Article: The indictment option. (susceptibility of a sitting president to civil and criminal indictment)

Mr. Troy is a lawyer in Washington, D.C., and an associate scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He served in the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel during the Reagan and Bush Administrations, and he clerked for Judge Robert H. Bork on the D.C. Circuit Court in 1983 - 84.

Ever since the Lewinsky scandal broke, reporters and legal scholars have uniformly declared that a sitting President may not constitutionally be indicted. National Public Radio's Nina Totenberg, among others, reported that even Ken Starr's office holds this view, apparently based on a Department of Justice position developed by then - Solicitor General Robert Bork during the ...

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