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View Poll Results: Can a sitting president be indicted?
Yes 84 63.64%
No 48 36.36%
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Old 08-21-2018, 08:49 PM
 
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There’s a debate as to whether a sitting president can be indicted for crimes. I’d say a sitting president can be indicted, otherwise the framers would have specifically stated that he can’t be, which they didn’t.

There is no evidence in either the text nor from the Constitutional Convention of any intent to create immunity for a president from indictment,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-as-president/
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Old 08-21-2018, 08:50 PM
 
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indicted for what?
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Old 08-21-2018, 08:51 PM
 
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indicted for what?
For crimes
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Old 08-21-2018, 08:51 PM
 
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I think we’re about to find out.
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Old 08-21-2018, 09:13 PM
 
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For crimes
What crimes?

Employing a guy that cheated on his taxes ten years ago?

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/pol...e24520438.html
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Old 08-21-2018, 09:27 PM
 
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What crimes?

Employing a guy that cheated on his taxes ten years ago?

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/pol...e24520438.html
The question is about a sitting president in general. The denialism runs deep in you though. Enjoy it while you can.
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Old 08-21-2018, 09:30 PM
 
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There’s a debate as to whether a sitting president can be indicted for crimes. I’d say a sitting president can be indicted, otherwise the framers would have specifically stated that he can’t be, which they didn’t.

There is no evidence in either the text nor from the Constitutional Convention of any intent to create immunity for a president from indictment,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-as-president/
Nope. Kavanaugh the next SCJ has that opinion as well and with a nice 5-4 decision it will be confirmed.
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Old 08-21-2018, 09:34 PM
 
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/u...tarr-memo.html

“It is proper, constitutional, and legal for a federal grand jury to indict a sitting president for serious criminal acts that are not part of, and are contrary to, the president’s official duties,” the Ken Starr office memo concludes. “In this country, no one, even President Clinton, is above the law.”
"Nothing in the Constitution or federal statutes says that sitting presidents are immune from prosecution, and no court has ruled that they have any such shield."
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Old 08-21-2018, 09:35 PM
 
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What crimes?

Employing a guy that cheated on his taxes ten years ago?

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/pol...e24520438.html
How about directing other people to commit crimes?
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Old 08-21-2018, 09:38 PM
 
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"can"? You'd better pray to the God in Who you don't believe that you never find out. Because I can assure you that despite what daydreams you may entertain in your drug-addled tissue that laughingly passes for your "brain", you will NOT like the way it turns out.
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