The laws should be applied equally, to all. It’s my understanding though that the POTUS has the authority to declassify those documents where as the VP does not.
What do you make of a CBS reporter, not exactly the most moderate left leaning outlet out there, having their own White House Correspondent getting snippy yesterday with Karine Jean-Pierre?
If Trump is convicted of violating this statute, can he be disqualified from the presidency? No. And my colleague Seth Barrett Tillman wrote about this precise issue in 2015. At the time, conservative commentators, including former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, argued that Hillary Clinton could be disqualified from the presidency due to the storage of classified materials on her private email server. Seth explained that Mukasey’s argument does not work.
Under Powell v. McCormack and U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton, Congress and the states cannot “add to the express textual qualifications for House and Senate seats in Article I.” And that reasoning, Seth concluded, would seem to apply to the qualifications for the presidency in Article II. Several courts in the Seventh Circuit, and elsewhere, reached that same conclusion.
Will you at least agree it seems like the decision for Biden to run again is not really one he is making on his own with Jill/his more immediate family?
After all, the timing of this scandal breaking now is interesting to put it mildly (a Biden visit to the border looked to some as a precursor to a 2024 campaign announcement being imminent.
And again, perhaps insiders of #46’s own administration (Susan Rice?) with the aid of the left press are plotting and scheming possibly setting the stage to throw Joe and family under the proverbial bus…
