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I thought you couldn’t be prosecuted for actions committed in the performance of your constitutional duties.

I mean if you killed someone or was caught speeding thats one thing and certainly prosecutable.

But I have a hard time imagining how they could twist bush’s actions into criminal offenses...they better not. It sets an awful precedent.

It would make us start to resemble the Roman empire....

I thought you couldn’t be prosecuted for actions committed in the performance of your constitutional duties.

I mean if you killed someone or was caught speeding thats one thing and certainly prosecutable.

But I have a hard time imagining how they could twist bush’s actions into criminal offenses.

There is "sovereign immunity" which protects officers of the government in performance of official duties, but Presidents can be impeached (tried) and if convicted of "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors" by the Senate, they can be removed from office. After removal from office, they can still face criminal charges, but the only punishment for an impeachment conviction is removal from office.

There's no way they could get 2/3 of the Senate to say Bush did anything treasonous, and I seriously doubt anyone could conjure up some other "high crime or misdemeanor" which would gain the support of 2/3 of the Senate. Once Bush leaves office, he's a citizen. He can't be tried for "high crimes and misdemeanors" any longer, but can be tried for any violations of the law he may have committed while in office. If there were violations of the law which were serious enough to prosecute after he leaves office, they would darn sure be serious enough to qualify as "high crimes and misdemeanors" today, and would probably get 2/3 of the Senate. In other words, this is a bunch of hot air. They're going to do nothing to Bush after he leaves, because no one is alleging any crime now. They're just screaming "he lied to get us into a war!" It's pretty funny to me. I opposed the idea of invading Iraq at the time, and remember how few friends I had on the right AND the left on that issue. Now they want to say they were kind of against it all along, and were only for it a little bit because Bush fooled them, that clever rascal. What a load of BS.