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marylandblue's JournalProof that Trump can be indicted, courtesy of the State of Missouri
Governor Eric Greitens of Missouri was recently indicted and arrested by local police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/us/eric-greitens-indicted.html
The Missouri Constitution says that the governor can be impeached and would be tried by a Senate-selected panel of judges. Like the US. Constitution, it does not say anywhere that the governor can be indicted, nonetheless, this doesn't seemed to have been a problem.
Of course, we are talking about federal law, which is different, but if there is no applicable federal precedent, federal courts often look to state courts for guidance if there are state-level precedents. The state precedents don't bind the federal courts, but if governors can be arrested based on similarly-worded state constitutions, then it's a good argument that the president can be indicted.
I am sure Mueller noticed this.
Missouri Constitution Article VII:
Section 1. Impeachmentofficers liablegrounds.All elective executive officials
of the state, and judges of the supreme court, courts of appeals and circuit courts
shall be liable to impeachment for crimes, misconduct, habitual drunkenness, willful
neglect of duty, corruption in office, incompetency, or any offense involving moral
turpitude or oppression in office.
Section 2. Power of impeachmenttrial of impeachments.The house of representatives
shall have the sole power of impeachment. All impeachments shall be tried
before the supreme court, except that the governor or a member of the supreme court
shall be tried by a special commission of seven eminent jurists to be elected by the
senate. The supreme court or special commission shall take an oath to try impartially
the person impeached, and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of
five-sevenths of the court or special commission.
Some sleeper information in today's indictment
It wasn't just 13 people - According to the indictment, the Internet Research Agency employed HUNDREDS of people and had a budget of MILLIONS of dollars.
Mueller found the money - Concord Management had direct ties to the Russian government, funded this and other operations against the US, and identified 14 bank accounts that the money passed through. Meaning he has detailed financial information from banks doing business in Russia.
Mueller has detailed information on internal organization operations - he must have informants in Russia who are giving him good information.
Mueller has personal emails from these people - We have probably hacked a lot of relevant email accounts.
Don't worry that the indictment didn't say Trump campaign conspired with THESE Russians
Of course they didn't. They were just low level hackers. They did what they were told to do. It doesn't say who told them to do it or why. The decisions were made at a much higher level. And the campaign would have been communicating with those higher level people.
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