"The president can't obstruct justice..." - John Dowd

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Is there a lawyer in the land outside of Alan Dershowitz and Donald Trump's team of consiglieres who buys that argument ? The executive's right to fire departmental heads is virtually absolute but not absolute. The president can fire a departmental head for any legal reason. He can't fire him or her with a corrupt intent. An act that can be lawful in one instance can be unlawful in another.

It would have been a breach of protocol but not unlawful if he fired Comey and replaced him with someone he liked as the FBI Chief is supposed to be independent. If he fired Comey because he was investigating his pal, Michael Flynn, and that investigation presumably would extend to him that would be unlawful and an obstruction of justice.




P.S. I remember reading the Dowd Report on Pete Rose and coming away thinking Rose was a scoundrel. Now that I see what kind of man John Dowd is I am re-evaluating my opinion of Pete Rose.

[kentuck]

1. In other words, the President is above the law.

Bullshit!

[spanone]

2. according to trump's lawyer, TRUMP IS KING

what a pantload

[unblock]

3. that was nixon's theory. it didn't play out very well for him.

but there were even then people who insisted nixon was right and their number has only multiplied.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. "The trouble with the French is they have no phrase for 'the state is me'"

- Donald "Louis XIV" Trump

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. "Apres nous le deluge."

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[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Is that a quote from a couple of Russian hookers?

[honest.abe]

5. Last gasp hail mary attempt to fend off the inevitable.

Clearly they see something big coming.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

7. How Nixonian of him

[StevieM]

8. I seem to remember that Dowd, 25 years later, suddenly announced that he had evidence at the time

that Pete Rose was guilty of having sex with 12 year olds.

I think there is still an ongoing lawsuit over the matter.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Maybe he mixed up Pete with his current client ?

[Mr. Ected]

10. If that precedent stands, then woe be to Republicans

When next a Democrat assumes the Oval Office.

These things cut both ways, you idiots.

I wonder if Bob Mueller chuckles every time he tightens the vice and Trump's pivots paint him more and more deeply in a corner.