McKinney cannot be arrested.

[Twist_U_Up]

Section 6. Clause 1. The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.


In 1998, 84 Representatives and Senators were released after being stopped by police for driving while intoxicated, clear breaches of peace and felonies. All the members claimed congressional immunity.

[hippiechick]

1. I don't think it's the 'stop' that they're arresting her for ...

.... it's the 'slapping' of the officer.

[slaveplanet]

10. Uhm, thats alleged "slapping"

[hippiechick]

13. Um, that's why I had it in quotes?

n/t

[Inland]

2. cite to the arrest factoid?

Because I don't even think that many congressmen drive themselves, much less get stopped. The clause seems pretty limited in time, and besides, DUI can be a felony and is excepted.

[Pavulon]

3. They can be arrested

after session. Many have in the past and will in the future be arrested for criminal acts. This only covers them during session.

[rpgamerd00d]

4. Correct

[BR_Parkway]

5. I think Tom DeLay would have to argue with that statement - it only

applies to them coming and going into session, so that they can't be prevented from doing the business they were elected to do.

[BuyingThyme]

6. Why do you people keep defending the wrong thing?

Now, just because you're on her side, you're making a case that she's above the law.

Stop it. You are making fools of yourselves. You are acting like Bush Republicans. Neither would McKinney pull this crap nor appreciate what you're doing.

[TomInTib]

7. Well put.We tend to scream when it's Them, and we howl when it's Us.

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[DS1]

8. Breach of the Peace - Bang anything can be a Breach of the Peace in a cops

eyes

[Judi Lynn]

11. Wish the unconscious right-wingers among us could get as self-righteous

and pompous about the devastation and desperate suffering _Bush has wrought all over the world in our names.

[Karenina]

12. Indeed.

:hug:

[Gabi Hayes]

14. unconscious? I'm really beginning to wonder....

I'm stunned by the quickness to judge

anyone remember if people here laid into Cindy Sheehan so instantaneously, when it was first STATED that she unfurled a banner in Congress?

I don't think so

wait til some frickin FACTS are revealed, pomposoids