Graham Pushes Unconstitutional Bill to Prevent Trump From Firing Mueller

Graham indicated he would introduce his bill sometime next week and it will be designed to block a president from firing a special counsel without a federal judge’s approval if that counsel is investigating the president or his administration.

Mueller was appointed May 17 by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to investigate alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and possible Russian collusion with the Trump election campaign.

In other words, it’s a snipe hunt in search of a crime that doesn’t appear to exist. Since the appointment, Mueller has loaded up his staff with about 15 lawyers with significant ties to Democrats.

The South Carolina Republican has a Democratic cowriter on the legislation in Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.), who said on MSNBC earlier this week that he had “concerns” about Trump attempting to oust Robert Mueller.”

Displaying his colossal ignorance of the Constitution, Booker noted, “It has to be for cause and the judicial branch should have a say in whether there is legitimate cause or not.”

Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution makes no such provision. What is clear is the Founding Fathers designed the presidency as a “unitary executive” with complete authority over the executive branch of government.

Those who support the unitary executive concept maintain that the power of Congress to interfere with intra-executive decision-making (including firing executive branch officials) is limited. There simply is no provision for the judicial branch to interfere at all.

The Constitution does invest power in the United States Senate to approve foreign treaties that the president may negotiate and to approve the appointment of Cabinet officers, ambassadors and other high-ranking officials.

Special counsel appointments are clearly within the purview of the Department of Justice and the president has full authority to dismiss officials at that level.

Graham claims his legislation is necessary because of the need for a “check and balance,” not just on President Trump, but all future presidents as well.

The South Carolina senator already had sounded a warning against Trump dismissing Mueller. He claimed that doing so would be the “beginning of the end” for the president.

Rosenstein has said he would refuse to fire Mueller if asked by Trump to do so. But he overlooks the fact that Trump can fire him, as well as Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and appoint replacements who would carry out the order.

In the past, President Richard Nixon fired special prosecutor Archibald Cox during the Watergate scandal, after having Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus resign in protest instead of carrying out the firing of Cox. It fell to Solicitor General Robert Bork to dismiss Cox.

Nixon wanted Cox fired because he believed the special prosecutor was overstepping his bounds in trying to get taped conversations of the president related to the Watergate situation.

Starting to get a sense of déjà vu all over again? Is the Deep State reverting to the Watergate playbook to provoke President Trump into firing Mueller and creating a whirlwind of media and Democrat demands for impeachment? Are Senate Republicans following the lead of those who turned on Nixon in 1974 to force him from office?

If President Trump feels he’s being boxed in by the Graham-Booker bill, and that Mueller has taken the probe off on tangents that will adversely affect his family empire, could he act to oust Mueller and set the scandal-mongers into overdrive?

It’s clear the Deep State will go to extra-constitutional means to attack President Trump, whose nationalist, populist agenda presents a real threat to its globalist, one-world schemes.

Source: The Hill