IT LOOKS like the drums are going to be beating over the summer
for a special prosecutor to go after President Obama. The president
is in trouble on every one of the scandals erupting around him,
from Benghazi to the Justice Department’s shenanigans with the
press. The big one is the prospect that, with the misdeeds
committed via the IRS, there was a plot to steal the 2012 election.
This is a good time to pour oneself a slug of scotch, retire to
one’s study, and read one’s copy of Justice Antonin Scalia’s
dissent in the Supreme Court case known as Morrison v.
Olson.
Make it several slugs.
Morrison v. Olson was the case in which the Supreme Court affirmed the use of an independent counsel, authorized by Congress in the wake of Watergate. It involved the pursuit by such a counsel, Alexia Morrison, of a Reagan administration official, Theodore Olson, who was under investigation for having given allegedly false testimony to Congress. Olson was cleared of wrongdoing, but not before he challenged the constitutionality of the very idea of a prosecutor independent from the president.
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/07/24/pillar-to-post
Make it several slugs.
Morrison v. Olson was the case in which the Supreme Court affirmed the use of an independent counsel, authorized by Congress in the wake of Watergate. It involved the pursuit by such a counsel, Alexia Morrison, of a Reagan administration official, Theodore Olson, who was under investigation for having given allegedly false testimony to Congress. Olson was cleared of wrongdoing, but not before he challenged the constitutionality of the very idea of a prosecutor independent from the president.
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/07/24/pillar-to-post
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