(New York Post) — Mitch McConnell just did our constitutional order an enormous favor by burying the so-called Mueller protection legislation.
There’s been much harumphing about how Republicans who didn’t get on board are in the tank for President Trump. But it was a singularly misbegotten bill.
Plan A, i.e., passing the thing, would have been hard enough. But supporters apparently didn’t think through a need for a Plan B or C: Trump would have vetoed the bill if it passed Congress, and if it somehow passed Congress with a veto-proof majority, the Supreme Court would likely have struck it down.
There is no way that Congress can truly prevent the chief executive from removing an inferior executive officer, which is what special counsel Robert Mueller emphatically is.
