Mark Levin presents ‘overwhelming’ constitutional case against appointment of Mueller

[livingston]

Mark Levin presents ‘overwhelming’ constitutional case against appointment of Mueller
In a special free episode of LevinTV, host Mark Levin embraced an argument made by law professor Steven Calabresi, a friend and former colleague of Levin’s from the Reagan Department of Justice, that the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller was unconstitutional.

Levin believes Calabresi made “an overwhelming case” that the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller violated the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution

The bottom line: Given the power that Mueller is exercising and the fact that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is not supervising his work directly, it is inaccurate to classify him as an “inferior officer” in the Department of Justice. He qualifies as a “principal officer,” a class of federal official like a United States attorney that the Supreme Court has ruled must be appointed by the president and confirmed with consent of the U.S. Senate.

Because Mueller was not appointed by Trump and was not confirmed by the Senate, Levin argues, his appointment is not constitutional. Therefore, every action he has taken under the scope of his investigation with powers granted to him by the DOJ is illegitimate, since his very powers are illegitimate.

“Is there any question in your mind that Robert Mueller is not the most powerful prosecutor in the United States today?” Levin asked. “Is there any question in your mind that he’s not more powerful than any of the Untied States attorneys?”
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Free episode: Mark Levin presents 'overwhelming' constitutional case against appointment of Mueller

 

[masterswimmer]

Yeah? So?

 

[BDinPutnam]

Yawn.

His appointment violated DoJ guidelines and policy, that's for sure. This is half-baked at best. Anyone working for/being paid by DoJ is ultimately serving at the will of the President.

Outside of that, what do you propose? Fire Mueller? Order Rosenstein to fire Mueller (and probably, fire and replace Rosenstein with someone who will fire Mueller)? And then what? Bear in mind impeachment is a political, not a legal, process.

He needs to get the f off twitter, work with his lawyers, and have his staff deal with issues. OIG rightly should be instructed to investigate the allegations of spying on his campaign and abuse of counterintelligence powers. The OIG should not find out about that instruction via Twitter on a weekend.

Sick of the chaos from this egotistical half-wit. RINOS or not, the GOP has now controlled the government for a year and half and has gotten damn near nothing done other than blowing up the debt with the tax plan. And spare me please the deep state/Ryan and McConnell aren't really conservatives crap. If you had a different GOP POTUS in office, I have no one in particular in mind, we might actually be talking about entitlement reform. Oh and you can also please spare me the "ah, so you wanted Hillary to win" canard as well. TIA. End rant.

 

[Pedro]

I think this is good news, I don't know how I missed an episode of "The Great One".
Jay Sekulow is one of President Trump's lawyers, and is an acquaintance, if not a friend of Levin.
Thanks livingston.
Pedro.

 

[Cooolone]

We all know why he was appointed, and we already know what the set agenda was, or the conclusions already reached that they want to find justification for. What you want see is investigations and results from the Gov't of the previous administration that was raped up on steroid doing dirty work centered on political bias!

In other countries, this shit wouldn't be happening and there'd already be some heads posted on spikes along the Capitol Blvd!

It's all smoke & mirrors!