Broken promises: Biden hasn’t revisited presidential immunity despite campaign pledge

PResident Joe Biden In 2019, he told reporters that if he was elected president, he would need the Justice Department To revisit the subject of Presidency immunityHe said he would, but he hasn’t lived up to it two years later.

Biden claimed that he did not agree with Justice Department’s previous opinions that a president couldn’t be indicted during his term. “not above the law.”

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The Justice Department’s lawyers were there during President Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, and again after President Bill Clinton was sacked for his scandal with Monica Lewinsky. Office of Legal Counsel In 1973 and 2000, it was determined that presidents could not be charged with crimes while they were in office by prosecutors. However, the Constitution does not explicitly state that this is possible.

“The opinions that the Department of Justice has issued in the past, immunizing the president from accountability for criminal conduct for as long as he is in office, have been called into serious question by leading constitutional scholars,” Biden Telled The New York Times In 2019. “These rulings also communicate to the public the un-American, false notion that remaining in the Oval Office is a ‘stay-out-of-jail’ pass.”

Biden stated that if elected, he would direct the department to review all opinions issued in the Nixon and Clinton eras.

“If it is determined that they are in error and a misreading of our constitutional law, revise or withdraw them,” He stated.

His statement was made shortly after special counsel. Robert Mueller His investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 election was completed. Mueller had rendered “no judgment” Whether the then-President Donald Trump During Mueller’s inquiry, had committed obstruction of justice crime.

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