I concur we want him out of the ring yesterday (yesteryear! yester century! but )it's not up to Trump alone to "leave us in peace", it's up to whoever has a heart and a spine and can both reform the GQP and denounce ALL bad-faith media.
Here in DC, our local politicians don't act as if the law is supreme. Same goes for local elected officials on Cape Cod. And same goes for Democrat political officials running federal agencies. It is a guideline to be ignored when convenient and enforced when politically useful.
"The President, after all, is the "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States." U.S.Const., Art. II, § 2. His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security and to determine whether an individual is sufficiently trustworthy to occupy a position in the Executive Branch that will give that person access to such information flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant."
It is a categorical legal impossibility for any President, current or former, to possess classified docs that existed during that President's term. Removing them from a SCIF by the President automatically declassifies them. Why is this? Because the President has plenary authority in that area. He isn't 'an employee of the Executive Branch', he IS the chief Executive. The President MAKES the rules, and all his employees FOLLOW the rules.
Net: there were no "highly classified documents" at Mar-A-Lago when the FBI arrived.
Will the Supreme Court follow Judge Aileen Cannon (who was acting on statements of Thomas and the Federalist Society "scholars") and simply declare the Special Counsel's appointment unconstitutional even if Trump loses the election?
I concur we want him out of the ring yesterday (yesteryear! yester century! but )it's not up to Trump alone to "leave us in peace", it's up to whoever has a heart and a spine and can both reform the GQP and denounce ALL bad-faith media.
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Here in DC, our local politicians don't act as if the law is supreme. Same goes for local elected officials on Cape Cod. And same goes for Democrat political officials running federal agencies. It is a guideline to be ignored when convenient and enforced when politically useful.
See "Navy vs Egan" (1988 SCOTUS) for this quote:
"The President, after all, is the "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States." U.S.Const., Art. II, § 2. His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security and to determine whether an individual is sufficiently trustworthy to occupy a position in the Executive Branch that will give that person access to such information flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant."
It is a categorical legal impossibility for any President, current or former, to possess classified docs that existed during that President's term. Removing them from a SCIF by the President automatically declassifies them. Why is this? Because the President has plenary authority in that area. He isn't 'an employee of the Executive Branch', he IS the chief Executive. The President MAKES the rules, and all his employees FOLLOW the rules.
Net: there were no "highly classified documents" at Mar-A-Lago when the FBI arrived.
Will the Supreme Court follow Judge Aileen Cannon (who was acting on statements of Thomas and the Federalist Society "scholars") and simply declare the Special Counsel's appointment unconstitutional even if Trump loses the election?
"Faith in the rule of law is a uniquely American characteristic."
U wot mate? No it isn't.