I hate this meme in the media, "A President cannot be indicted"
I'm seeing it more and more, as if it is long settled law.
Sez who? As far as I know, there is just a Justice Department memo, written decades ago, which makes this claim. That's it. There is no Federal statute or regulation which prohibits such an indictment.. More importantly, there is nothing in the Constitution about it.
Impeachment is a purely political process even though the verbiage "trial" is used. There is nothing in the impeachment language addressing whether a President can also be indicted. I believe the framers would be shocked to think we would consider it so. After all, the concept that no one is above the law was paramount in their thinking.
New times and new crimes call for new thinking. Let's not fall into the trap of letting the media's incorrect assumptions decide for us.
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“I believe it vital that the President be able to focus on his never-ending tasks with as few distractions as possible. The country wants the President to be ‘one of us’ who bears the same responsibilities of citizenship that all share. But I believe that the President should be excused from some of the burdens of ordinary citizenship while serving in office,” argued Kavanaugh in the law-review article. He then asserted that “the indictment and trial of a sitting President, moreover, would cripple the federal government, rendering it unable to function with credibility in either the international or domestic arenas. Such an outcome would ill serve the public interest, especially in times of financial or national security crisis.”
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http://www.thenation.com/article/brett-kavanaugh-argued-sitting-president-law/
Did he ever wonder why there is a Vice President?
