As Peter Baker recently noted in the Times, it has been politically unthinkable since Watergate that a President could fire an F.B.I. director who was investigating him or his associates, force out an Attorney General for failing to protect him from an investigation, or offer pardons to potential witnesses against him. Now Trump is flatly dismissing Congress’s authority to conduct oversight of the executive branch. Unless Trump is stopped by court rulings, his defiant brand of politics and his sweeping control of the Republican Party will redefine the balance of power between the President and Congress for decades."
and I can't wait for Dems to give these nitwits a dose of their own medicine
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Donald Trump’s Unprecedented Assault on the Power of Congress
Trump and his allies are invoking a form of executive privilege that would systematically undermine Congress’s power and the post-Watergate norms established by the former President Gerald Ford.
and I can't wait for Dems to give these nitwits a dose of their own medicine
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About this website
NEWYORKER.COM
Donald Trump’s Unprecedented Assault on the Power of Congress
Trump and his allies are invoking a form of executive privilege that would systematically undermine Congress’s power and the post-Watergate norms established by the former President Gerald Ford.