i'd like to talk obstruction b/c that claim keeps getting

Posted on: January 31, 2018 at 18:34:22 CT

thrown around pretty nonchalantly by people here.

18 USC Ch 73 Sections 1501 to 1521
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-73

take the time to go through those and see if you can find one applicable to what you THINK Trump may be guilty of.

if you read them, you will be left with 1505 and 1510 . none of the others apply at all.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1510

and

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1505

but consider that FBI investigation are NOT 1505 proceedings per case law and the US Attorneys' Criminal Resource Manual:

"However, investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are not section 1505 proceedings. United States v. Higgins, 511 F. Supp. 453, 455-56 (W.D. Ky. 1981); see also United States v. Scoratow, 137 F. Supp. 620, 621-22 (W.D. Pa. 1956) (FBI investigation is not a 18 U.S.C. § 1503 "proceeding"). But cf. 18 U.S.C. §§ 1510 and 1512(b)(3), (c)(2)."

so that leaves us only with section 1510 which is specifically about bribery so that is also out.

what are you left with? NOTHINGBURGER criminally speaking.

however; he could be impeached for whatever the house of representatives wants to impeach him for in reality as several Dems have already tried, unsuccessfully to do.

this is Mueller's end game. a recommendation for impeachment on the grounds of obstruction that don't even meet the elements of a criminal charge.

then it's simply a political game of numbers and dems don't have them and aren't likely to have them.

Edited by blake1771 at 18:39:18 on 01/31/18