Picture Harry Reid having a senator arrested on trumped up drunken driving charges, resulting in him being detained long enough to miss a crucial Senate vote.
There is a reason why we have these immunities.
Yes, drunk driving is bad. So is tyranny.
does MRS CLINTON even drive?
You just described how the Rats got rid of Tom Delay.
The Pubbies have a rule that someone merely indicted for a Felony cannot serve on the House leadership, so a local politically motivated prosecutor in Austin indicted Delay on a trumped-up charge that was laughed out of court (after the damage was done).
The Rats have no such rule, and screamed bloody murder when the Republicans suggested they were going to get rid of theirs. The imbalance exists to this day.