Baby McNown wrote:
Juice's Lecture Notes wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
I heard Trump also said he wants to fire all of Congress. Treason?
And Trump has as much authority to fire Congress as he does to fire Mueller. How can you obstruct justice by wanting something done that can't be done?
Wow you're stupid.
You know, it's odd, I've never actually seen you make a point or argument. You seemingly just regurgitate the final narrative spun from wherever you get your news and analysis and then call people names that disagree with you.
Anyway, here are the issues regarding obstruction vis a vis firing Mueller as I understand them:
1. Does Trump have the authority to fire Mueller, and would ordering a White House attorney to do something that cannot be done be considered an obstruction of an inquiry under the relevant statute? Also, is expressing a desire to do something, but ultimately not following through substantively, constituted as an "endeavor to...." under the law?
2. Can Trump be charged with any crime as a sitting President?
3. Can Trump, as the head of the federal law enforcement agency, obstruct justice by exercising his authority to shape said agency as he sees fit (by firing Rosenstein and appointing someone who would fire Mueller)?
I think most experts agree that the answers to both #1.a and #2 are "no", and
any answer to #3 has never ever been tested.
My gut tells me that the answers to #1.b and .c are likewise "no", because a world where you can obstruct justice—or attempt to—by wishing justice wouldn't happen to you or even ordering something you don't have the authority to order in the first place, is just nonsensical and absurd.