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Originally Posted by mapuc
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Edit Special benefits as President of USA, but how about now and until the election day and if she is elected-the day from November 8/9 to the day she swear the oath/move into the white house ?
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Any criminal trial would stop at 1200 20 Jan 17 and be suspended until after the presidents final term. If the president is removed from office via the impeachment process, then the criminal trial could resume.
The limits of impeachment is the removal from office and the inability to hold future offices. There is no provision for fines or imprisonment. Just the removal from office. This allows the judicial system to try the "not-president any more" citizen.
The rational for this tradition is that the president is elected by the citizens of the entire country and therefore no single state or federal district court should have jurisdiction over the president That is why in this context, the congress, as a whole, serves as a court representing all the citizens.
Even the SCotUS does not have the power to impeach a president.