“Legally speaking, there is nothing to bar a former president from being indicted for a state crime, running for office – even convicted,” said Jessica Levinson, founding director of LMU Loyola Law School’s Public Service Institute. “It really just becomes an issue of, practically, how could you run the country behind bars, if ever came to something like that?”
Source: USA Today
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