New York Prosecutors Can Go After Trump Now, Even If Mueller Won't

[Miles Archer]

New York Prosecutors Can Go After Trump Now, Even If Mueller Won’t

https://www.dcreport.org/2018/08/22/new-york-prosecutors-can-go-after-trump-now-even-if-mueller-wont/

Michael Cohen’s admission today in federal court that he committed felonies at the direction of Donald Trump exposes the president to criminal prosecution in New York State, an angle the mainstream news organizations have all missed.

State prosecution is a critical concern because Trump has the constitutional authority to pardon Cohen, or commute his sentence, for federal crimes. Trump claims he can pardon himself and continue in office.

Trump has claimed the power to fire Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor, or hobble his inquiry, and authority to take over the investigation and even run it himself.

But Trump has no power to stop any state-level criminal investigation or pardon anyone convicted of state crimes.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Mueller already has planned for Plan B and C.

Being several steps ahead of Trump, Mueller is playing a masterful game of chess.

[exboyfil]

2. So the NYPD goes to arrest

Trump while he is visiting New York, what do you think will happen? I can tell you what will happen to any requests to extradite.

[SummerSnow]

3. As long as I am there to see it.

[marylandblue]

4. It will go to the SCOTUS

Who knows how this court will rule, but there is a stronger case that a state could indict the president that the federal government could.

Some have argued that would open a huge can of worms, nonetheless, legally speaking, states are separate sovereign entities, and have a right to enforce their own laws