Justice Fortas on Presidential Indictment  Gerard Magliocca
You may also like...  13 Responses    1. Brett Bellmore says:
I don’t see why this should be the least bit contraversial; The
authors of the Constitution were perfectly capable of writing
immunity into the Constitution’s language explicitly, when they
intended for it. See Article 1, Section 6:       Note the utter
and complete absence of any comparable language in Article 2.
That should, rightfully, settle the matter. Presidents do not
have any more immunity from legal proceedings than any other
citizen.    2. Joe says:      As with sovereign immunity and
many other things, legal understandings from the Founding are a
bit more complex than Brett “it is so simple, why is everyone
confused” makes it out to be.      For instance, who is going to
prosecute? The President can pardon people. Can the President
pardon him/herself? I personally agree that Clinton was liable
for civil suit while in office but Brett’s “same as Joe Smoe”
standard would pr