Historically, the executive branch has steadfastly defended its right to control classified information and execute foreign policy under Article II authority granted to the president in the Constitution.
Looking to the legislative history of these statutes, we can see an executive branch consistently seeking to minimize the extent to which Congress can peer into the activities of the president.
While the Senate may have been fine with grossly expanding the powers of the legislative over the executive, President Clinton was right to push back on this, and ultimately prevailed.
Neither president could have imagined he was authorizing Congress to receive classified whistleblower reports related to his own conduct, especially as it pertains to foreign policy.
Pelosi Pushes Toward Constitutional Crisis This week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the president of saying his Article II powers mean "I can do whatever I feel like." Of course he never said any such thing, but the Constitution does provide him substantial leeway to conduct his duties, and private diplomatic negotiations and other communications of the president have been generally recognized as the executive's inviolable right to keep private-until now.
Conforming to the basic contours of the Constitution, including honoring separation of powers for a president you may not like personally, is still necessary if we are to continue as a nation of laws.
If coup includes an attack on the foundations of the republic, attempting to shatter long-established limits to the powers distributed among the three branches through abuses of the system and mob rule, well, the president makes a pretty good point.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/04/presidents-clinton-obama-objected-to-how-whistleblower-law-was-used-to-get-trump/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=0d95014602-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb
Looking to the legislative history of these statutes, we can see an executive branch consistently seeking to minimize the extent to which Congress can peer into the activities of the president.
While the Senate may have been fine with grossly expanding the powers of the legislative over the executive, President Clinton was right to push back on this, and ultimately prevailed.
Neither president could have imagined he was authorizing Congress to receive classified whistleblower reports related to his own conduct, especially as it pertains to foreign policy.
Pelosi Pushes Toward Constitutional Crisis This week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the president of saying his Article II powers mean "I can do whatever I feel like." Of course he never said any such thing, but the Constitution does provide him substantial leeway to conduct his duties, and private diplomatic negotiations and other communications of the president have been generally recognized as the executive's inviolable right to keep private-until now.
Conforming to the basic contours of the Constitution, including honoring separation of powers for a president you may not like personally, is still necessary if we are to continue as a nation of laws.
If coup includes an attack on the foundations of the republic, attempting to shatter long-established limits to the powers distributed among the three branches through abuses of the system and mob rule, well, the president makes a pretty good point.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/04/presidents-clinton-obama-objected-to-how-whistleblower-law-was-used-to-get-trump/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=0d95014602-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb
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