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		</div><p>Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has said that if she wins the White House, her justice department “would have no choice” but to pursue an obstruction of justice case against President Donald Trump after he leaves office.</p>
<p>The California senator and some other Democrats in the 2020 race are pushing their party to initiate the impeachment process in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.</p>
<p>Mr Mueller has said he was unable to exonerate Mr Trump of obstruction but could not pursue potential charges because of a Justice Department policy that bars the indictment of a sitting president, a policy Ms Harris has said she would ask her justice department to re-examine.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">No one is above the law, not even the President of the United States. <a href="https://t.co/7dRqkrJIJM">pic.twitter.com/7dRqkrJIJM</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1137745963399954432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><em>“Everyone should be held accountable,”</em> Ms Harris told NPR in an interview that aired on Wednesday.</p>
<p><em>“And the president is not above the law.”</em></p>
<p>Ms Harris, a former California attorney general who also was San Francisco’s district attorney, later said she would not dictate the outcome of any prospective efforts to charge Mr Trump.</p>
<p><em>“The facts and the evidence will take the process where it leads,”</em> she said.</p>
<p>Suggesting that Mr Trump face prosecution after he leaves office is a fine line for any Democrat after the party has excoriating him for politicising the Justice Department.</p>
<p>Impeachment remains popular with Democrats’ base voters, but the party’s congressional leaders are more cautious because the Republican-controlled Senate does not likely have the votes to remove Mr Trump from office.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">“Mueller has spoken. He found No Collusion between the Trump Campaign and the Russians. The bottom line is what the Democrat House is doing is trying to destroy the Trump Presidency (which has been a tremendous success), and I can assure you that we’re done with the Mueller&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1138412971846189056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 11, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Mr Harris is not alone among 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls in criticising the Justice Department policy that Mr Mueller cited in declining to look at obstruction charges in his nearly two-year investigation of Mr Trump.</p>
<p>Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, the first candidate to fully endorse the start of impeachment proceedings in the wake of Mr Mueller’s report, pledged last month to end that policy if she is elected president.</p>
<p>Ms Harris and Ms Warren are among nearly one-half of their party’s 20-plus primary field in calling for the start of an impeachment inquiry, though few contenders are making that stance a centrepiece of their campaigns.</p>
<p>But Ms Harris, who is running in part on the strength of her legal and law enforcement experience, appears to have taken a step further than her opponents in affirming that a Justice Department in her administration “should” look at charging Mr Trump with obstruction once he no longer is president.</p>
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