Surely, Founders did not intend such immunity

Is it possible? Did the Founding Fathers, the authors of the Constitution, intend that a sitting president should be immune to any crime committed while in office?

In today’s heated, polarized political climate with Congress changing its political majority in both chambers every two years, the prospect of impeachment of the incumbent party has become almost commonplace, replete with both consequential and trivial reasons to remove executives and his appointees from office.

The removal must have a vote of 67 senators to find him guilty. Since 1900, only the Democratic Party, in four different Senate sessions, had the majority sufficient to arrive at that verdict.

With the country equally split along party lines and Congress reflective of this division, would it not be the perfect crime to literally commit murder, knowing that a perpetually warring Senate will never convict?

James D. Cook

Schaumburg