A Quote by John Ratcliffe
The Democrats keep repeating over and over again, 'the President is not above the law.' I've said it before, 'the President is not above the law' but he damn sure shouldn't be below it either.
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In our system of government, the president is not supposed to be above the law. He is not a king; his word is not the law.
Of course no president, Democratic or Republican - no president - is above the law, as neither are you, nor I, nor anyone.
No one is above the law, not even the President.
I was raised to believe nobody is above the law - especially not a president.
This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.
Impeachment is our system's last resort for someone who treats himself or herself as above the law, the most relevant thing is whether this president, by his recent course of action, on top of his violations of the foreign corruption or emoluments clause, this president has shone that he cannot be trusted to remain within the law and our constitution's last resort for situations of that kind is to get the person out of office.
I do not agree with the use of 'signing statements' to effectively act as a line-item veto, except when the President believes a law or a provision within a law is unconstitutional.In general, if a President signs a law, they are committing themselves to enforcing it. If they don't believe it should become a law, they should veto it.
I am charged with violating pledges which I never gave; and because I execute what I believe to be the law, with usurping powers not conferred by law; and above all, with using the powers conferred upon the President by the Constitution, from corrupt motives and for unwarrantable ends.
If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.
We are a nation of laws. And nobody can ignore our Constitution. No one's above the law. And that includes the president of the United States.
No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] wrote - and this is one we should all remember - she wrote that even war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens. She held that even this president is not above the law.
The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.
The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.
Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.
