Is Trump Entitled To Secret Service Protection In Jail?
It’s Time Now To Start Thinking About It
The Secret Service offers lifetime protection to former Presidents according to the Former President’s Act of 1958. This provision does not cover a President removed from office. Richard Nixon technically resigned and wasn’t impeached, so he qualified for Secret Service protection despite declining it. Here’s the definition of “former President” according to the text of the Act.
(f) As used in this section, the term “former President” means a person —
(1) who shall have held the office of President of the United States of America;
(2) whose service in such office shall have terminated other than by removal pursuant to section 4 of article II of the Constitution of the United States of America; and
(3) who does not then currently hold such office.
Current lawmakers reference Secret Service protection to Article Two of the Constitution. The Constitution doesn’t mention the Secret Service, which didn’t exist when the Constitution was ratified. The Treasury Department that formerly operated the Secret Service was established in 1865 to battle counterfeiting. The Secret Service began protecting Presidents in 1901 after the assassination of President William McKinley. In 2003 the Secret…
