Bryan Fischer: Trump has no obligation to honor a subpoena

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Trump has no obligation to honor a subpoena
By Bryan Fischer
May 3, 2018

Bob Mueller has threatened President Trump and his legal team with a subpoena if he will not voluntarily submit to an interview.

But a subpoena is constitutionally unenforceable against a sitting president. This is clear from the section of the Constitution which discusses impeachment.

The power of impeachment to hold federal officials accountable in between elections is vested in Congress. The Founders' Constitution makes it clear that no official of the central government is unaccountable, ever. A renegade president, for example, may be brought to heel through impeachment. He can be impeached by the House, the political equivalent of an indictment, and then may be convicted by the Senate, which acts as the jury, and, if found guilty, removed from office.

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