18th December 2017, 9:46 PM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:If he commits crimes, do the republicans even need to do anything about it?That's the problem, there's nothing that says that they MUST do something about it. Democratic norms say that we as a nation should, but will they? So far that party is much more interested in trying to not learn what happened and cover it up than they are in revealing the truth, whatever that is, to the public. Mueller would need some REALLY good evidence for this to go anywhere, and even then it probably wouldn't happen until/unless the Democrats take the House back.
Quote:Can you be president from inside a jail cell? How would that work? Does the secret service have to stand down if the police arrest Trump? Would the secret service fight the police?No president has ever been criminally charged while in office, because of the disruption having a sitting president on trial would cause the nation. There is no law saying that he CANNOT be charged, I don't believe, but it'd be tough to make the case that he should be, I'd guess. The definite Constitutional recourse for a bad officeholder is impeachment. But if a party refuses to remove serious corruption within its ranks and the other party is in the minority, we're left with a very bad situation...