Joyce Beatty: “Reading from Volume II, page 8: ``Congress has authority to prohibit a President's corrupt use of his authority in order…”

“Reading from Volume II, page 8: ``Congress has authority to prohibit a President's corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice.'' ``Article II of the Constitution does not categorically and permanently immunize the President from potential liability for the conduct that we investigated. Rather, our analysis led us to conclude that the obstruction-of-justice statutes can validly prohibit a President's corrupt efforts to use his official powers to curtail, end, or interfere with an investigation.'' ``The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President's corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law.''”