Neal Katyal: “I guess it’s going to chill future presidents from plotting a coup and telling your White House counsel about it.”

A crime requires two things. It requires a bad act and a bad criminal intent.

Delay is the name of this game, and they know the prospects before the Court of Appeals are quite weak.

It is, again, not the way our democracy is supposed to work.

No other president in our lifetimes has ever attempted to violate for-cause removal statutes in this manner.