It’s impossible, the lawyer said, for the president to obstruct justice under the law. John Dowd, pictured in 2007, is one of the lawyers representing President Trump. “Dowd and others have to argue that a president can’t obstruct justice because the facts are increasingly stacked against them,” he said. “There’s never been a case in history where a president has been charged with obstruction of justice for merely exercising his constitutional authority,” Dershowitz said. Clinton was impeached by a Republican-controlled House in 1998 after his affair with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern, was revealed.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 04, 2017 23:37 UTC