Timeline for Assuming the U.S. President is convicted of a crime in their unofficial person, what happens next?
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| May 15, 2023 at 23:40 | comment | added | IllusiveBrian | @Joshua The initial question was asking about Washington, DC, which is a federal territory. With that said I'm now skeptical of my own answer, I don't think the federal judiciary or a state can order a sitting President to do anything that would interfere with their Constitutional duties, and being able to travel freely is pivotal to most of those duties. Until they're convicted by the Senate a President has a Constitutional role in government which would certainly have legal supremacy over state law and probably is also inviolable under separation of powers doctrine by the judiciary. | |
| May 15, 2023 at 20:24 | comment | added | Joshua | We can remove 4) by assuming a state prosecution, but yeah it's going to be crazy to get here, mainly because the state won't be able to arrest him. Note that the founders put into the constitution a sentence that blocks arresting congressmen but found it unnecessary to do the same for the president. | |
| Feb 3, 2018 at 22:42 | vote | accept | Stackstuck | ||
| Feb 2, 2018 at 20:31 | comment | added | Stackstuck | Thank you for clarifying just how crazy things would have to be for all of this to happen. | |
| Feb 2, 2018 at 14:08 | history | answered | IllusiveBrian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |