More obstruction of justice from Donald Trump.

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Pence was on Face The Nation defending the president's tweets about Jeff Sessions moving to prosecute two Republican candidates for office. He claimed that there are DOJ guidelines against unduly influencing elections, unfortunately for him, there are two problems with this. First, those guidelines, following upon the Hatch Act, are intended to prevent people from using their power within the DOJ to participate substantially in the political process, something that Sessions was not doing. Second, the standard has been that one should be careful during the last 60 days prior to an election not to unduly influence the outcome of an election. Since both cases were initiated prior to 60 days before the election, it doesn't seem that those guidelines would even apply.