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January 30, 2017 10:19 am PST
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Lawrence Lessig on how Congress should behave when the president breaks the law
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 havebecause they knew that in a critical sense, the very stability of the Republic depended on them behaving as adults." (more…)
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