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The Obama Prosecutions of 2013 or 2017:

David Kopel @ the Volokh Conspiracy put forth a fun exercise I thought might be great for RedState readers to participate in. First the question then the rules:

Hypothesize that the Obama administration, or perhaps foreign/international courts, prosecute and convict various officials of the Bush administration. Further assume that the new President who takes office in 2013 or 2017 has promised “I will ensure that the crimes of the previous administration are vigorously prosecuted.”

Which, if any, acts of the First 100 Days of the Obama administration might be prosecuted? In answering the question, you may aggressively interpret any statute, treaty, jurisdictional claim, etc., in favor of the prosecution, but the interpretation may not involve a greater stretch than would be required to hypothesize the convictions of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, their attorneys, CIA officers, and so on.

So the question has been posed and the groud rules set… what say you?

COMMENTS

  • Steve Foley

    …right off the top of my head would be the prosecution of the Obama administration for violating the Habeas Corpus rights of the prisoners held at Bagram Air Base outside Kabul, Afghanistan

  • JadedByPolitics

    to The Imitation Christ what he wants to do to our President! I do believe the left is so STUPID that they think WE will EVER be silent again!

  • restofva
    • http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

      They usually go hand in hand and Obama is no exception.

  • http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

    via the right wing “assessment”. Considering this Congress is the one that put in place what constitutes a hate crime, that report they disseminated is a hate crime and it will lead to people being discriminated against.

    Slavery via the GIVE Act.

    Depraved indifference: People are going to die because of their policies.

    Tax evasion.

    Violating civil rights.

    I believe that’s enough for now.

  • penguin2
  • http://beaglescout.wordpress.com LJ “Beaglescout” Miller

    Perjury traps can be laid for all of them. For instance, Her Excellency Madame Speaker Pelosi the Most Political lied today and yesterday about hearings she attended.

    I can’t even think about how to persecute them from their own left flank. That’s perverse!