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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan the President Be Indicted? A Long-Hidden Legal Memo Says Yes
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/us/politics/can-president-be-indicted-kenneth-starr-memo.htmlWASHINGTON A newfound memo from Kenneth W. Starrs independent counsel investigation into President Bill Clinton sheds fresh light on a constitutional puzzle that is taking on mounting significance amid the Trump-Russia inquiry: Can a sitting president be indicted?
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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 presidents official duties, the Starr office memo concludes. In this country, no one, even President Clinton, is above the law.
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In 1974, the Watergate special counsel, Leon Jaworski, had also received a memo from his staff saying he could indict the president, in that instance Richard M. Nixon, while he was in office, and later made that case in a court brief. Those documents, however, explore the topic significantly less extensively than the Starr office memo.
In the end, both Mr. Jaworski and Mr. Starr let congressional impeachment proceedings play out and did not try to indict the presidents while they remained in office. Mr. Starr, who had decided he could indict Mr. Clinton, said in a recent interview that he had concluded the more prudent and appropriate course was simply referring the matter to Congress for potential impeachment.
<snip>
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 presidents official duties, the Starr office memo concludes. In this country, no one, even President Clinton, is above the law.
<snip>
In 1974, the Watergate special counsel, Leon Jaworski, had also received a memo from his staff saying he could indict the president, in that instance Richard M. Nixon, while he was in office, and later made that case in a court brief. Those documents, however, explore the topic significantly less extensively than the Starr office memo.
In the end, both Mr. Jaworski and Mr. Starr let congressional impeachment proceedings play out and did not try to indict the presidents while they remained in office. Mr. Starr, who had decided he could indict Mr. Clinton, said in a recent interview that he had concluded the more prudent and appropriate course was simply referring the matter to Congress for potential impeachment.
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Can the President Be Indicted? A Long-Hidden Legal Memo Says Yes (Original Post)
.99center
Oct 2017
OP
Of course he can be indicted. While everyone is speculating on whose name
underthematrix
Oct 2017
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underthematrix
(5,811 posts)1. Of course he can be indicted. While everyone is speculating on whose name
is on the indictment, it seems the most likely persons are Trump, Sessions, Flynn, Manafort, Don Jr., Kushner, Nunes, Rohrbacher, Pompeo, in that order.
Mueller cannot get to anyone below Trump because he has already started to subvert the law enforcement and judicial systems.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)2. K&R
rock
(13,218 posts)3. Of course he can be indicted!
Every politician I know of says, "No one is above the Law!" So, unless ALL politicians lie ... Well, you see where this is going.
davekriss
(4,618 posts)4. But when tested by SCOTUS...
...there will be 5-4 ruling that a president cannot be indicted. But theyll also say the ruling sets no precedent and applies only to the current president. And thereby the rest of the world laughs and cries over what this once great nation has become.
(I am overflowing with pessimism this morning.)
mountain grammy
(26,623 posts)5. It'll never happen.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)6. I doubt very much that an indictment against Trump
will be issued.