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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,
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,
“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."
"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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