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Rep. Ted Lieu
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Congress has been investigating matters related to abuse of power since it was founded. To question this authority, as the president has done so vigorously, is to challenge one of the foundational principles of our democracy: checks and balances.

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If Trump can shirk laws that don’t suit him, then our country has no guardrails to keep us safe. Congress has a constitutional duty to ensure that Executive Branch officials are not able to wield their power with absolute impunity.

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Sen. Graham once said of impeaching Nixon: “the day Richard Nixon failed to answer that subpoena is the day that he was subject to impeachment because he took the power from Congress over the impeachment process and he became the judge and jury.”

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The next steps we take in Congress will be determined by the Trump administration’s willingness to treat Congress as the co-equal branch it is, and to provide the American people with the truth.

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Trump is declaring a #NationalEmergency to build a wall we don’t need to address a crisis that doesn’t exist! It's time for @POTUS to face the facts on this episode of #TruthWithTed.
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Rep. Ted Lieu
@RepTedLieu
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Rep. Ted Lieu
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Once again @realDonaldTrump misuses his executive power with no good or rational reason for these pardons.
.@realDonaldTrump's abuse of the pardon power is a grave threat to America. Yet it was only just a few weeks ago when the @HouseGOP voted along party lines to block our efforts to impose proper oversight. bit.ly/2xVJ3kD.
.@realDonaldTrump nominated #BrettKavanaugh, someone who could rule that @POTUS can pardon himself and/or can't be indicted. No one is above the law and if Trump thwarts Russia investigation with pardons, we might never recover. Our op-ed w/ @BillPascrell: usat.ly/2toMScD
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With Team Mueller leaking to NYT and WaPo that Barr understated their case, seems people missed the AG's slight-of-hand.
Barr thinks POTUS can't commit criminal obstruction. And Mueller didn't charge him.
But Trump's not accused of criminal obstruction
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History of immunity

MAN did not always know diplomacy; much less the need to, or the benefits of, conferring diplomatic immunities or privileges to visitors. In ancient times, emissaries of sovereigns who came to deliver messages -either of war or even of amity- were considered
fair game, and often killed.
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warning his assaulters: “This stain will be washed away with blood!” Needless to say that the Romans, indeed made sure that it was, at the Second Punic War where Hannibal’s Carthage would be defeated and Spain was excised from it for good.
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