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https://www.yahoo.com/news/indicting-president-legal-scholars-say-obstacles-high-181738602.html
Found this article interesting. It appears to be pretty damn hard to oust a president.
At the outset, even assuming for the sake of argument that Trump had obstructed justice — i.e. committed a federal crime — it seems most likely that a sitting U.S. president cannot even be indicted.
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Neither the Constitution nor the Supreme Court has provided a conclusive answer, but the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel decided on its own in 1973 (amid the Watergate scandal) that a sitting president cannot be indicted because it would interfere with his or ability to perform the actions required of the office. The department reaffirmed this belief in a memorandum for the attorney general in 2000.
Now it’s true the president is a different constitutional creature, but the process is largely the same,” he said. “What is clear is that we all agree the best practice is to impeach and remove a president before you prosecute.”
Impeachment is a high hurdle, especially when the president’s own party controls Congress. On the other hand, the impeachment process does not include the due process protections afforded in the criminal justice system. The president’s lawyers have to be aware that evidence collected during impeachment can later be used during the prosecution.
Though Comey’s testimony hurt Trump politically, Turley does not think it pushed the needle any closer toward a criminal charge and quite possibly undermined Comey’s potential role as witness by acknowledging that he leaked the infamous “Comey memo” to the press via a friend who teaches at Columbia Law School).
Found this article interesting. It appears to be pretty damn hard to oust a president.