"If he shot James Comey, he'd be impeached the next day," Giuliani was quoted as saying. "Impeach him, and then you can do whatever you want to do to him."
Giuliani, who is representing Trump amid special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, also appeared on a pair of talk shows Sunday.
On both, Giuliani argued that the president probably has the sweeping constitutional authority to pardon even himself of federal crimes.Under normal circumstances, Congress would immediately convene hearings on the matter, with an eye toward impeachment. Under normal circumstances, the media would scramble to get every member of Congress --- but especially members of the president's party --- on record either supporting this authoritarian view or condemning it.
But in case you haven't noticed, these aren't normal times. So it's up to us, the citizens, to badger our representatives into taking a stand either for or against the rule of law.
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