I think you have been conducting this in a respectful, appropriate, and deliberate way.
Mr. Chairman, if I might add an additional point, I agree with my colleague.
I would put the final nail in the coffin.
You expressed a view at the time that a President can fire at will a prosecutor criminally investigating him. Is that st...
Will you also agree that Morrison was correctly decided?
What I am encouraged by is, that you have said when you call U.S. v. Nixon the greatest, you think it is rightly decided...
I think that your explanation of how you ruled in the Hamdan case is admirable.
In an exchange you had with Senator Feinstein earlier today, this was exactly the question where I do not think you ever...
a key way to ensure that no one is or should be above the law is to ensure that the President is not above the law by pr...
the rule of law requires that those who are governed and those who govern both be bound by the law.
I hope to question you today about your views on rule of law, separation of powers, Presidential power.
I went back to look at 'Presidential Administration' by Justice Kagan after you cited it to me yesterday.
There have to be some limits to Executive power where he, head of the executive branch--the President in our case--canno...
The genius of our system, or separation of powers, and the independent judiciary is that we can never allow that to happ...
The President is not simply another individual. He is unique. He is the embodiment of the Federal Government and the hea...
The next person who refers to an FBI report as being worth anything obviously does not understand anything.
The reason why we cannot rely on the FBI report, you would not like it if we did because it is inconclusive.
So if U.S. v. Nixon was rightly decided, was Morrison v. Olson rightly decided?