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"The constitution gave the president the right to pardon himself," Giuliani said, adding that Trump would not need to because "he didn’t do anything wrong". |
Trump said the same thing on Twitter on Monday, writing, "As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong?" |
In another tweet he called Mueller’s appointment "totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL". |
Trump has denied he colluded with Russians or obstructed justice and repeated in tweets on Monday his frequent claim that the Mueller investigation is a "witch hunt". |
Russia has denied US intelligence agencies’ assessment that Moscow sought to interfere with the 2016 US election to boost Trump’s prospects of becoming president. |
The constitution is silent on the issue of whether the president’s broad power to grant pardons extends to himself, and some lawyers say that supports Trump’s position. |
"If there are any limits on the power, it’s got to be in the constitution," said Samuel Morison, a former lawyer with Justice Department office that handles pardons. "It’s nowhere in the constitution." |
But many legal experts disagree. Andrew Wright, a former associate counsel in the Obama White House, said allowing the president to pardon himself would be contrary to fundamental principles of the American legal system. |
"One of the basic rules is that no man is a judge in his own case," said Wright, a professor at Savannah Law School. |
Trump’s tweet on Monday triggered swift political criticism. |
"You can’t pardon yourself," Democratic US Representative Ted Deutch said on Twitter. "Let me remind you of something, we don’t live in a monarchy and you are not a king." |
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on CNN on Sunday that he did not think a president should pardon himself. |
Giuliani said on Sunday that a move by Trump to pardon himself would likely trigger political blowback leading to his impeachment. |
The comments by Trump and Giuliani follow a report by the New York Times on Saturday of a confidential memo sent to Mueller in January. In that memo, Trump’s lawyers argued the president could not have obstructed the investigation because, as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, he already has the power to termi... |
Many legal experts say the president’s actions could be considered obstruction if prosecutors can show he acted with "corrupt intent". |
Mueller, who was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in the wake of the May 2017 firing of FBI director James Comey, has so far secured five guilty pleas. Among those who have pleaded guilty are former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and Rick Gates, a longtime business partner of Paul Mana... |
Mueller’s team also has charged 13 Russians and three Russian companies. |
The 20-page memo to Mueller came in response to repeated requests by the special counsel’s office asking to interview Trump, according to the Times. |
The memo asserted Mueller could not subpoena Trump to testify because it would interfere with "the president’s prime function as the chief executive" and demean "the office of the president before the world". |
Giuliani on Sunday said that "when you’re interfering with the president, you’re interfering with the country" and suggested the Mueller investigation already was affecting the president’s important work, including a planned June 12 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. |
"We couldn’t have a better example than North Korea," said Giuliani. "Mueller is punching around with this ridiculous investigation and we’ve got nuclear nightmare possibilities or nuclear peace with North Korea." |
Trump already has raised questions about his use of the presidential pardon power. Last week he pardoned Dinesh D’Souza, a conservative pundit convicted of campaign finance crimes, and last year he pardoned former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who campaigned for Trump before being convicted in a case regarding racial pro... |
Let us ask God to grant worthy priests, brothers and sisters to serve His Holy Church. |
O God, Who has chosen the apostles to propagate the faith and to establish His Holy Church through the world, we earnestly beseech You to bless this diocese (parish) with many priests, brothers and sisters who will love You with their whole strength and will gladly spend their entire lives in making You known and loved... |
May, Queen of the Clergy, Pray for us. |
St. Joseph, Pray for us. |
The crepe craze of 2009-10 appears to have ended — with no recent openings and two creperie closures — so let the self-serve frozen yogurt fad of 2011 begin. Or continue, actually. |
We told you about YoYogurt and iTopIt's openings back in late February. Now get ready for Lulu's Frozen Yogurt (9475 Briar Village Point, #152, lulusyogurt.com), tentatively set to open May 18 with a grand opening June 4. |
Longtime Springs residents Teri and Larry Lucero are behind the venture, inspired by shops they saw in Phoenix while visiting two of their daughters at college. Lulu's, Teri says, will have 16 rotating yogurt flavors and around 60 toppings. She adds that she's aware of the other self-serve outfits, as well as a Pinkber... |
Named for the Chihuahuan city from which the Baeza family hails, Puerto Palomas Mexican Restaurant (578-7845) opened last Friday at 208 N. Union Blvd. (the former Cubanacan and Bobbi's spot). Owner Carlos Baeza, who also helps run AB Painting & Drywall, says his mother does the cooking from scratch with family recipes. |
He calls the menu a standard Mexican offering, with carne asada, fajitas, rellenos, tamales and the like, including breakfast burritos and egg dishes available all day. The outfit is open for all meals daily, and serves special menudo (beef stomach soup), posole (pork stew) and barbacoa plates on weekends. |
Having come under new ownership in early 2010, India Palace (5644 N. Academy Blvd., 535-9196) once again changed owners this past February. The Springs-raised co-owner of the new regime, Rag Kumar, says his mother does the cooking and has previously cooked at outfits like Taste of India. The new menu features a Norther... |
In late March, Broadway Deli closed its 7170 N. Academy Blvd. location after 10 years in business. The new location at 4475 Northpark Drive remains in operation, though owner Eric Velasquez says a move was never the plan. After weathering the recession, he blames the construction at Woodmen Road and Academy Boulevard f... |
Moody's Investors Service on Wednesday downgraded GMR Infra-run Hyderabad International Airport’s (GHIAL) ratings, citing concerns about the expansion work to be carried out in the next four years at an estimated cost of Rs 5,500 crore. |
The airport handled around 18 million passengers in FY18, growing at 20% year-on-year against a design capacity of 12 mppa. |
Moody’s Investors Service on Wednesday downgraded GMR Infra-run Hyderabad International Airport’s (GHIAL) ratings, citing concerns about the expansion work to be carried out in the next four years at an estimated cost of Rs 5,500 crore. The credit rating agency has reasoned lack of debt funding plan, use of operating c... |
Moody’s said GHIAL’s financial metrics are expected to deteriorate in the next 18 months due to additional debt incurred during FY20 to part-fund the airport expansion work. The operator plans to fund the balance of the capital spending with operating cash flow. The airport has available cash and cash equivalent of Rs ... |
“GHIAL does not currently have committed debt funding in place for the expansion and plans to commence its fund raising process in the second half of 2019, potentially exposing the airport to higher funding costs if there are any unexpected challenges in its operations or expansion, or should capital market conditions ... |
Airports Economic Regulatory Authority, the airport regulator, had slashed expansion cost estimates given by GHIAL. Moody’s believes this will outweigh the benefits of a likely low-double digit percentage increase in passenger traffic at the airport and put negative pressure on the company’s financial profile. |
Key elements of the expansion include the extension of the existing passenger terminal, a new parallel taxiway, as well as the widening of the ramp connection from the main access roads. GHIAL is the sixth-largest airport in the country in terms of passengers handled after Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kolkata. |
This NFL offseason represents the 10-year anniversary of the inception of the "Rooney Rule." The rule, named after Pittsburgh Steelers' Chairman Dan Rooney, requires teams to interview minority candidates for all head coaching and senior football operation positions. Initially, the rule showed some signs of success, bu... |
The younger Mr. Rooney's comments come after a hiring period in which eight coaching vacancies, precisely one quarter of the league, were filled by white men, leaving the total number of minorities in head coaching positions at just four: The Steelers' Mike Tomlin, the Minnesota Vikings' Leslie Frazier, the Cincinnati ... |
It seems a given that coaches should be chosen solely on merit, but it is hard to ignore other connections that appear to open doors for today's coaches. Given the consistent trend of coaches hiring their sons, brothers and nephews to assistant coaching positions, there is reason to question whether a culture of nepoti... |
Take a look at the Baltimore Ravens, for example, where 23-year-old Jay Harbaugh is working for his uncle, John. Jay got his start as a coaching intern under his dad, Jim, head coach of the San Francisco 49ers. Is it old boy politics or simply a product of the connections and contacts that are present in every industry... |
Skeptics will say it's certainly the old boy network in full glory. While the sports industry is hardly alone in its embrace of the "who-you-know system," it seems NFL coaches have made it standard operating procedure. |
The Ravens are hardly the only team that seems to combine family reunions with job fairs. Rex and Rob Ryan (sons of Buddy) hold down the coaching jobs with the New York Jets and New Orleans Saints. Legendary Dolphins coach Don Shula hired his son, Dave, in 1982, and within a decade, he was head coach of the Bengals. Da... |
•This offseason the Washington Redskins hired former San Diego Chargers' General Manager A.J. Smith, father of 'Skins scout Kyle, to the front office. The Redskins are coached by Mike Shanahan, whose son Kyle is the team's offensive coordinator. All these men are under the employ of General Manager Bruce Allen, son of ... |
•Bill Belichick hired his son Steve in the fall of 2012 as a coaching assistant. Steve had played one year of Division I football as a long snapper in his senior season for Rutgers. |
•When Brian Billick was with the Ravens, he hired his brother-in-law Mike Smith, now the Falcons' head coach, straight out of Division II Tennessee Tech. |
•Kansas City Chiefs Coach Andy Reid has his son Britt in charge of "quality control." |
•When Jim Fassel was an offensive coordinator with the Baltimore Ravens, he hired his son John to his first NFL position as the team's assistant special teams coach. |
•When Mike Tice was with the Minnesota Vikings, he hired his brother John to be an offensive assistant. It was John Tice's first NFL job, and he has not had another one since Mike left the Vikings. |
•When Nate Carroll graduated from USC, his father Pete hired him to be an assistant with the Seattle Seahawks where Pete was head coach. |
Nepotism is certainly not unique to pro football, and many of these jobs are internships or low-level, low-paying positions borne with little impact to the bottom line. The real sin is that NFL franchises are sacrificing opportunities for more deserving candidates so that a head coach, GM, or scout can hand a dream job... |
American University's Washington College of Law Professor N. Jeremi Duru, author of 2011's "Advancing the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in the NFL," says this practice creates a networking disadvantage and robs a generation of minority candidates of valuable experience. |
"There are inadequately credentialed folks coming in under their dad," says Mr. Duru. "It's important to have people you trust, who you know will have your back. You may be getting that sort of loyalty, [but] you may be suffering with respect to other important parts of the job, which is competence overall." |
First, the NFL should replicate the combine system already in place for players and use it here to measure candidates (former players, etc.) who want to be NFL coaches. The NFL combine has been criticized as antiquated, but it is really no different than any other industry asking applicants to take a writing test or us... |
The idea is to create metrics so young applicants are measured and ranked by their perceived ability. The top 32 finishers could win an apprenticeship with one of the NFL teams. More than 7 million people tuned in to watch the combine. How many would watch an NFL reality show that would create an opportunity for a form... |
Second, create a moratorium on coaching changes until after the Super Bowl. When everyone adheres to the same schedule, you create a window in which a wider number of coaches can be considered. Owners were likely far more deliberate in how they hired for the various businesses they owned before they became NFL owners. ... |
"The NFL season at this point never stops," Mr. Duru says. "If you slow down and consider a broader pool and pull out of your comfort zone, to not have that knee-jerk reaction, I think coaches of color would fare better." |
The NFL and its owners are missing a leadership opportunity that, we believe, was at the heart of what Dan Rooney wanted to achieve. Sports, above all other industries, are rooted on statistics and ability. Head coaches have the right to choose their own staffs, but there's more that can be done to ensure the youngest ... |
If the idea is to find the best candidate possible, and to give the team the best chance to win, wouldn't it really serve everyone's long-term interests? |
Jason Maloni (jmaloni@levick.com) is senior vice president with LEVICK, a crisis communications firm that counsels institutions, franchises and athletes, in addition to corporate clients. Alexander Diegel (adiegel@levick.com) is LEVICK Fellow and a former contributor to The Bleacher Report and The Atlantic. |
Correction: An earlier version of this article gave the incorrect job title for Rob Ryan. The Sun regrets the error. |
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At its "Zynga Unleashed" event Tuesday, social game maker Zynga hinted at plans to create a closer relationship with its players through a new initiative code-named Project Z. It's part of an effort that CEO Mark Pincus said has been in the works for two years, which he's calling Zynga Direct and billing as the first t... |
Zynga didn't demonstrate the product and only offered the broad strokes of what the experience should be like. A commercial promised that Project Z would be "the world's largest play community"—a site where people can navigate among all of Zynga's games and find other people to play with. |
Project Z would be a way for the company to reduce its dependence on Facebook, since players will be able to sign-up and play directly with Zynga, rather than going through the social network. However, Zynga isn't completely cutting Facebook out of the equation. Chief operating officer John Schappert said Project Z wil... |
"Zynga Unleashed" was the company's first press conference since it moved to new offices in San Francisco. (It was also the first since Zynga filed for its IPO.) A crowd of employees watched the talks from the floors above, and they were the source of the loudest cheers throughout the event. The company also unveiled a... |
The most ambitious game discussed may have been CastleVille, which Zynga Dallas has supposedly been developing for more than a year. The Dallas team is based around Zynga's acquisition of a more traditional game developer, Bonfire Studios, and it's pitching CastleVille as a way to bring the appeal of multiplayer online... |
Senior BJP leader and Union minister Prakash Javadekar sought to know whether the Congress could ensure letters of support for the bill from its own allies. |
Javadekar maintained that the BJP had supported the bill when it was introduced during the Congress rule. |
As the Congress ups the ante against the Centre over the passage of Women's Reservation Bill, the BJP today accused the opposition party of adopting "double standard" on the matter by siding with those opposed to the bill. |
"This shows the double standard of Congress as it is in alliance with those who opposed the legislation," he said. |
The HRD minister's response came after Congress president Rahul Gandhi wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asking him to ensure the passage of the bill in the Monsoon Session of Parliament, starting July 18. |
In his letter, Gandhi offered his party's unconditional support to the bill and said the time has come for a change, and for women to take their rightful place in state legislatures and Parliament. |
"It is Congress which is sitting with those opposed to the bill. It is Congress which is in alliance with those who had opposed the Women's Reservation Bill. So will now Congress come out of the alliance or will it get the letters of support from those parties?" he told reporters here. |
The minister was referring to the RJD, which is in alliance with the Congress in Bihar. The Lalu Prasad Yadav-led RJD has been opposing reservation for women in Parliament and state legislatures. |
The Women's Reservation Bill seeks to reserve one-third of all seats for women in Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies. The bill was introduced by the Congress-led UPA-I government in May 2008. |
The Rajya Sabha had passed the bill on March 9, 2010, but the Lok Sabha never voted on it, so the proposed legislation lapsed after the dissolution of the 15th Lok Sabha in 2014. |
Pop boyband Backstreet Boys have announced a Scottish date in their upcoming DNA world tour. |
The band, famous for hits Backstreet’s Back and I Want It That Way, have announced a Glasgow show. |
They will appear at the Hydro on Friday June 14. |
On Twitter, Backstreet Boys tweeted: “Okay, here we go.... #DNAWorldTour 2019! |
“Our tenth album #BSBDNA out January 25th! |
“Thank you all for coming on this journey. |
Tickets will go on sale at 9am on Friday, November 16. |
According to candystore.com sales data, candy hearts dethroned Hershey Kisses as Wisconsin's favorite Valentine's Day candy. |
Store shelves have officially cleared out their Christmas merchandise — even from the clearance aisles, and that leaves plenty of room for the next holiday's goodies. That's right, Valentine's Day candy is for sale everywhere. |
So, what are Wisconsin families buying for their loved ones? Well, it used to be Hershey Kisses. But, last year, the chocolate confection was dethroned by that staple of classroom Valentine's Day parties everywhere — candy conversation hearts. |
This is all based on a compilation of sales data from candystore.com, an online bulk candy distributor. Interestingly, though, the survey report also points out that this candy heart popularity comes at a difficult time — in a year when SweetHeart conversation hearts aren't for sale. After Necco, the former owner of th... |
So, Wisconsin families, if you're anxious to keep candy hearts in the number one place in your heart, you'll have to buy other brands this year. |
13 suspected members of the 18th Street Gang are presented to the media after being arrested by the police in Soyapango, El Salvador in March. |
Teens hoping to escape the pressure of gang recruitment in El Salvador by fleeing to the US might breathe a sigh of relief when they cross the border. |
Their solace is often short-lived. If they haven't checked their Facebook privacy settings — and even sometimes if they have — the gang extortions and threats soon pop up again. |
"When [immigrant teens] come to the United States, there's always a way to be found, unfortunately, unless someone can be in a situation that's similar to a witness protection program," says Salvadoran American Susan Cruz, who helps young immigrants in conflict with the law. "They start cross-referencing by cell phone ... |
Social media and the prevalence of cell phones have allowed gang networks to communicate in "real time." And immigrants often chose to stay in touch with family members back in El Salvador, making their online footprint easy to follow. |
"I had a situation with a young man who stayed in communication with his younger sister, and through her friends at school [the gangs] found him here in the United States, and they attempted to extort him again," Cruz says. |
Immigrant advocates like Cruz instruct the newly arrived to use social media privacy settings to restrict those who can access their data. |
But Central American gangs prioritize finding victims who flee abroad. Cruz tells the story of one 12-year-old girl who lived in El Salvador with her grandmother after her family had fled to the US. She was pressured to become the girlfriend of a gang member. When she refused, she received threats on slips of paper sli... |
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