{"id":2451477,"date":"2019-11-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=316508"},"modified":"2019-11-24T17:09:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T00:09:24","slug":"president-not-above-legal-reproach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/president-not-above-legal-reproach\/","title":{"rendered":"President not above legal reproach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">At this moment in history, it is important recall that the constitutional basis for impeachment of the president and its consequences is found in The Federalist, No. LXIX. It states in part, \u201cThe President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried and upon conviction \u2026 removed from office; and would thereafter be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The argument can be advanced that this section protects a sitting president from trial, civil or criminal. But, at the same time, it absolutely affords no absolute protection or immunity against pre-trial discovery or a criminal investigation while still in office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The section links the impeachment process directly to the president as \u201cthis delicate and important circumstance of personal responsibility.\u201d Most importantly, it makes clear by direct comparison that the president, unlike the \u201csacred and inviolable\u201d king of Great Britain, is not above the law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Neil B. Siegel<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/president-not-above-legal-reproach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this moment in history, it is important recall that the constitutional basis for impeachment of the president and its consequences is found in The Federalist, No. LXIX. It states in part, \u201cThe President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried and upon conviction \u2026 removed from office; and would thereafter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2451477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 03:53:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451510,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451477\/revisions\/2451510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}