The Mueller-Rosenstein conspiracy is beginning to unravel, and it’s happening fast. These puffed up, presumptuous Grand Inquisitors will soon be on the receiving end. This will be fun to watch. The Great Comeuppance is my term for what’s about to unfold.
If Trump handles this correctly, which I believe he will, his approval rating will quickly be above 50%. And the names Mueller and Rosenstein, and the institutions they represent, will be mud.
Those are the words that send chills down the spines of lawyers. This was President Andrew Jackson’s response to Chief Justice Marshal’s opinion in Worcester V. Georgia (1832). In that case the Supreme Court attempted to dictate to the President. Lawyers love it when judges tell elected officials what to do. It empowers them.
Jackson was telling the Court to go to hell. The Constitution does not subordinate the President to the Supreme Court. Show me where that is in the text.
I think the time is coming when President Trump should deliver a message to all the lawyers who think they have some authority over him. Go to hell. Or, you’re fired.
Who decides? It was the principle at stake in 1868, and it’s essentially the same today. Is there one man, the President, who decides executive branch policy, or do others have a say as well?
The language of the Constitution is unequivocal. The President alone decides how to enforce the law. No one else.
When President Andrew Johnson fired Secretary of War Stanton, Congress challenged his authority to do so in the only way it could — he was impeached in 1868. If the Senate had convicted him, and removed him from office, the result would have been a form of parliamentary government, in which the legislature controlled the President, and the executive branch. Because he was acquitted, the Presidency, and the system designed by the Framers, was saved.
Today lawyers in the Department of Justice and the FBI think they have some authority independent of the President. It is a usurpation of power and a challenge to the Presidency. Not to Trump. To the office of President.
This challenge by a cabal of government lawyers to the power of the Presidency will end in their ignominious defeat. They can only win if Trump is impeached, convicted, and removed from office. That’s not going to happen, so the outcome of this contest is preordained. It’s just a question of how and when Trump chooses to end it.
Mueller has been given enough rope to hang himself, which he is in the process of doing. President Trump can put him out of his misery any time he chooses.
“You’re fired,” is Trump’s trademark phrase. To end this challenge to the Presidency, all he has to do is say it.
In college we spoke Big Al talk, and one of the terms we used was PB, for perfect being. On the Cal campus, PB’s were most commonly seen on fraternity row. A PB is perfect in every way. When a PB would come out of his fraternity house, he’d look all around, to see if anyone was looking at him, admiring his perfection.
The Bush and Romney families were PB’s, and Romney lost the presidential election of 2012 because he was a PB. Blue collar whites despise PB’s, and refuse to vote for them. These guys wouldn’t vote for Obama, but they also would not vote for Romney. If they had turned up at the polls six years ago, Romney would have squeaked out a victory, the same way Trump did in 2016.
In 2014 or so I was an avid follower of Nate Silver’s website, 538.com. The data provided there showed the path to victory for a Republican. Get blue collar whites to vote for you, and you can win. Trump saw the same thing. The man knows polls.
The Great Republican Presidential Field of 2016 had a few PB’s in it, including, of course, Jeb! Trump beat all these people because there isn’t an ounce of PB in him. He’s a flawed man, and those white working guys could identify with him.
Ronald Reagan was not a PB because he was a genuinely humble man. Trump’s not a PB for entirely different reasons.
CNN is featuring a column by renowned attorney Peter Zeidenberg (Z), and I should have known better, but I read it. Since I broke some ribs a couple weeks ago, I try not to laugh, because it hurts. When I finished reading this piece, I was practically rolling on the floor, it was so funny.
Z lists his credentials in his byline, and they’re impressive. He spent 17 years as a prosecutor at the Justice Department, and was Deputy Special Counsel in the persecution of poor old Scooter Libby, who was recently pardoned by President Trump. He’s now a criminal lawyer, specializing in the defense of white collar crime. I’m guessing, but I’ll bet he bills at $500 an hour.
Since he’s a lawyer, who passed the bar exam, Z’s IQ is almost certainly above 100. But you’d never know that from reading his essay. This man lacks any understanding of the first sentence in Section 1 of Article II of the Constitution. I’m sure he’s read it a couple times, but it was obviously over his head.
What he doesn’t mention in his byline is that he was lead trial counsel in United States vs. Safavian. He obtained a conviction, but the U. S. Court of Appeals repudiated his tactics and reversed it.
I doubt Z was born this stupid. It took three years of law school, and 17 years in the Justice Department, to reach the depths of ignorance he displays.
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