As a first step, lawyer Richard Weinberg was tasked with researching the basic question: Can you indict a sitting president? The short answer, after wading through a lot of obscure legal questions, constitutional precedents, judicial opinions, and American history, appeared to be: “Yes, but you shouldn’t.” There was no specific prohibition in the Constitution or elsewhere, but there were real questions about the institutional “propriety” of the Justice Department bringing charges against the head of the executive branch.I
