4/ Indeed, McGahn essentially ignored Trump's order to fire Mueller. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/us/politics/trump-mueller-special-counsel-russia.html …. McGahn told WH officials he was confident "that Mr. Trump would not follow through on the dismissal on his own." Trump seems like all bark and no bite even to his closest aides.
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5/ Or perhaps as former Trump aide Barry Bennet said in the WP story today, too many confound Trump's threatening bark for his bite. "Trust me, everybody on the campaign was 'fired' more than once, but it never really happened." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-sought-release-of-classified-russia-memo-putting-him-at-odds-with-justice-department/2018/01/27/a00f2a4c-02bb-11e8-9d31-d72cf78dbeee_story.html?utm_term=.37efc5ab2bef …
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6/ I've noted before the remarkable degree to which Trump's senior officials "act as if Trump were not the chief executive. Never has a president been so regularly ignored or contradicted by his own officials."https://www.lawfareblog.com/our-non-unitary-executive …
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7/ Hard to know what's more notable: (a) The president threatening DOJ/FBI over and over in gross violation of independence norms; or (b) DOJ and WH officials ignoring his threats or threatening to resign over them, and Trump backing down.
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8/ The growing and dizzying array of threats by Trump, and threats by officials to resign in response to Trump's threats, suggest that this is not a stable situation (how could it be?).
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9/ The overt disrespect that top folks in WH and DOJ have for him indicate that if and when he actually follows through again with a bite akin to the Comey firing, they will not be with him.
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But I think you've got to account for the House angle. Ryan and Nunes have done some breathtaking things. And they're in a far more protected place than Trump is.
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Given the formulation of SC Mueller's task, at which point do people in Congress fall under its remit?
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Speech and debate is very powerful protection. It's unclear where Nunes' actions on Transition fall--especially, for example, what infrastructure he used. I'd be really interested in hearing Jack's opinion on such things.
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Example ∞ why I'd really like to know more constitutional law. To my unskilled eyes of the SCOTUS cases re speech and debate clause seem like they'd necessarily cover obstruction. IOW, I'd also be very interested in further comments by somebody with law chops.
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