[Windflier]

It doesn’t matter what the law says. The Constitution preempted it, and according to it the president, vice president, and certain judges can only be removed from office via the impeachment process. He can’t be prosecuted or jailed before removal from office. The president is subject to various legal proceedings, but not what you’re talking about without impeachment.

So that's it? Obama skates again? I think I want a second opinion.

[Tublecane]

“So that’s it? Obama skates again?”

Yes and no. Like I said, the house could impeach him on your grounds. They won’t, and even if they did, the Dem senate won’t convict. But we’re not any worse off, because your way we wouldn’t get any authority to press the issue, anyway. I don’t know what if anything a bunch of governors could accomplish. There really isn’t any precident for that.

They’d have to get federal judges to play along, and though that’s a little more likely than impeachment, it’d end up at the dead end of SCOTUS eventually.