The whole idea behind our Constitution is to prevent the president from just reaching into the bowels of the Justice Department and picking some nobody, some lackey, who is his friend, to do his bidding.
Katyal emphasizes the importance of Senate confirmation to prevent presidential abuse of power.
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If I had seven folders in my Justice Department office, that -- or seven classified documents, top secret ones in my office, I`d be in jail just for having those documents in my office.
Trump's claim to executive privilege is as baseless as his claim that he won the 2020 election.
I think it’s very hard for Merrick Garland at this point, not to indict Donald Trump in federal court. He is, you know, looks like the evidence shows. He’s committed really serious, incredibly serious crimes, and the rulebook kind of…
I think that this really almost forces Merrick Garland, given what the Court of Appeal said last week, to do -- to indict Donald Trump there say -- the Court of Appeals saying, this is really serious, there's no abuse of rights.
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