YET MUELLER WON’T INDICT A SITTING PRESIDENT
“THE PRESIDENT IS TO HAVE THE LAWS executed,” wrote the Chief Executive. “He may order an offence then to be prosecuted,” but if he “sees a prosecution put into a train which is not lawful, he may order it to be discontinued.”
That’s not a tweet from Donald Trump. It’s a letter from Thomas Jefferson, in 1801, explaining the President’s broad authority to supervise and control federal criminal prosecutions.
As special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation heats up, Jefferson
