No matter what that judge said, he was in the sophistry zone.
The president has the power to shut down the entire investigation, fire the special counsel, (notice the word independent wasn’t used), Fire the FBI director, and pardon the person being investigated. And yet, moronic sophists in the legal field pretend he can “obstruct” these same people. Laughable.
Its an ongoing fiction designed to try to make the DOJ independent of their constitutional supervisor, the President. But it has zero basis in law or constitution. They don’t like that they are merely a fully subordinate executive agency, but that is what they are.
For a recent review, ask Comey how “independent” he was. He advanced your theory and got bit@h slapped.
Thanks for proving my point. Trump could not order Comey around; all he could do was fire him. Which is EXACTLY what I had already posted.
“Its an ongoing fiction designed to try to make the DOJ independent of their constitutional supervisor, the President. But it has zero basis in law or constitution. They don’t like that they are merely a fully subordinate executive agency, but that is what they are.”
Well said. Superb. The DOJ doesn’t exist as some extra-constitutional check on the President, despite what all the leftists say. They work for him. The very reason why we have elections.
The leftists would love an ‘independent’ DOJ politburo to exist in perpetuity as a means to usurp the constitutional authority of a lawfully elected POTUS. Especially Republican Presidents.
Come to think of it, that’s exactly what we have right now.