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OLC: A Sitting President's Amenability to Indictment and Criminal Prosecution
But what does the Justice department know right?
No, he does not.
OLC: A Sitting President's Amenability to Indictment and Criminal Prosecution
In 1973, the Department of Justice concluded that the indictment and criminal prosecution of a sitting President would unduly interfere with the ability of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned duties, and would thus violate the constitutional separation of powers. No court has addressed this question directly, but the judicial precedents that bear on the continuing validity of our constitutional analysis are consistent with both the analytic approach taken and the conclusions reached. Our view remains that a sitting President is constitutionally immune from indictment and criminal prosecution.
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