smith, about the appointments clause of the constitution. constitution has an appointments clause, and to sum it up basically, if you re a principal officer, if you seek to be a principal officer in the executive branch in the president of the united states, he is to nominate the individual, and that person typically gets hearings, maybe not, has to be confirmed by the united states senate. that s the way the frameers wanted it. so we have this special counsel, we have a ruling 30 years ago in a supreme court case, morrison v. olson, the want in court statute, and the court overruled with the great antonin scalia dissenting and provided certain elements in the test, that it s constitutional because the independent counsel is an inferior employee who reports to superior who oversees the case, and there are specific things that this individual is
laws that criminalize violations, there has to be knowledge. you have to show that there was a knowing and deliberate violation of the law in order for it to be criminal. well, most candidates don t know the election law. heck, a lot of lawyers don t understand election laws. this gentleman, former commissioner, the federal election commissioner, chairman, he knows election law. he may be just about the only one in america who really truly knows it. so you couldn t criminalize what trump did if it wasn t properly accounted for as an advance or reimbursement. that is a civil penalty, the equivalent of jaywalking $500 fine but certainly not a crime. mark: i did a search. didn t take me long. of all the federal candidates
if you disagree, say so. the say goes into the decision of morrison v. olson, the case where antonin scalia made his wonderful life, this wolf comes to us in wolf s clothing, talking about how bad the statute is. i think what this shows is how bad that decision was because a superior officer, principal officer has authority to set policy and broad discretion and inferior officer does not. but mueller doesn t really report to anybody. he reports to rod rosenstein, but in fact as you point out, he s got a roving brief that seems unlimited to go in almost any direction he wants, and so i don t know if i want to say that this is directly different from morrison v. olson, it may show morrison v. olson, a, is a bad decision, and b, that the and want you to get a constitutional claim out of
. members of the democrat party have launched a campaign to abolish i.c.e. in other words, they want to abolish america s borders. we condemn these shameful attacks on our great law enforcement. any politician who puts criminal aliens before american citizens should find a new line of work because it s not going to work. not going to work. harris: you are watching town hall america. and we are live in phoenix. president trump has repeatedly gone after liberals for their calls to abolish immigrations and customs enforcement or i.c.e. some two dozen democrats now up for senate and house and gubernatorial seats have called for the agency to either be abolishes or reformed in some
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