Please allow me put this silliness to rest: The U.S. Marshals can't arrest the President. They are subordinate to him. The U.S. Marshal Service has a statutory charge to protect federal courts and enforce their judicial orders, like arresting fugitives. But the Marshals are part of the Department of Justice. Their duties are executive duties, and they are under the supervision of the Attorney General and ultimately the President, who can fire U.S. Marshals, who are political appointees.
This is basic constitutional separation of powers. The President holds all the executive power. You may recall that Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 78 that the courts would be "the least dangerous branch," because they must depend on the President even to enforce their orders -- with the direct implication that the President can refuse. This is exactly what that means. The Marshals are in effect detailed to protect federal judges and carry out routine executive functions following from court orders. But they are under the President's authority at all times. See, e.g., Chabal v. Reagan, 841 F.2d 1216 (1982).
This means the President can order them to stand down, and he can fire appointees if necessary. The notion of U.S. Marshals showing up at the White House to arrest the President is absurd to begin with, but in any event he could just countermand any order they had received and tell them to return to their normal duties.
What about the Fifth Amendment?
The secret service needs to pay MSNBC a visit, really.
This is much more idiotic than “Karl Rove frogmarched from the West Wing” from an earlier decade.
Way to go Brennan, Comey, Clapper, Rosenstein,Rhodes, and their bands of flying monkeys of disinformation and propaganda..
Now, that would boost Trump in the polls even more than Stormy Daniels Everyone knows that would be a leftist stunt.
“Please allow me put this silliness to rest: The U.S. Marshals can’t arrest the President. They are subordinate to him. “
That was in the America of old when we still had a Constitution and rule of law. The DOJ is now an independent agency accountable to no one. We may just see the FBI or U.S. marshals take President Trump into custody. You know they want to...
Better chance of Joe Scarborough getting arrested.
Fapping material for lefties.
Wet dreams.
I often wonder if these people know how stupid they sound....
Wet Dream Workshop 101. No prerequisite required, except proof of voter registration for the ‘correct candidates’.
Bovine Scatology.
Thanks for the explanation but we all know leftards are completely stupid assholes.
Pure unadulterated crap. These lying, wretched bastards never give up.
I think that’s the definition of a coup. Unfortunately for the Marshalls, they’ll likely have to face off against US military hardware.
None of these sumbitches would pass a piss test and that goes for over half of congress too.
The only person with power to arrest the President is the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate.
Whatever he’s on, cut the dose.
Joy is more likely to be arrested for something she is smoking or snorting.
MSNBC “dreamers” are having wet dreams again. Trump Derangement Syndrome.