Trump's Personal Lawyer And Campaign Manager Both Going To Prison

[Final-Fan]

NightlyPoe said:

Final-Fan said:

And why is "firing your subordinate" more inherent to the power of the chief executive than "filing lawsuits" is inherent to the power of a lawyer?

[edit:  Also, please note that he isn't being stripped of the power to fire subordinates.  He is, in the posited scenario, being punished for the motivations he was acting under.  He isn't just being punished for firing a subordinate, he is being punished for acting with corrupt intent while firing his subordinate.  However, even in that case, he still has the power to fire his subordinate.  The subordinate can't file an injunction against being fired on the justification that he was fired for corrupt reasons.  He's fired regardless, but the president is then liable to be punished for doing so (in that scenario).]

Lawyers don't have inherent Constitutional powers of anything.

You're kind of going around in circles on me.

When, earlier, I specifically asked you to elaborate on what you meant by "inherent powers of the executive" [edit: specifically, why you were invoking them as the reason the law doesn't apply to Trump when it normally would], you replied to the effect that you simply meant the fact that he was the boss of Comey.  ("He's technically in charge of the official proceeding.")  Now you're talking about the Constitution.  I feel like you failed to mention something.  Please get to it. 

Last edited by Final-Fan - on 26 August 2018