Elizabeth Warren Wants Congress to Ensure Presidents Can Be Indicted

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Presidents are not indicted for good reason...

For one thing, it would take something extraordinary to get Justice to issue an indictment when it's run by a presidential appointee.

For another, a criminal trial has much tougher rules of evidence than an impeachment, so he has a better chance of getting off. (Even though we have never successfully impeached and convicted a President) Besides, indictments tend to anticipate a plea deal-- how would that work?

An indictment would throw the trial into the courts, where the public interest would be largely irrelevant, and the trial could even be secret. And how do you pick a jury?

An impeachment has 535 congrescritters fighting it out in public, and listening to their voters, who are listening to who knows what.

An indictment and trial wouldn't necessarily get rid of the President, just leave him in office even more pissed off. If he gets a prison sentence, could he work from the slam?

I assume we're talking only about Federal crimes here. And only felonies. Could you imagine the fun we could have charging a president for "allowing" someone to smoke a joint in the Rose Garden?

And the Feds still have a death penalty (which some would no doubt find agreeable)