amount to an incapacitation." in plain english, please do not indict a sitting president. that was the opinion of the department of justice in 1973. 27 years later in the year 2000, the same office of legal counsel doubled down on that opinion. quote, the indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting president would unconstitutionally undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions. the question of whether a serving president can be indicted came up again this week with president trump playing an unindicted role in a pair of felonies to which his former personal lawyer, michael cohen, pled guilty. the president's lawyers would have you believe that the olc's opinion is a hard and fast rule and that, therefore, the special counsel robert mueller cannot indict president trump while he
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