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a sitting POTUS actually put that in writing and signed his name...

Dowd’s, [Trump's lawyer at the time], statement is apparently premised in part on a spurious “unitary executive” theory, which understands the president’s Article II powers to give him completely unchecked authority to direct, control and supervise inferior officers and agencies that exercise discretionary executive power. This view has been widely rejected, including by the Supreme Court. In Morrison v. Olson, the court upheld the constitutionality of a statute authorizing the appointment of an independent counsel who were appointed by a three-judge panel and removable by the attorney general, not the president, and only for good cause. That is a far cry from the absolute right to direct and control all executive branch personnel that Dowd’s argument posits.

‘We spy with our little Eye’ A Rat-fink Called Obama

Spying for Hillary Clinton, which was to come to reality three years later would be the foolproof way to get her to win the 2016 presidency for Obama’s third term.

Obama’s botched spy games are bringing John Brennan, James Clapper, Jim Comey, Andrew McCabe et al to everlasting public shame.

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The New York Times and others now admit/defend the very Obama-era spy program that they long denied existed and that was being used against the Trump campaign in 2016. Leaving aside the stunning political scandal that is that fact, shouldn’t the Establishment Media now also admit that if the Deep State was spying on Trump all this time doesn’t that also mean it has known there was never any collusion/conspiracy etc., involving Mr. Trump and Russia? That the entire Trump-Russia collusion was a Deep State created hoax all along? It has to be one or the other right?

How about it Establishment Media? Care to also explain your willing participation in this fraud?

Former Vice President Biden tore into President Trump and the Republican Party on Thursday, saying that they have abandoned American values for "phony populism" and "fake nationalism."

Biden made the comments while speaking at the Democratic party's New York state convention on Long Island.

"This is not your father's Republican Party," Biden said, according to the Associated Press.

"They are not who we are. They are not who America is. What they are doing is sending a vision of America around the world that is distorted. That is damaging. That is hurting us ... this phony population, this fake nationalism. ... It's time to say 'no more.' "

Biden, who is considered to be a potential 2020 presidential candidate, has fiercely attacked Trump since he took office. In March, Biden said that he would have "beat the hell out" of him if they had gone to high school together.

"A guy who ended up becoming our national leader said, 'I can grab a woman anywhere and she likes it,'" Biden said, referring to the "Access Hollywood" tape that includes Trump making lewd comments about women and bragging about groping and kissing them without consent.

Trump responded in a tweet, saying if they were to fight, "Biden would would go down fast and hard, crying all the way."

Biden has said he'd make a decision on a presidential run by the end of the year.

Biden:

Biden: GOP under Trump has abandoned American values for 'fake nationalism'

I'm not sure that the party...

Americans were not afraid of other peoples shadows.

That reminds me of Schlemihl, who sold his shadow to the devil for a bottomless wallet.

Assuming for the moment that Morrison v. Olson properly interprets the Constitution*, this would not alter the fact that the President has unlimited power over the head of the FBI.

Perhaps I should fall back on my previous position that, instead of firing Mueller, Trump should just rely on pardons to protect the people who have been harmed by this witch hunt.

The fact that Morrison v. Olsen limits the power of the president over even one executive official means that the power of the president over executive officials is not absolutely, positively complete and not to be disputed under ANY circumstances whatsoever. It has limits.

And since the Supreme Court has ruled that the presient's power has limits, that means the president's power to fire executive officials is limited by the standard that the firing cannot be carried out with evil or self-serving intent,

such as firing Comey because you fear he will find something incriminating against you.

You can't pardon a videotape.

Trump is on record on NBC telling Lester Holt that he fired Comey at least partially because he insisted on continuing the Russia probe. Essentially, Trump's goose is already cooked for obstruction of justice. We're all just waiting for the mountains of evidence coming from Mueller for the dozens of other areas Trump's criminally culpable for, but the obstruction is a sure thing. Unless Trump absconds to Russia first.