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To: Verginius Rufus

A sitting president cannot be indicted for anything.

Only impeachment in the House and a conviction in the Senate can remove a sitting president.


42 posted on 02/15/2018 3:58:32 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (No DACA Caca....Send the Nightmares home. "Americans are Dreamers, too." President Trump)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Nixon was named an “unindicted co-conspirator” during the Watergate investigation. I remember there being debate over whether a sitting President could be indicted, but I don’t know if it was ever definitively resolved. Mueller might try issuing an indictment to force Trump to have to fight it in court, unless there is a clear-cut ruling from the 1970s on the issue.


44 posted on 02/15/2018 4:03:00 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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