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The Bob Cesca Show: Sleepy Grandpa

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KGxvi2/02/2018 9:54:18 am PST

re: #409 Big Beautiful Door

My concern is that the next time a Democrat is elected President (in 2020, I hope), the GOP will seek an indictment and criminal trial on any flimsy charge they can concoct. And how would it work, exactly, for the President of the U.S. to be on trial for a crime and possibly convicted and sentenced to prison time and still do his job? See the problem? The Republicans would use criminal law as an end-around their inability to impeach the President to try to force him or her from office.

Except Republicans wouldn’t be able to file criminal charges, it would have to be the US Attorney’s Office. And they’re not going to just go file charges without evidence (they are lawyers after all, many of whom probably want to be judges at some point), which means the FBI or some other law enforcement agency is going to have to conduct an investigation and present evidence that a prosecutor would find sufficient to convene a grand jury.

It would basically have to work exactly like it is now. And until we see how this plays out, we don’t really know what the end result would be.