Article 2AV4V Lawrence Lessig on how Congress should behave when the president breaks the law

Lawrence Lessig on how Congress should behave when the president breaks the law

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Cory Doctorow
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Lessig compares the current constitutional crisis -- a lawless, reckless president; law enforcement officers flouting federal court orders -- with previous crises, such as the impeachment of Nixon, and says the major difference between then and now: then, Congress had a bipartisan consensus that "they were engaged in the most serious job a member of Congress could have"-"because they knew that in a critical sense, the very stability of the Republic depended on them behaving as adults." (more")

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