BostonBurns
Insufferable Bastard
There's a case up before the dockets that they want Kavanaugh to be able to have a SCOTUS decision about; I'm sorry I don't recall the case name ATM, but it involves allowing a broad expansion of POTUS powers of pardoning to include state felonies, which has always been impossible under the constitution and in legal precedent. That, combined with Kavanaugh's current stance that the POTUS can't be charged/face trial in criminal or civil courts while in office, and can not be impeached - even though he was on Ken Starr's Special Prosecutor team and had some very intense and extreme questions regarding Clinton's sexuality/practices he wanted asked, and was quite proud that he helped Clinton's senate impeachment -IMO, these are the only reasons they insist on pushing Kavanaugh through the nomination process as quickly as possible, before the midterms.
Clinton faced civil charges during his office tenure, so again, legal precedent contradicts all of Kavanaugh's current stances.
A Supreme Court Case Could Liberate Trump to Pardon His Associates
Gamble v. United States isn’t related to the Russia investigation. But the outcome—which one senior Republican senator has tried to influence—could still have consequences for the probe.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/trump-pardon-orrin-hatch-supreme-court/571285/
Within the context of the Mueller probe, legal observers have seen the dual-sovereignty doctrine as a check on President Donald Trump’s power: It could discourage him from trying to shut down the Mueller investigation or pardon anyone caught up in the probe, because the pardon wouldn’t be applied to state charges. Under settled law, if Trump were to pardon his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, for example—he was convicted last month in federal court on eight counts of tax and bank fraud—both New York and Virginia state prosecutors could still charge him for any crimes that violated their respective laws. (Both states have a double-jeopardy law that bars secondary state prosecutions for committing “the same act,” but there are important exceptions, as the Fordham University School of Law professor Jed Shugerman has noted.) If the dual-sovereignty doctrine were tossed, as Hatch wants, then Trump’s pardon could theoretically protect Manafort from state action.
