And then Wednesday morning, President Trump invoked executive privilege over the entire Mueller report and the documents underlying it, which, again, is a kind of maximalist position. Our fight is about defending the rights of Congress as an independent branch to hold the president, any president accountable. adam liptak Congress would say — and would have a lot of Supreme Court precedent supporting it — that its right to information is quite broad. You almost have the sense that in his maximalist approach, President Trump is almost taunting the House into impeaching him. archived recording (bernie sanders) If for the next year, year and a half, going right into the heart of the election, all that the Congress is talking about is impeaching Trump and Trump, Trump, Trump and Mueller, Mueller, Mueller.

Source: New York Times May 09, 2019 14:50 UTC