May 18, 2019

Trump’s not claiming executive power. He’s going for divine right.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-not-claiming-executive-power-hes-going-for-divine-right/2019/05/14/c439cff8-7687-11e9-b3f5-5673edf2d127_story.html?fbclid=IwAR30OBVrt5hx_ccMgeu4004FsNVFcenCZiGEVjY1tHyVdAk8deWxhEnP6D4&utm_term=.127ecf6f30f0
"In 1787, the framers gave us a president, not a king. On Tuesday, lawyers for President Trump gave a dissenting opinion. In the first of many courtroom showdowns between Trump’s executive branch and the legislative branch, Trump’s lawyer William Consovoy argued to U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta that Congress has no authority to pry into Trump’s finances. That was expected. Unexpected was Consovoy’s broader argument: that Congress has essentially no authority to investigate any president for anything."