What Happens if a Presidential Candidate Is Convicted?

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Not since Eugene V. Debs campaigned from a prison cell more than a century ago has the United States experienced what might now happen: a prominent candidate with a felony conviction running for president. And never before has that candidate been someone with a real chance of winning.

Can Trump run if he is convicted?
This is the simplest question of the bunch. The answer is yes.

The Constitution sets very few eligibility requirements for presidents. They must be at least 35 years old, be “natural born” citizens and have lived in the United States for at least 14 years.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-investigation-conviction.html
 
It is worth considering that the people who wrote the Constitution never thought that a scumbag like Trump could become the President.
 
What if he’s elected with a case still in progress?

The Justice Department does not indict sitting presidents, a policy outlined in a 1973 memo, during the Nixon era. It has never had reason to develop a policy on what to do with an incoming president who has already been indicted.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-investigation-conviction.html

For example, Mueller never said a sitting President cannot be indicted, only that the DOJ would not prosecute.
 
"In its Clinton v. Jones ruling in 1997, the court allowed a lawsuit against President Bill Clinton to proceed. But that case was civil, not criminal, and it was filed by a private citizen, not by the government itself.
 
A president is elected for his ability to lead the nation not for his past behavior

They are two separate issues

I’ve hired ex cons in the past because they were smart and could get the job done

I didn’t care if they got busted for stealing a car or something
 
Tinkerpeach said:
A president is elected for his ability to lead the nation not for his past behavior

They are two separate issues

I’ve hired ex cons in the past because they were smart and could get the job done

I didn’t care if they got busted for stealing a car or something
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How about if they were convicted of killing their boss?
 
BidenPresident said:
How about if they were convicted of killing their boss?
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Seems appropriate to bring up a Biblical quote at this time..... " So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." John 8:7.

Being a Christian is about redemption and forgiveness. Believing that through Christ others as well as yourself can be redeemed. Why do so many lefties not believe in forgiveness or redemption? And if you do,......why do so many not act like it?
 
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