And the principle that no person is above the law." - #MuellerReport

[Soph0571]

Link to tweet

“The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President’s corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law.” - #MuellerReport

Indeedy

[kentuck]

1. But no person is above the law if...

Congress uses its authority. If they do not, then a person can be above the law.

[Pachamama]

2. +10000

Completely agree

If he is not impeached then he is above the law and the bar set in such a way that every President in future can do as they wish. The laws be damned.

[Harker]

4. Right.

That's what troubles me about the "just not worth it " line of thinking.

Every concession brings more lawlessness.

[Botany]

3. In other words Mueller wrote the report for Congress not A.G./Fixer Barr

n/t

[anarch]

5. well, a "person," sure...but that principle says nothing about God Emperors

I think we need to get the Republicans to openly and publicly state for the record that this is what they are going with. It holds up to logic, right? These laws were written for men...not for deities or superhuman demigod-types.

I mean, this is how it is for them, isn't it? Their disgusting orange God Emperor is infallible; mere human standards cannot be taken to apply....

[zaj]

6. Republicans and Democrats agree that the Constitutional limits...

...apply to Democrats