"The President can not be indicted while in office"

[Stinky The Clown]

Serious question: what if he murders someone? What if the president, with his own hand, picks up a gun and shoots someone dead?

[OliverQ]

1. Apparently he gets away with it if Congress does nothing.

Considering how much the Founders worried about tyranny, they really screwed up if a President is immune from all laws short of impeachment.

[BannonsLiver]

38. Throughout the Trump shit show

I’ve come to realize the genius of the founders we all learned about in school is REALLY overrated.

[Stargleamer]

2. Bone Spurs can keep a fella

from being inducted even while not in office!

[Corgigal]

3. Your golfball's Mr. President.

........nothing.......here.....

[rzemanfl]

4. Bone spurs kept him from induction. Please check spelling. n/t

[jberryhill]

8. It was right the first time

The President does not produce electric current in a fluctuating magnetic field.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. Traction, however, is likely

[marylandblue]

12. Neither does he use any form of logic.

[rzemanfl]

18. Everyone has a dicitonary out tonight. n/t

[hlthe2b]

5. 'Inducted', like into the mafia? LOL. I know you meant 'Indicted'

There is disagreement as to whether or not they can be indicted and just not tried until out of office, either through impeachment or resignation or.... Laurence Tribe is among those who thinks that they CAN be indicted. There is a DOJ memorandum suggesting no, but that is more a formulated policy that can be changed than any reviewed legally binding opinion.

[BigmanPigman]

6. He would be excused by his cult/fans, religious nuts and the GOP unless

he got a knife (not a gun since a gun is OK with them) and stabbed a woman he got pregnant in the stomach in order to abort the baby. Oh, and it would have to be on live camera. Only then would it even be considered a crime by his base.

[jberryhill]

7. In the middle of Fifth Avenue

That question has been addressed already.

You know he’s gonna do it.

[tblue37]

9. On Fifth Avenue. nt

[Demsrule86]

10. Actually that is not settled law.

[TomSlick]

17. Yeah, I'm not convinced the President can't be indicted.

I understand the arguments but it's too easy to conjure a hypothetical in which a President must be indicted.

The other problem is a statute of limitations. If a President can't be indicted while in office and the statute of limitations runs during the remainder of the President's term, that would mean s/he can't be indicted at all. I'll concede that issue would only apply to relatively minor offenses but it's still an issue.

[Demsrule86]

40. I think Trump is that hypothetical.

[Gothmog]

26. Prof Tribe agrees

Link to tweet

[Demsrule86]

39. No man or woman should ever be above the law.

[marylandblue]

13. The only relevant precedents are uniform but are not about indictment.

They are about other things like answering subpoenas and so on, but the courts have always ruled that the president is not above the law. All arguments that he can't be indicted and prosecuted while in office place him above the law, so I think the answer should be pretty clear.

[struggle4progress]

14. "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters"

I had assumed this meant he only planned to shoot people who didn't vote for him, but apparently it's actually a Republican theory about the Pesident's constitutional powers

[Civic Justice]

31. Only one who knows "they are backed by the foolish" would make such a claim

[RockRaven]

15. Until there is an attempt to indict a President

and the issue gets litigated all the way up to SCOTUS, the idea that a President cannot be indicted is more commonly-accepted hypothesis than robustly-evidenced theory.

[democratisphere]

16. Mueller is in charge. Everything is possible.

[SCantiGOP]

20. The courts are in charge

Mueller is just putting together the proof.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

37. The five conservative justices on the SCOTUS are in charge.

I think they proved that in Bush v. Gore.

[blueinredohio]

19. When dems get control in congress and Senate this needs to be fixed

[mainstreetonce]

21. Impeach. Remove Indict

Wouldn't that make sense?

[TomSlick]

22. Yeah, but

The impeach part is easy. The remove part is a hard lift.

If say 34 Republican Senators vote against removal for strictly political reasons, what then?

[sinkingfeeling]

23. Bulls**t.

[roamer65]

24. No one is above the law in this country.

A sitting president can most definitely be indicted and convicted of crimes. What we will then have is a true criminal in the WH until Congress does the needful.

[Gothmog]

25. From AG Holder

Link to tweet

[LisaL]

27. He wouldn't lose any support if he shot someone-he said so himself.

[Gothmog]

28. From Rep. Nadler

Link to tweet

[Civic Justice]

29. Is there something about the word "Nobody" that is confusing?

NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW !!!!

Perspective and Context Matters !!! it matters as to who, what, when, where, how and why; as to manner and perspective of context that the indictment is structured. Which by such principle, he can be "Indicted".

Nobody is above the law, privilege extend to the point of obstructive conduct and criminal as well as malfeasance and certainly when it come to Misprision of Felony and Treasonous conduct by/through participation by act and fact, of submission, acts of omission and lack of contrition for acts and actions, and conduct that damages the United States, Its Government, and its Divisions within Governance.

Trump and his cabinet is guilt of all. Republican Congress is guilty of Aiding and Abetting the same.

It invokes a Fracture in our System, and Mending that Fracture will correct and clarify, that "NOBODY" is above the Law.

PRISON FOR TRUMP

[kentuck]

30. There is an old saying that you cannot get blood out of a turnip.

But you can put turnip in jail.

[MontanaMama]

32. Was listening to one of Preet Bharara's

podcasts and he believes that Mueller may not move to indict the president. Made my blood run cold.

[bearsfootball516]

33. That's a possibility that we should be planning for.

Sitting back and expecting Mueller to take care of everything isn’t the state of mind we should have. We should be gearing up for the midterms this summer, and then getting ready for a metaphorical war in 2020 to beat Trump at the ballot box.

That way, if Mueller does take down Trump, great. And if he doesn’t, we’re ready to kick him out in 2020.

[MontanaMama]

34. 100%.

This is sure to be a dog fight the whole way through. Success hinges on taking Congress back and keeping it for the foreseeable future. We need to stabilize our country, culture, environment, education system and economy etc to stem the damage that’s been done.

[Civic Justice]

41. 100% !!!!!!!!!!!!

[bitterross]

35. Says Who?

The Constitution provides no such immunity. Maybe the DOJ does this as a practice but that can change.

[duforsure]

36. He violates his oath to office and the Constitution

And the rule of law is gone if anyone, including a President doesn't have to answer to the rules and laws everyone has to abide by. If a President can't be indicted for crimes he IS above the law , and answers to nobody, not what was ever intended, and just because he has this powerful position, it doesn't include abuse of power, or being held to a different standard because of it. A President is indictable , while in office, or there is no limit to what he could corrupt , and do, and get away with.

[scarytomcat]

42. if true he would have to be removed or step down first

I don't believe it is true.