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Kay Bradley

Tobacco Timeline: The Seventeenth Century--The Great Age of the Pipe - 2 views

www.tobacco.org/...Tobacco_History17.html

US History colonies

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  • Kay Bradley on 23 Sep 10
     
    Fascinating! Scroll down to 1613, and then to 1620--check out how rapidly the export of tobacco took off! no wonder the owners of the Jamestown Joint Stock company kept shipping people over to Jamestown. . . there was huge profit to be had in cultivating tobacco! Notice also the countries that tried to prohibit tobacco in the early years of its availability in Europe and Asia. . .
Natalie Garrett

Amendments: Natalie and Anna F block - 18 views

Amendments First: Religious & Political Freedom Congress must not interfere with freedom of religion, speech or press, assembly & petition. 4th: Searches & Seizures Unreasonable searches are ...

Constitution

started by Natalie Garrett on 11 Nov 10 no follow-up yet
Chelsea Wirth

Article 1- Congress as a Whole 17,18,20,21 - 17 views

17. Once a bill has passed through the House and Senate, it goes to the president where he signs it to make it official. However, if he doesn't agree with the law, he can exercise his power of Veto...

started by Chelsea Wirth on 11 Nov 10 no follow-up yet
Kay Bradley

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

www.nytimes.com/...ined-russia-investigation.html

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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