Sheldon Whitehouse: the OLC opinion is wrong. The President is indict-able.

[pnwmom]

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-indictment-charges-sheldon-whitehouse-congress-russia-1293334?utm_campaign=NewsweekFacebookSF&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&fbclid=IwAR08zwX1AnfOa6ePqopGM4dQEoiW1lAbwOWNzC16QCSMVDrOESXT3trZYVY

“I do not at all subscribe to the [Office of Legal Counsel] theory that a president can’t be indicted,” Whitehouse told Cuomo. “I think that if there are crimes that he has committed he should be indicted.

“I think that the Office of Legal Counsel [OLC] and the Department of Justice bends over backward to take the most executive branch-friendly position that it possibly can,” he continued, “but I think a court taking a look at this would say, ‘No, no no, no, no.’”

The OLC says that indicting a sitting president would be unconstitutional, as it would “undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions.”

But Whitehouse cited “the Nixon precedents and others,” which he said did not support the concept of a president “not being answerable to the public in this way.”

[PoliticAverse]

1. If the President can be indicted doesn't that mean a President can be arrested and jailed too?

Could a state attorney general get a President indicted and an arrest warrant issued?

[pnwmom]

2. A lot of the experts, such as Laurence Tribe, think he could be indicted

but the prosecution would have to wait till he left office.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

3. Good enough for me. Lets arrest and charge the kids too. See how cute they are

after they get busted out. Never in my GD life have I seen such a damn circus. Nat Enquirer govt brought to you by dummies and the russians. The most educated nation in the world (?) and we're governed by the biggest fool.

[chowder66]

4. Trump & ilk are undermining the capacity of the executive branch so that argument seems weak to me.