It just gets worse.
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From some 15 minutes of research, best I can determine is as with many things in this day and age that simply defy belief is, “it’s complicated”. Some say since it’s a federal criminal crime that yes he could pardon contempt of Congress. Others say that if this were the case then it would violate the separation of powers.
Even if he couldn’t issue a pardon the maximum penalty Congress can impose is 1 year in jail and $100k in fines which for a Trump True Believer is a walk in the park.
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The flip side is pardons come with the fat caveat that the pardonee can be compelled to testify on the crime for which they’ve received a pardon. 45 shouldn’t want that to happen.
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I’m not sure it’s really that limited. If you are in contempt of court because you are refusing to testify or to turn over something you have to turn over, they can hold you indefinitely until you agree to comply. I imagine congress can do something like the same. But if they can’t, then after you finish your year for refusing their subpoena, they could probably issue another subpoena.
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As the body that creates laws, I bet that they have old buried teeth that are rarely needed (if ever, up until now).
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I did some more research. For Congress to enforce a CoC charge (which is a misdemeanor) they have to hand it off to the DoJ. Obviously the DoJ could just refuse to act. In the event that someone in Trump’s administration was actually thrown in jail for contempt, Trump could just pardon them since it would be a federal criminal act. Trump himself is immune from criminal charges as long as he’s president.
It seems like Trump is trying desperately to run out the clock on this and he’s testing boundaries nobody has ever tried to cross before because he’s just a nihilist that doesn’t give a fuck about the office he represents.
It’s all a shit sandwich.
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Yeah, found that out and I was floored. Congress just has no oversight over the executive, the game is up. If both houses were together in holding the administration to account with a veto proof majority they could do something. Otherwise congress is toothless.
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Yun called then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and told him about the bill. Tillerson called Trump. They instructed their envoy to sign the piece of paper agreeing that the $2 million would be paid, the two people said.
Trump paying ransom to score a political victory? Sounds plausible to me.
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He probably thinks about it in terms of a advertising budget expense.
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Remove Mosques, but adopting your teenage girlfriend so you can sleep with her is a-okay… /s
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- I assume this is completely 100% true
- This is completely impossible
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It’s completely true.
http://polipace.com/2018/03/31/nras-ted-nugent-sex-adopted-daughter-wrote-song/
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Not only not impossible, but more common than you might think, sadly.
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He also shit himself to get out of service in Vietnam. And Courtney Love claimed that he forced her to engage in oral sex with him when she was a younger teen. He’s a piece of shit.
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"Don’t put those handcuffs on me
Put them on her, and I’ll share her with you"
WTF? What a POS he is.
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I’ve resolved my mental issue with the Ted Nugent thing. I was reading “adopted a teenage girl so he could have sex with her” as meaning that somehow adopting a girl made it legal for him to have sex with her, as opposed to adopting a kid to get physical access to the kid and then committing crimes.
The former seemed impossible, the latter seems like exactly the sort of thing a rich pedophile would do.
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Hmmmmm. Why the change? He’s been anti-vax for years.
Public White House tours getting a little too close for comfort maybe?
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No worries. He’ll tweet something stupid about vaccination soon.
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The Nuge spews bigoted bullshit? And water is wet. Story at 11.
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