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Originally Posted by Pete F.
The Unitary Executive, as put forward by Attorney General Barr, holds that presidential power over executive branch functions can only be limited by the voters at the next election, or by Congress through its impeachment power. This was essentially the position Barr took in his June 8, 2018 memo to the Justice Department. “Thus, under the Framer’s plan, the determination whether the President is making decisions based on ‘improper’ motives or whether he is ‘faithfully’ discharging his responsibilities is left to the People, through the election process, and the Congress, through the Impeachment process,” Barr wrote. Although Barr does not say it, a president who acted in an improper or faithless way, but who is reelected or who escapes impeachment, could indeed be above the law. Is this really what the Framers intended?
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Above what law are you talking about? A law against improper motives? A law against faithfully discharging his responsibilities? Are there such laws?
The "Framer's plan" to which Barr referred, the Constitution, is the law on how to determine if a President has transgressed his duties. If Congress has determined by impeachment and trial that he hasn't, how is that above the law, above the Constitution? And the people can decide by election if they agree with Congress's decision.