“It is simply not fathomable that a Constitution that grants Congress the power to remove a President for reasons including criminal behavior would deny Congress the power to investigate him for unlawful conduct - past or present - even without formally opening an impeachment inquiry,” Mehta said.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1130581848659308544
No, Mr. President, you are not above the law.
and in Trump's head he's frantically smashing the appeal button.
And a hilariously appropriate quote from President James Buchanan to open the opinion:
I do, therefore, . . . solemnly protest against these proceedings of the House of Representatives, because they are in violation of the rights of the coordinate executive branch of the Government, and subversive of its constitutional independence; because they are calculated to foster a band of interested parasites and informers, ever ready, for their own advantage, to swear before ex parte committees to pretended private conversations between the President and themselves, incapable, from their nature, of being disproved; thus furnishing material for harassing him, degrading him in the eyes of the country . . .
Buchanan is considered one of the worst presidents in U.S. history because of his failure to address the extremely contentious partisanship that led to the American Civil War. His biographer, Jean Baker, said:
He was that most dangerous of chief executives, a stubborn, mistaken ideologue whose principles held no room for compromise. His experience in government had only rendered him too self-confident to consider other views. In his betrayal of the national trust, Buchanan came closer to committing treason than any other president in American history.
