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Originally Posted by awval999
The Senate Sergeant-at-Arms can only "arrest" or "detain" someone to bring them to the Senate.
And the president is not subject to any other power of arrest, unless and until impeached and removed from office, which has never happened. Even when one president resigned to avoid impeachment, he was immediately pardoned by his successor, because presidents are in important respects above the law. Which means that the United States is not really under the rule of law at all. It's an oligarchy, which is what it was created to be by a conspiracy of rich merchants and slavers seeking only their own advantage.
The president is an elected king, plus roi que le roi, with vastly greater powers than any constitutional monarch such as HM King George III or any of his late Majesty's successors. The president appoints the entire executive by patronage and royal favour. He can rule by arbitrary fiat through 'executive orders' and he can even fire federal prosecutors -- like that was never going to be a problem, because ambitious politicians are never corrupt, are they?