Nancy Gertner: “The notion that after this kind of behavior, the President can claim now, I'm sorry, I didn't realize what was in my…”

This was a move that, in my view, is so far from constitutional that no judge worthy of their name would ever rule in a different direction.

There is just none. There's no conceivable basis for that.

I would call it a coup.

This is power, it seems to me, that is baked into the Constitution and cannot be taken away.