"So that potus can continue the job." This house inquest is every bit as distracting as indictment

[lindysalsagal]

I'm hearing the reason we can't indict a sitting potus is that it would prevent potus from the day-to-day tasks. But, honestly, is this new house inquiry and the mueller and ad ny any less bothersom??

I think he's as bothered as he can be: Might as well go for the whole indictment: He's already lawyered up and in total defense mode.

An indictment would remove him and replace him with anyone who could do the job.

[procon]

1. And yet the president can be sued by anyone

in a criminal trial while in office because he his still not above the law. Back in the day, in the midst of the Watergate scandal engulfing Nixon, the Office of Legal Counsel in the DOJ adopted in an internal memo that posited the quaint notion that a sitting president is above the law and cannot be indicted while in office. This policy has no logic, if a president can be sued and named as plaintiff in civil or criminal courts., then he can certainly be indicted.



Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681 (1997), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case establishing that a sitting President of the United States has no immunity from civil law litigation, in federal court, against him or her, for acts done before taking office and unrelated to the office.[1] In particular, there is no temporary immunity, so it is not required to delay all federal cases until the President leaves office.[1]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Jones

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Yes, how would we ever get all his skipped golfing back...