re: Andrew Weissmann's intentional ignorance on checks and balances.

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Why can federal judge be tried prior to impeachment, but the President cannot?

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It's a speculative proposition one way or another.

The answer is, at any determinative crossroads, the Constitution must be assumed as intending to support our republican governance, not to destroy or disable it. Opening the Presidency to total disability via partisan whims of a single rogue state legal system (as we've witnessed in NY) would empower the latter to occupy a POTUS and VPOTUS in a state courtroom during most of their tenor in office. As we've seen that occupation could come complete with gag orders and mandatory courtroom presence, regardless of national demand.

You may believe that to be Constitutional intent. I don't.