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Very strange....
It's reported that the fellow who tried to grab a gun from a policeman so he could shoot Donald Trump has plead guilty to being a prohibited person (illegal alien) and will likely get two years' imprisonment.
Either the report is off or he got an incredibly easy break. Calculating from the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the lowest result would be base level 14 (possession by prohibited person), plus four levels for intent to use it in a felony, plus two for it being stolen equals level 20, sentencing range 33-41 months. On the other hand, they could charge attempted murder of a federally-protected candidate, and that starts off at level 33. homicide (135-168 months, or 11-15 years).
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...But the question is " Why did the U.S. Atty give him such a deal ? Musta been Mr. Comedy who made the decision. He disregards evidence and bases his judgement on sympathy, not the law.
I suspect that Loretta Lynch probably wanted to give him a Medal of Freedom and two weeks at the Camp David guest house (when Obama was elsewhere), but that with the polls running so tight didn't think she could make that fly.
Question is "Where does the federal government get the constitutional police power to legislate any of these punishments?" The Constitution specifically grants punishment power for counterfeiting, securing copyrights and patents, piracies and felonies ON THE HIGH SEAS, offenses against the law of nations, and treason but no grants of police power are made for anything else. The police power was retained by the States except for those few delegated through the Constitution. If there are implied or inherent police powers, that is unwritten, why did the Framers see the need to write down the few that they did? If some other clause grants blanket police powers to the fed, then the explicit grants were unnecessary and the Framers must not have understood the Constitution and its clauses.
It appears that your analysis starts at "(illegal) possession of a firearm".
My reading of it is the he TRIED to grab a police officer's gun, thus actual possession never occurred.
I'm surprised that he wasn't awarded a Freedom medal for the intended assault on the Donald.
....The news article I read stated that the suspect admitted grabbing the pistol handle. If so it was truly possession
Probably why he struck a plea deal.