Posted on Apr 16, 2017
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Is the President immune from lawsuits simply for being President? Should that even be in question?
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Alot of sites claim a President can delay their trial until they're out of office but I can't find anything from a reliable source saying that. What I did find was a NY times article from 1994 that demonstrates that, not only can the POTUS be sued while in office, there have been at least two historical cases that the POTUS has been sued.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/26/us/precedent-for-suing-a-president.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/26/us/precedent-for-suing-a-president.html
Precedent For Suing A President
When Paula C. Jones filed her sex-harassment suit against President Clinton last month, legal scholars, historians and senior Justice Department lawyers all agreed that it was unprecedented. Never before, they said, had an incumbent President been sued for actions alleged to have occurred before he took office. But news accounts from 32 years ago show that this is not so. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy was sued in California for his...
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MCPO Roger Collins
You are right. But there's this little thing called standing. Private citizens, yes, anything regarding federal charges fit the category you note.
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