• dudinax
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    1 year ago

    U S Grant was arrested while in office. The arrest did not lead to a constitutional crisis.

    • BigNote@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      True, but the consensus among legal scholars is that it’s not a binding precedent. I don’t remember the reasoning behind it.