What seems like a more dangerous precedent to set?
—Prosecuting a former president
—Letting a former president avoid accountability for allegedly stealing classified documents and then conspiring to obstruct the government's efforts to retrieve them
@rbreich the implicit assumption in the former case seems to be that justice systems could be suborned to "attack" political rivals. If that's the concern, fix *that* rather than carving out exclusions that the justice system cannot touch!
If former US presidents where prosecutable every US president since at least Nixon would have been in Jail.
The policy of prosecuting former presidents is an assurance for whoever the current is president that he he wont go to jail for whatever he does like start a war on false pretenses (e.g Iraq, etc)
It's a "feature" of the current system, not "a flaw". And it sucks.
@scubbo ok, maybe not Jimmy Carter. @rbreich