Mitch McConnell just did our constitutional order an enormous favor by burying the so-called Robert Mueller protection bill, hopefully never to rise again.
If the president can fire the attorney general, he certainly can fire Mueller.
In compelling Senate testimony, Yale law professor Akhil Amar explained the constitutional problems with the Mueller protection bill.
The Mueller protection bill would really represent a return to the constitutional anomaly of the old independent-counsel statute.
Yes, there's lots of criminal action in the Mueller probe - the Paul Manafort trial, the various plea deals - but current Justice Department guidance says that the president himself can't be indicted.
Trump has huffed and puffed about Mueller, yet cooperated - in some instances, quite fulsomely - with his investigation.
That's probably all the protection Mueller needs, and certainly all the protection he can legitimately be afforded.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/robert-mueller-protection-bill-trump-russia-probe/
If the president can fire the attorney general, he certainly can fire Mueller.
In compelling Senate testimony, Yale law professor Akhil Amar explained the constitutional problems with the Mueller protection bill.
The Mueller protection bill would really represent a return to the constitutional anomaly of the old independent-counsel statute.
Yes, there's lots of criminal action in the Mueller probe - the Paul Manafort trial, the various plea deals - but current Justice Department guidance says that the president himself can't be indicted.
Trump has huffed and puffed about Mueller, yet cooperated - in some instances, quite fulsomely - with his investigation.
That's probably all the protection Mueller needs, and certainly all the protection he can legitimately be afforded.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/robert-mueller-protection-bill-trump-russia-probe/
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