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it's an issue that had never really been seriously considered and decided one way or the other before the justice department was confronted with it urgently during the nixon administration. but thanks to this, again, sort of odd series of things happening all at once in the early '70s, the vice president, spiro agnew, maybe going to prison, the president, richard nixon, making being removed from office against his will by impeachment. thanks to those things coming together all at once in a big felonious mess because the american people, in our infinite wisdom, thought it would be a g...

it's an issue that had never really been seriously considered and decided one way or the other. before the justice department was confronted with it urgently during the nixon administration. thanks to this sort of odd a series of things happening all at once in the early 70s, the vice president spiro ag new going to prison, the president, richard nixon, being removed by office against his will by impeachment. thanks to those things coming together all at once in a big felonious mess because the american people in our infinite wisdom that it be a good idea to elect guys that cry me to...

together, all at once in a big felonious mess because the american people in our infinite wisdom thought it would be a good idea to elect guys that crime-y to the white house twice, thanks to that mess around nixon and agnew, the justice department in the early '70s had bumbled their way into putting down on paper that it was the policy of the justice department to not ever bring criminal charges against a sitting president of the unite and that's like an important landmark moment fort nixon years, it's never a good sign that your presidency is so crime-y and forces a look at the rul...

And the importance of that is that it means technically they never tried to charge nixon as a sitting president, nor did they ever try to charge agnew as a sitting vice president. they avoided testing that prospect with both nixon and agnew, each of them basically by the swing of their teeth. so the rules about not charging a sitting president, those rules were created, they took shape, they were formalized and put down in print during that crisis ofin criminality in the white '70s.in the early but that rule wasn't really tested at that time. that rule wasn't really tested until almost 50 year...

Test it with nixon's criminal vice president spiro agnew who was running an extortion and bribery ring out of his office in the white house and got caught by federal prosecutors for doing so. with spiro agnew, federal prosecutors actually did bring federal charges against him, but they negotiated this very sensitive deal whereby agnew resigned the vice presidency immediately i mean right before seconds before he walked into the courtroom to formally face those federal charges. the importance of that is that it means, technically, they never tried to charge nixon as a sitting president nor did ...