Thread by @soychicka

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Has anyone in @HouseDemocrats @HouseJudiciary ever thought of introducing legislation to address prosecution of federal crimes committed by an otherwise protected President, like:

1a) President can be indicted publicly, but prosecution delayed until OOO...

and an indictment automatically triggers impeachment hearings in the house,

OR

1b) - statute of limitations is explicitly tolled while in office, but if a target letter is sent, establish the date from which an indictment would otherwise have been sought.

II. To incentivize resignation instead of using office to try to evade justice, upon conviction, a penalty will be applied for each year the elected official effectively evades justice by holding ofc- scaling the final sentence as follows

== sentence * (guilty counts ^ years prosecution was delayed)

( ^ raised to the exponent )

This would allow those facing politically motivated or nuisance charges to defer prosecution and govern unimpeded, while effectively penalizing those against whom legitimate accusations have been raised.

Of course, this assumes that the charges in hand do not impact the officeholder's ability to fairly govern for all their constituents - any officeholder accused of violent/sexually motivated crimes or crimes against democracy

should not have any power over the lives of their victims; in this case, there should not be any path to deferred prosecution, and charges should be filed immediately.

This is just a rough draft, but I think it addresses the gist of what I'm getting at.

Codify the tolling of SOL, and add a penalty for using office to defer, delay, or evade charges.

'Cause this Catch-22 loop we're in is just nuts.

TBH, I prefer the first path, because it obviates the potential for an officeholder to use their office to instigate changes that could affect how their charges are prosecuted...

And

III. I also believe that ANY influence that officeholder has over the agencies/departments bringing charges should immediately be terminated, passing control to either VP or a congressionally-nominated and unanimously approved trustee.

But, yeah. Those are just this morning's thoughts on the matter.

But this shit is cray, and it shouldn't happen again. Ever.

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