{"id":37294,"date":"2019-06-02T00:48:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T00:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37294"},"modified":"2019-06-02T00:48:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T00:48:25","slug":"unable-to-find-constitutional-reference-to-potus-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37294","title":{"rendered":"Unable to find constitutional reference to POTUS indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It’s been three days since Robert S. Mueller III issued his extraordinary statement about why he reached certain conclusions about Donald Trump’s alleged collusion and obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n

I want to focus briefly on a particular point that the former special counsel made in his nine-minute recitation before the nation.<\/p>\n

It’s the part where he said that he and his legal team looking into the Russian attack on our electoral process in 2016 could not indict the president because of a Department of Justice policy that prohibits indicting a sitting president.<\/p>\n

Then he said such an indictment would violate the U.S. Constitution.<\/em><\/p>\n

I believe my eyebrows raised just a bit the moment I heard Mueller make that assertion.<\/p>\n

I have a copy of the nation’s governing document on my desk. I have been poring over it. I have looked through Article I, which lays out congressional authority and through Article II, which spells out presidential authority. I have looked through all the other original articles in the Constitution, all the way to Article VII.<\/p>\n

I cannot find a single reference that protects the president of the United States from indictment. I cannot locate anything at all that speaks even tangentially about the issue.<\/p>\n

I am not going to quibble and quarrel with Robert Mueller, a fine lawyer and a former FBI director. He’s a great man with impeccable integrity. I honor the work he did while compiling his report to the nation and I certainly honor his decades of public service.<\/p>\n

Moreover, I understand how DOJ policy could prohibit an indictment. However, a policy<\/em> is much less binding than anything codified in the U.S. Constitution. Policies can be rescinded. Agencies that enact policies can change them. The Constitution is a different sort of creature. To amend anything, you need a bill to come out of Congress and you then need a super-majority of states to ratify the law.<\/p>\n

So I am asking: Can anyone find a constitutional reference<\/em> that declares that presidents cannot be indicted?<\/p>\n\n

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