Posted on 05/13/2018 8:33:49 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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Mr. Mueller’s investigation has crossed a constitutional line, for reasons the U.S. Supreme Court made clear in the 1988 case Morrison v. Olson. That case is best known for Justice Antonin Scalia’s powerful lone dissent arguing that the post-Watergate independent counsel statute was unconstitutional. But Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s opinion for the court, while upholding the statute, set forth limits that the Mueller investigation has exceeded.
At issue is the Constitution’s Appointments Clause, which provides that “principal officers” must be appointed by the president with the Senate’s consent. Rehnquist wrote that independent counsel Alexia Morrison qualified as an “inferior officer,” not subject to the appointment process, because her office was “limited in jurisdiction” to “certain federal officials suspected of certain serious federal crimes.”
Mr. Mueller, in contrast, is investigating a large number of people and has already charged defendants with many different kinds of crimes, including—as in Mr. Manafort’s case—ones unrelated to any collaboration between the Trump campaign and Russia. That’s too much power for an inferior officer to have. Only a principal officer, such as a U.S. attorney, can behave the way Mr. Mueller is behaving. Mr. Mueller is much more powerful today than any of the 96 U.S. attorneys.
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As a principal officer, Mr. Rosenstein could legally have brought all the indictments Mr. Mueller has. But he may not delegate that authority to Mr. Mueller, any more than President Trump could delegate his veto power to Mr. Rosenstein.
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This is a very good argument. Unfortunately it has swallowed the quaint idea that the government that we live under has the slightest intent to follow the constitution of 1789.
It is only used today as a template. Whatever the oligarchy wants to do must be written in a way that seems to follow it. But make no mistake, our government no longer feels bound to it. The only other use they find for it is when they want to use it against the people in some manner.
Isn't this what these Leftist subversives of our legal system do? Remember when Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Comey was "wrong to usurp the attorney general's authority" by determining the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails should be closed without prosecution?
I’m not 100% sure on this. But feel and the same way you’ve described.
Many people may have jail in their future, or hopefully long prison terms.
“Too bad Trump doesn’t have the gonads to Fire Him.”
Please stop your criticism of a great president.
Dark state is not based on law. It is a beast of the field and it does what it wants.
Yes it is WWF, he is the Hero and they are the Villians. I am waiting for the smack down however...
It’s not my theroy, Rush Limbaugh was pointing out the obvious the other day. He also believes banking on hate long term loses. It’s really hard to carry hate at fever pitch that long. In the meantime Trump talks about an obvious witch hunt and said the left keeps proving they are liars. It also helps when the press picks on Sarah Sanders. She has a Huge and loyal fan following. A great lady doing a great job inspite of the a$$holes she has to deal with. I just happen to agree with Rush. And Mark Levin has been rocking lately.
Rush makes great points and it’s coming out in the wash as well. I haven’t had a chance to listen to Levin lately in depth. But will. I lately keep seeing content that catches my eye and attention and upon reading see it’s a quote from Levin. thanks!
“THAT WAS ON THE LINE!” - Mueller McEnrow
After all it took to get to this point, the Alliance would never permit the unwelcome removal of President Trump by ANY means. Whatsoever.
“Too bad Trump doesn’t have the gonads to Fire Him.”
“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!” I laughed sarcastically.
And Mueller’s team seems to be botching things so badly in these cases anyway ... they couldn’t do worse if they did it deliberately.
Trump is watching Mueller flounder and flail in a deep cess pit of his own making. Why should the President pull him out. Let Mueller drown in Sxxt.
I can't wait.....
"Never do what your enemy desires, for this reason alone, that he desires it - Napoleon.
Mueller is begging to be fired. The question is, why?
Many on here had no problems hating Obama the full 8 years.
The Dems "just know" that when Mueller drops the hammer, the UN will step in and make Hillary POTUS....and they'll all live happily ever after.
I loved fairy tales as a child....I'm so pleased that Dems love them, too (smirk).
That isn’t an issue, hating Obama, what he stands for, and wanting his policies to fail utterly is completely appropriate since many of them were anti-American at best (did not have American interests at heart) or anti-Constitutional at worst.
Advocating for Obama’s removal from office at a personal level for a variety of reasons is not inappropriate when taking into account things like Fast and Furious as just one example.
But advocating, at various government (Congressional figures) and agency (FBI, CIA, DOJ) levels, and conspiring to do so on obviously false charges is beyond the pale and demands prosecution. This is quite a different thing.
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