Professor Jenny Breen Comments on Whether a Sitting President Can be Prosecuted

Professor Jenny Breen spoke with Newsweek for the article “Can Trump Derail His Criminal Case by Becoming President Again?”

“Now if he’s elected and becomes a sitting president again, then those issues are brought back to the fore, the federalism issues, the constitutional issues … But I don’t think it’s possible to predict what would happen because again this has never happened before. So there’s no way to kind of look at precedent and see what typically happens in these cases because it’s the first time it has occurred.”