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He was properly charged with crimes within the system we have,
said Kristy Parker, a special counsel at Protect Democracy, an advocacy organization dedicated to countering what it calls authoritarian threats to the US Parker said
Further maneuvering on these cases in the weeks ahead would serve no legitimate purpose and only distract the country and the incoming administration from the task at hand,
Barr said
In light of the effect that an indictment would have on the operations of the executive branch, ‘an impeachment proceeding is the only appropriate way to deal with a President while in office,
the memo concluded, quoting the earlier conclusion
The idea that you could win an election to avoid justice just cuts so deeply against my expectations for our legal system and for our politics too,
said Joyce Vance, a former U.S. attorney and NBC News contributor
Sensible, inevitable and unfortunate,
said former federal prosecutor Chuck Rosenberg, an NBC News contributor
That case is rife with legal abuse and error,
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We got immunity at the Supreme Court,
Trump told Hugh Hewitt last monthThe public interest now demands that the country unite and focus on the challenges we face at home and abroad. Attorney General Garland and all the state prosecutors should do the right thing and help the country move forward by dismissing the cases,
he addedIt would also be possible to have a deferred sentence if it involved any jail term,
said Claire Finkelstein, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania
It is time to look forward to a new chapter in your legal careers as these politically motivated charges against President Trump hit a wall,
Graham wrote
Oh, it’s so easy. It’s so easy … I would fire him within two seconds.”
In a conversation with the conservative podcast host Hugh Hewitt, who asked whether Trump would pardon himself or fire the special counsel, Trump saidThe American people have rendered their verdict on President Trump, and decisively chosen him to lead the country for the next four years,
Barr said in an interview with Fox News
They did that with full knowledge of the claims against him by prosecutors around the country and I think Attorney General Garland and the state prosecutors should respect the people's decision and dismiss the cases against President Trump now,
he addedHe'll be one of the first things addressed,
Trump said last month
Ironic isn’t it? The man in charge of enforcing laws can now just break them.”
When reading her dissent aloud from the bench in July, Justice Sonia Sotomayor had bristled
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We will continue to view and handle our bilateral relations under the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation,
said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning at a press conference WednesdayThe friendship between Canada and the US is the envy of the world,
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Trump has one useful quality for us: as a businessman to the core, he mortally dislikes spending money on various hangers–on and stupid hanger-on allies, on bad charity projects and on voracious international organisations."
Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian president and now the deputy chair of the Security Council of Russia, posted on his official Telegram account
I always am interested in serving this country. I'm doing it now in the United States Senate,
he told CNN's Kasie Hunt on Wednesday morningCitizens across this country, our courts, members of the press and those serving in our federal, state and local governments must now be the guardrails of democracy,
she wrote on X, formerly Twitter