Prosecuted? by whom? Impeachment is the intended vehicle to stop a President that is out of control.
Is it possible to prosecute a POTUS after he has been impeached and removed from office?
Criminal prosecution of those who implement Obama's policies might be easier. If lawsuits were filed against the likes of Susan Rice and Valerie Jarrett (among others) it might make others back away from being part of Obama's "unanimous decisions".
Exactly. There is absolutely no authority whatsoever to prosecute a president. He has to be impeached before prosecuted. It may even say that directly in the Constitution.
Not by the Attorney General.
This is one of the stupidest and most unconstitutional ideas I've seen recently.
The Constitution provides explicitly for control of a rogue President by impeachment and removal from office. Requires a majority of the House and 2/3 of the Senate.
Shapiro would apparently prefer to replace this constitutional provision for a political process with a criminal trial before a judge and 12 jurors. I strongly suspect the Founders would recoil in horror.
I firmly believe our Union would be much stronger today if every fourth or fifth president on average had been impeached and removed from office. None of this idiocy about "three co-equal branches of government."
The Founders intended the representative of the people and states, in Congress, to be in ultimate control of the government. This intent has arguably been denatured by direct election of the Senate, but the principle still survives, albeit somewhat damaged.
The very last thing we need to do is empower unelected judges to decide when a president should be removed from office.
“Prosecuted? by whom? Impeachment is the intended vehicle to stop a President that is out of control.”
Normally the prosecutor would be the U.S. Attorney-General, but Holder is a co-defendent in this prosecution and cannot be expected to prosecute the case. So, the U.S. House of Representatives would appoint a Special Prosecutor to handle the case against defendent Obama and the co-defendents. This move would be intended to sidestep the Democrat majority and its control of the U.S. Senate who are obstructing any hope of an effective impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate.