What does it take?

[lees1975]

The fact that a mechanism does not exist within the Constitution for going in, arresting, and jailing a renegade President who is committing daily acts of sedition, is either a constitutional weakness, or a demonstration of the weak will of the people.

[HAB911]

1. This Raper in Chief

has brought every flaw in the system into focus. If we don't fix them all at the first opportunity, that's on us

[JBTaurus83]

2. I suppose the founders never

Expected such entrenched political parties with over half of the congress siding with a traitor.

[W_HAMILTON]

3. There is such a mechanism, but it doesn't work when his Republicans in Congress support what he is doing.

[intrepidity]

4. Yeah, it is a bit tough to swallow the naivete of The Founders

Surely they had first-hand experience with scoundrels?

[choie]

5. He can shoot somebody

on 5th avenue and get away with it. Literally.

[Silent Type]

6. Win bigly in midterms. Anything else is unlikely to succeed.

[Sogo]

7. The fault is with the House.

They should be starting impeachment proceedings. But, Mike Johnson....

[-misanthroptimist]

8. I don't view that as a failure

Presidents would be routinely arrested otherwise.

Among the Constitution's biggest failures is the Electoral College. Its purpose was supposed to be to keep people like Trump from ever attaining the office.

[lees1975]

9. No one has ever proposed arresting a former President for anything prior to now, except Nixon.

No other President, except Nixon, was a lawbreaker like this bum. Until the Republicans began losing their minds, patriotism and common sense, there had only been one impeachment, in the aftermath of the hothouse that was made our of Congress after the Civil War. And the impeachment of Clinton crossed the threshold of a political, rather than legal, act which caused it.

Trump has made a career out of disorganized sedition. He's been tearing apart and attempting to tear down the Constitution from his first day in office. Following the January 6th attack, he should have been arrested and held without bail from that point on.

[-misanthroptimist]

10. I totally agree with you on lazy, low IQ Trump

However, what's to stop the power out of power from having Presidents arrested on a whim? Tell me the Repubs wouldn't have had Clinton arrested, or even Obama or Biden? There would have to be some standard for arrest. Even indictment is too low a bar as evidenced by the current DOJ.

So, I think this one that the Constitution has right. Impeachment and Removal first, then arrest.