Two top Democrats want the Department of Justice to change the law so that President Donald Trump can be indicted.

During an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-MD, said the DOJ should “definitely” reconsider laws against indicting sitting presidents.

“I think we should always reconsider laws and regulations, and this is one we definitely should reconsider,” Cummings told host Jake Tapper.

When asked if Democrats will work toward impeaching Trump once they take control of the House of Representatives in January, Cummings said he’ll likely wait for Special Counsel Robert Mueller to release his findings.

“Our major thing right now is to let Mr. Mueller, who I have a tremendous amount of respect for, do his job. Let him complete his job. Then we take a look at what he says and go from there. I think it’s actually premature right now to do that. But the evidence is certainly powerful enough. I think the president knows that.”

Current DOJ guidelines explicitly state that a sitting president cannot be indicted.

But Cummings has several Democratic allies who want the law changed and argue that the president could face “jail time” over allegations of campaign finance violations.

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-CA, told CNN last week that DOJ laws should be changed so that Trump can be indicted.

“I think the Justice Department needs to reexamine that OLC opinion, Office of Legal Counsel opinion, that you cannot indict a sitting president under circumstances in which the failure to do so may mean that person escapes justice,” Schiff said.

“There’s a very real prospect that on the day Donald Trump leaves office, the Justice Department may indict him. That he may be the first president in quite some time to face the real prospect of jail time,” he added.

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Democrats and media figures are salivating over allegations that Trump may have been involved in hush-money payments in 2016 to adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.

The two women claim they had an affair with Trump over a decade ago and that they were paid as part of a nondisclosure agreement.

Federal prosecutors are reportedly investigating the payments as possible campaign finance violations, which Democrats apparently believe is an impeachable offense.

Former President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign was fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for campaign finance violations.

Obama was hit with arguably the largest fees ever levied against a presidential campaign for violations, and not a single person went to jail nor were there calls for his impeachment.

When Obama is found guilty of campaign violations, it hardly makes the news.

But when Trump is accused of the same thing, Democrats want him impeached from office and demand the DOJ change so the law so the president can be indicted.