{"id":1874449,"date":"2023-03-10T22:12:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T03:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/broken-promises-biden-hasnt-revisited-presidential-immunity-despite-campaign-pledge\/"},"modified":"2023-03-10T22:13:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T03:13:15","slug":"broken-promises-biden-hasnt-revisited-presidential-immunity-despite-campaign-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/broken-promises-biden-hasnt-revisited-presidential-immunity-despite-campaign-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken promises: Biden hasn&#8217;t revisited presidential immunity despite campaign pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbroken-promises-biden-hasnt-revisited-presidential-immunity-despite-campaign-pledge%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1874449&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_78399405\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Six takeaways from Biden's big-spending budget proposal\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"President Joe Biden released his budget for the next fiscal year on Thursday, outlining the policy priorities that could underpin his reelection bid should he choose to run for a second term. 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However, the Constitution does not explicitly state that this is possible. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The opinions that the Department of Justice has issued in the past, immunizing the president from accountability for criminal conduct for as long as he is in office, have been called into serious question by leading constitutional scholars,&#8221; Biden <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/10\/us\/politics\/biden-presidential-immunity.html\">Telled<\/a> The <i>New York Times<\/i> In 2019. &#8220;These rulings also communicate to the public the un-American, false notion that remaining in the Oval Office is a \u2018stay-out-of-jail&#8217; pass.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<figure class=\"Figure mb-1 mb-sm-3 mb-md-1 article-lead-photo data_invisible\" data-align=\"center\" data-image-size=\"fixed\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div class=\"Figure-container\"> <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\"><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\"><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\"><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\"><\/source><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"1060\" height=\"707\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\"><\/source><source width=\"1060\" height=\"707\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\"><\/source>                                 <\/picture><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\" itemprop=\"caption\"> President Joe Biden speaks with members of the media prior to boarding Marine One at the South Lawn in Washington on Friday, March 10, 20,23 for a brief trip to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland and Wilmington, Del.                <\/figcaption><div class=\"Figure-credit\" itemprop=\"author\">                 Andrew Harnik\/AP                <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Biden stated that if elected, he would direct the department to review all opinions issued in the Nixon and Clinton eras. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it is determined that they are in error and a misreading of our constitutional law, revise or withdraw them,&#8221; He stated. <\/p>\n<p>His statement was made shortly after special counsel. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/robert-mueller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Mueller<\/a> His investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 election was completed. Mueller had rendered &#8220;no judgment&#8221; Whether the then-President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump <\/a>During Mueller&#8217;s inquiry, had committed obstruction of justice crime. <\/p>\n<p>Biden hasn&#8217;t orde<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Read more from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/biden-revisit-presidential-immunity-campaign-promise\">Broken promises: Biden, despite his campaign pledge, hasn&#8217;t reaffirmed presidential immunity<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PResident Joe Biden In 2019, he told reporters that if he was elected president, he would need the Justice Department To revisit the subject of Presidency immunityHe said he would, but he hasn&#8217;t lived up to it two years later. 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