Trump Could Still Serve As President From Prison

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Some presidents have described the White House as a prison, but the Constitution doesn’t specify that that’s the only prison you could occupy in order to serve as president.

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— Professor Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law, offering his thoughts on whether Donald Trump — if he were to run for president again, become imprisoned in the future, and still somehow win the 2024 election — would be able to govern from his cell. Trump could even deliver the State of the Union address “via Zoom while wearing orange prison garb,” Tribe quipped in an interview with Insider. Trump is currently under investigation in various federal and state probes, and his home was recently raided by the FBI.

Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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