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Senior House Republicans are breaking with Donald Trump over the presidents legal claims that Congress cant investigate whether a commander-in-chief violated the law.
That view, advanced by Trumps personal attorney and White House counsel late last week, would upend long-held understandings about Congress ability to scrutinize presidential conduct especially alleged criminal activity.
Im in Congress. Im aligned with Congress. Im not aligned with the executive branch. And I think we have oversight authority over the administration, said Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), a member of the House Judiciary Committee. And if the president has acted illegally, then I think we have oversight authority.
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), a veteran lawmaker who first came to Capitol Hill in the early 1980s as a congressional staffer, also said he didnt agree with Trumps legal theories.
Obviously there is such a thing as congressional oversight, Cole said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/some-republicans-unsettled-by-trumps-sweeping-claims-of-immunity/ar-AABDG3g?li=BBnbcA1
We'll see.
C_U_L8R
(45,029 posts)Congress has to decide whether it continues to exist.
Baconator
(1,459 posts)marylandblue
(12,344 posts)I'd be very concerned if they were concerned.
Baconator
(1,459 posts)Just kidding... Same shit, different day.
yellowcanine
(35,703 posts)The suspense is killing me.
hatrack
(59,596 posts). . . . but only just, with Troubled moving up on the inside and Concerned battling neck and neck on the outside!!!! Now, with just more than 100 yards to go, the front-runners are converging . . . . and it's Concerned by a nose!"
And the crowd goes wild.
TomSlick
(11,120 posts)Any member of Congress that is not highly pissed-off is an invertebrate.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I will believe their "unease" when they stand for something.
keithbvadu2
(36,992 posts)Supporting it for Trump would mean supporting it for a democrat Prez.