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Former U.S. presidents can be arrested and charged for alleged criminal conduct, but immunity doctrines and recent Supreme Court precedent have narrowed prosecutors’ roadmaps and may delay or limit prosecutions.
president, based on the sources reviewed, was criminally charged or convicted prior to assuming the presidency; the historical record instead records near-misses, post‑inaugural scandals, and a handfu...
No authoritative record in the supplied reporting establishes that any president or former president actually served time in jail; historians and legal scholars note several near-misses (, indictments...
A sitting president enjoys strong, but not judicially settled, protections against criminal prosecution while in office: the ’s has long advised that a president cannot be indicted or prosecuted durin...
and related privileges shape which lawsuits can proceed, which acts are insulated, and how courts balance separation-of-powers concerns against accountability; the law gives absolute civil immunity fo...