Trump Should Unilaterally Appoint A Special Counsel to Oversee DOJ Election Irregularity; incl Mueller Investigation

BlueTex · August 22, 2018, 4:50pm

Are you sure you are a “BestLawyer”? I’m getting skeptical… Was Michael Cohen a fellow student at your law school?

The president can fire the AG any time he wants…

BestLawyer · August 22, 2018, 4:53pm

Any reputably lawyer that is not shaded by a political agenda takes my position. You are trying to say that the legislature can dictate who the inferior officers of the President are. In the Constitution they don’t have that power. I would like one reputable lawyer to give a legal argument that counters what I am saying.

BlueTex · August 22, 2018, 4:58pm

LMAO… How do these “reputably lawyers” suggest this office get funded? Do we just suspend congressional appropriations under Article I?

BestLawyer · August 22, 2018, 5:08pm

Congress is Repubican-controlled. I doubt very much they would refuse to fund a special counsel apppointed by the President to investigate irregularities of the inherently conflited DOJ . If they refused this then they would lose their entire base of support.

BestLawyer · August 22, 2018, 5:09pm

conflicted

lulubee · August 22, 2018, 5:10pm

BestLawyer:

President Trump should unilaterally appoint a special counsel to oversee and investigate the Department of Justice, FBI and Mueller investigation, and should by-pass the Department of Justice on the grounds that it is inherently and incurably conflicted. Jeff Sessions recused himself for all matters stemming from the Mueller investigation, even those matters that have nothing do with Trump-Russia collusion because Rod Rosenstein drafted the mandate so broad that general Attorney General powers were delegated to him, which some would argue cover any matters that are discovered, meaning Sessions’ recusal would extend to any such matters.

Rod Rosenstein is inherently conflicted and wrongfully not recusing himself. He was both a material witness in the firing of James Comey; he helped draft the firing memo, and he signed off on the fourth Fisc warrant, which we now know was predicated on an unverified dossier compiled by Christopher Steele, who had thenceforth been fired by the FBI, leaving Rosenstein completely conflicted, insofar as matters around potential obstruction of justice brought by Mueller against the President, and insofar as the investigation of the abuse of power, fraud and impropriety of the DOJ in procuring Fisc warrants to spy on Trump advisors. Presumably, the inferior officers would feel jeopardized if they besmirched their superior officers - Rod Rosenstein and Jeff Session, and therefore would be conflicted. No matter how far down the chain you go, the conflicts of interests in investigating the wrongdoing of the Department of Justice, and of Robert Mueller, including using the delegation in false pretenses as a tool to "find a crime", instead of investigating an "actual crime", and the use of such special counsel as a pretext for the ulterior motive of impeaching the President, a misuse of the office for political purposes, make it such that these potential wrongdoings cannot be adequately investigated by the Department of Justice, and the Department of Justice cannot be depended on to appoint a special counsel for the same reason they can’t investigate themselves - the entire Department of Justice is inherently conflicted. Therefore, the President should appoint a special counsel to oversee and investigate the Mueller Investigation for possible fraud, abuse of power and misuse of the special counsel to further a political agenda, and investigate the Department of Justice, FBI, CIA and NSA officials for which there is substantial evidence of abuse of power to further political agenda, and potential collusion with Russia, and the Democrats to meddle and rig the election in Hillary Clinton’s favor.

PizzaReverend · August 22, 2018, 5:10pm

Can you name some of these reputable lawyers?

BlueTex · August 22, 2018, 5:10pm

LMAO… Why would congress fund a special counsel that has no basis in law? They are not all idiots…

CaughtInTheMiddle · August 22, 2018, 5:10pm

We’re going to have to put up with a whole bunch of new posters for a while. Things just got really bad for Trump and they’re looking for any way out.

Apocalypto · August 22, 2018, 5:54pm

Yeah, noticed a flood of these this morning.

BestLawyer · August 22, 2018, 7:05pm

Alan Dershowitz to start

BestLawyer · August 22, 2018, 7:21pm

Case law suggests that a President would have the power to appoint a special counsel to investigate the DOJ, that statutory authority would not be necessary, because he is not completely re-organizing the executive branch just making sure it is carrying out the laws properly. https://www.heritage.org/political-process/report/the-presidents-reorganization-authority

LucyLou · August 22, 2018, 7:25pm

Because he’s weak? A failure? He loves the swamp? He’s useless? He’s a fraidy cat? A liar? He knows he’s a criminal? Sessions is more powerful than trump is? Putin is telling Trump what to do?

Forcefield · August 22, 2018, 7:28pm

Because it’s horse poop and horse poop don’t fly.

hwyflier · August 22, 2018, 7:35pm

Or, Trump could resign and save himself, his children, and his country.

dantes · August 22, 2018, 7:35pm

Because if there was reason to investigate Clinton, the DoJ would already be doing it. Demanding it and making it happen himself, unilaterally, if that were even allowed by law, would make him look like a tin pot dictator.

WorldWatcher · August 22, 2018, 7:47pm

And if he is commissioning officers of the United States, as you claim under Article II Section 3 - Then Article II Section 2 also applies in that…

“He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.”

So it would appear that if Congress hasn’t created by law the ability of the President to appoint officers, then the Senate gets advise and consent authority over a new officer position and who is selected. Remember we are not talking about an inferior position already handled by Congress or an “adviser to the President” type of thing. You are talking about an extra-DOJ prosecutor acting as a US Attorny/Prosecutor.

Ya, Congress would have a thing or two to say about that.

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PizzaReverend · August 22, 2018, 7:52pm

BlueTex · August 22, 2018, 7:52pm

Being a BestLawyer and all, would you mind sharing a few citations of “case law” that supports your claim that Trump can create an entirely new entity and fund it out of thin air.

AceRothstein · August 22, 2018, 8:51pm

BestLawyer:

President Trump should unilaterally appoint a special counsel to oversee and investigate the Department of Justice, FBI and Mueller investigation, and should by-pass the Department of Justice on the grounds that it is inherently and incurably conflicted. Jeff Sessions recused himself for all matters stemming from the Mueller investigation, even those matters that have nothing do with Trump-Russia collusion because Rod Rosenstein drafted the mandate so broad that general Attorney General powers were delegated to him, which some would argue cover any matters that are discovered, meaning Sessions’ recusal would extend to any such matters.

Rod Rosenstein is inherently conflicted and wrongfully not recusing himself. He was both a material witness in the firing of James Comey; he helped draft the firing memo, and he signed off on the fourth Fisc warrant, which we now know was predicated on an unverified dossier compiled by Christopher Steele, who had thenceforth been fired by the FBI, leaving Rosenstein completely conflicted, insofar as matters around potential obstruction of justice brought by Mueller against the President, and insofar as the investigation of the abuse of power, fraud and impropriety of the DOJ in procuring Fisc warrants to spy on Trump advisors. Presumably, the inferior officers would feel jeopardized if they besmirched their superior officers - Rod Rosenstein and Jeff Session, and therefore would be conflicted. No matter how far down the chain you go, the conflicts of interests in investigating the wrongdoing of the Department of Justice, and of Robert Mueller, including using the delegation in false pretenses as a tool to "find a crime", instead of investigating an "actual crime", and the use of such special counsel as a pretext for the ulterior motive of impeaching the President, a misuse of the office for political purposes, make it such that these potential wrongdoings cannot be adequately investigated by the Department of Justice, and the Department of Justice cannot be depended on to appoint a special counsel for the same reason they can’t investigate themselves - the entire Department of Justice is inherently conflicted. Therefore, the President should appoint a special counsel to oversee and investigate the Mueller Investigation for possible fraud, abuse of power and misuse of the special counsel to further a political agenda, and investigate the Department of Justice, FBI, CIA and NSA officials for which there is substantial evidence of abuse of power to further political agenda, and potential collusion with Russia, and the Democrats to meddle and rig the election in Hillary Clinton’s favor.

Imagine someone spending as much time typing out a bunch of nonsense as you did here.