Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
Tangentially, a lot of stock has been placed in the expectation that even if the Office of the POTUS is shielded from criminal prosecution for the duration of the officeholder's term, such an individual can be prosecuted once they have departed the office. In theory this is true, but now I realize that it just cannot happen like that. In this country we have trial by jury, and the verdict must be delivered unanimously. You tell me - is there any hope of a randomly-selected jury pool that does not contain at least one diehard redcap, one who would refuse to convict no matter the evidence presented? We've already seen the like in the Manafort trial, in which IIRC a single hung (pro-Trump) juror refused to convict on around half the charges. It would be improper to winnow out and discard every potential juror who has ever voted for or supported Trump, so it's effectively guaranteed that at least one juror on any trial will be a partisan.
If the case is brought by the SDNY it would be possible to convict. Everybody in NYC already knows he's a crook and conman...