Donald Trump faces a second indictment this year, this time on federal charges regarding his handling of classified documents, but there stands no barrier to running for president as a convicted felon or even behind a prison cell.
Trump faces a second indictment this year, this time on federal charges regarding his handling of classified documents, but there stands no barrier to running for president as a convicted felon or even behind a prison cell, as Eugene V. Debs did in 1920.All eyes are on the former president and how he will move forward after what House Speaker Kevin McCarthy called a"dark day" for the United States.
While Debs is far from the only person who sought the Oval Office while in prison, he is considered the most successful. In 1920, he became the Socialist Party nominee while serving a 10-year federal sentence for urging people to avoid the World War I draft. "I mean, he could order it ended almost certainly," Case Western University law school professor Jonathan Adler told the Washington Examiner."Things move quickly in federal court under the Speedy Trial Act, but in a case of this magnitude, we can expect it to take about a year before it goes to trial," Steve Toland, a criminal defense attorney who focuses on federal white-collar defense and investigations, told the Washington Examiner.
Others have said actions like a self-pardon could be unconstitutional because it sidesteps the notion that nobody should be the judge in his or her own case. And the DOJ could deviate from its policy in “extraordinary circumstances” under the approval of the U.S. attorney general. But for state charges, like those filed in New York and expected to be filed in Georgia, they would remain in place because they are not under federal authority, Adler said.
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