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Kay Bradley

It's official: Clinton swamps Trump in popular vote - CNNPolitics.com - 0 views

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  • he Democrat outpaced President-elect Donald Trump by almost 2.9 million votes, with 65,844,954 (48.2%) to his 62,979,879 (46.1%),
  • Clinton's 2.1% margin ranks third among defeated candidates
  • Andrew Jackson won by more than 10% in 1824
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  • n 1876, Samuel Tilden received 3% more votes than Rutherford B. Hayes
Emma Hurlbert

Clinton's Post Cold War Policy and Why It Didn't Work - 1 views

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/us-foreign-policy-postcold-war-world-defeats-clinton-as-president-prepares-to-travel-to-europe-for-dday-ceremony-independent-writers-assess-his-track-record-...

foreign policy Clinton post cold war

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Kay Bradley

What Is Obstruction of Justice? An Often Murky Crime, Explained - The New York Times - 0 views

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shared by Kay Bradley on 17 May 17 - No Cached
  • national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn,
  • he was thinking about the F.B.I.’s investigation into contacts between his campaign associates and Russia, which he has derided as fake news, when he did so.
  • After a report that Mr. Trump had asked Mr. Comey whether he was loyal to him, the president
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  • better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations.”
  • “The president has never asked Mr. Comey or anyone else to end any investigation, including any investigation involving General Flynn.”
  • Several federal statutes criminalize actions that impede official investigations.
  • the law also includes broad, catchall prohibitions. For example, Sections 1503, 1505 and 1512 of Title 18 have variants of language making it a crime if someone corruptly “obstructs, influences or impedes any official proceeding.”
  • Could that cover asking the F.B.I. director to drop part of an investigation, and later firing him?
  • In theory, yes.
  • the power relationship
  • Did Trump have lawful authority to fire Comey?
  • But courts have ruled that otherwise lawful acts can constitute obstruction of justice if done with corrupt
  • example
  • intentions
  • ad filed legal complaints and related motions against a government agent who was investigating an illegal gambling operation
  • What would such a case entail, in theory?
  • prove defendants’ mental state
  • chieving that obstruction has to have been the specific intention.
  • Samuel Buell,
  • But he said on Tuesday that subsequent revelations have made the evidence much more robust.
  • “The evidence of improper purpose has gotten much stronger since the day of Comey’s firing,”
  • What impediments would there be to charging Mr. Trump?
  • it was not realistic to expect the Trump administration’s Justice Department to charge the sitting president.
  • to appoint a special counsel to handle it.
  • What about impeachment?
  • Bill Clinton in 1998 and Richard M. Nixon in 1974 — were accused of obstruction of justice.
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