05-24-2019, 04:58 PM
(05-24-2019, 04:51 PM)hollodero Wrote: I have to say, I might be wrong, but from the outside it seems your constitution left open a huge flaw - a president's theoretical legal intouchability - and you were just lucky through history that no one went there yet.
We did have one go there. Nixon was guilty of obstructing justice for his part in covering up the Watergate burglary. He went down when the courts made him turn over confidential tapes from secret recording devices in the oval office. The citizens got to hear it all.
Nixon resigned before he could be impeached, and the next President, Ford, pardoned Nixon before he was ever convicted of anything.
Basically the system worked. Nixon avoided prosecution, but he was ran out of office.
