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This is factually incorrect, the president can be prosecuted for anything, he doesn't even have to commit a crime, but there's a special process for that called
by friend_and_foe 2y ago
This is factually incorrect, the president can be prosecuted for anything, he doesn't even have to commit a crime, but there's a special process for that called impeachment. This isn't new stuff and it has been understood to work this way for a couple hundred or so years, until very recently.
- gazook89 2y agoImpeachment is a political process to remove someone from office, it doesn’t send you to prison.
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- jcranmer 2y agoThe impeachment clause specifically lays out that impeachment doesn't inhibit criminal prosecution for the same acts. Hell, Trump's impeachment defense was essentially that he should be criminally prosecuted instead of impeachment.
- tines 2y agoWhat about after he has left office?
- science4sail 2y agoWhat if he/she assassinates the impeachers as an "official act"? That might be an example of Gödel's Loophole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_Loophole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_Loophole
- Karupan 2y agoNot an American but according to everything I’ve read, impeachment is not the equivalent of prosecution [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_St...
- tdb7893 2y agoEven the majority opinion doesn't agree with you. Literally the only people I've heard make this argument are Trump's lawyers in this case and in fact during the impeachment proceedings they said the exact opposite. Impeachment is a separate process and the president doesn't need to be impeached to be charged with a crime.