06-04-2014, 02:43 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Sharing my mother's basement with several liberals who can't hold a job.
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Originally Posted by MTI
1) Google is a pretty good resource for such questions.
2) POTUS is not subject to the jurisdiction of any criminal court in the US, federal or state, under the separation of powers provisons, however there has been no definitive opinion by the USSCt.
3) POTUS is not a member of military service and is therefore exempt from the UCMJ.
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The UCMJ is a federal law, enacted by Congress. The law requires the Commander-in-Chief (The President of the United States) to implement the provisions of the UCMJ. The President does this via an executive order known as the "Manual for Court Martial" (MCM).
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