The law is not very clear about what would happen if citizens actually elected an indicted or incarcerated president.
Moreover, presidents need access to classified information and briefings. But imprisonment would also obviously compromise a president’s ability to access such information, which must often bethat has been protected against all manner of spying, including blocking radio waves – not something that’s likely available in a prison.
This is not out of the question. At least one incarcerated presidential candidate, Eugene Debs, garnered almost a million votesOne potential response is the 25th Amendment, which enables the president’s Cabinet to declare the president “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
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