New Day, New Scandal

[Gaspar]

This is what happens when the President decides to comment on an ongoing criminal case.

http://www.stripes.com/judge-obama-sex-assault-comments-unlawful-command-influence-1.225974

Two defendants in military sexual assault cases cannot be punitively discharged, if found guilty, because of “unlawful command influence” derived from comments made by President Barack Obama, a judge ruled in a Hawaii military court this week.

Navy Judge Cmdr. Marcus Fulton ruled during pretrial hearings in two sexual assault cases — U.S. vs. Johnson and U.S. vs. Fuentes — that comments made by Obama as commander in chief would unduly influence any potential sentencing, according to a court documents obtained by Stars and Stripes.

On Wednesday and Thursday, Fulton approved the pretrial defense motions, which used as evidence comments that Obama made about sexual assault at a May 7 news conference.

[JCnOwasso]

This is what happens when the President decides to comment on an ongoing criminal case.

http://www.stripes.com/judge-obama-sex-assault-comments-unlawful-command-influence-1.225974

Two defendants in military sexual assault cases cannot be punitively discharged, if found guilty, because of “unlawful command influence” derived from comments made by President Barack Obama, a judge ruled in a Hawaii military court this week.

Navy Judge Cmdr. Marcus Fulton ruled during pretrial hearings in two sexual assault cases — U.S. vs. Johnson and U.S. vs. Fuentes — that comments made by Obama as commander in chief would unduly influence any potential sentencing, according to a court documents obtained by Stars and Stripes.

On Wednesday and Thursday, Fulton approved the pretrial defense motions, which used as evidence comments that Obama made about sexual assault at a May 7 news conference.

Yeah, Presidents should never comment, especially when it involves the people you command.

[Hoss]

Yeah, Presidents should never comment, especially when it involves the people you command.

Remember who this is you're responding to.  It might be nice if my job afforded me the ability to troll the interwebs every day for 18 hours to attempt to dig up dirt on the CiC.