By joining Slate Plus you support our work and get exclusive content. Rao is both a former Trump White House official and a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Under Rao’s view, Tatel wrote, “Congress must either initiate the grave and weighty process of impeachment or forgo any investigation in support of potential legislation.” So lawmakers would have to enact legislation “uninformed and with its oversight function informationally crippled.” Tatel continued:Slate’s sharpest takes, curated and distilled by Slate’s copy desk, delivered to your inbox every day.Slate relies on advertising to support our journalism. Today, in dissent, Trump appointee and Clarence Thomas acolyte Neomi Rao did nothing to assuage the fears that Trump judges will rule for Trump, rule of law be damned.
Unhinged from corporate overlords, we fight to ensure no one is forgotten.“The thrust of Rao’s dissent is that the House has to invoke its *impeachment power* to investigate the president,” Stern writes on Twitter. And you'll never see this message again.You’ve run out of free articles. Which is just not true! Congress passes legislation governing the executive branch all the time!President Donald Trump's Thursday morning tweet calling for a delay in the November 2020 presidential election drew immediate concern and outrage from leading experts.If taken seriously, Rao's argument would insulate the president from congressional investigations into his illegal conduct *unless* (1) the House invoked impeachment and (2) the courts found the allegations to be within "the scope of impeachable offenses." What? WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump appointed Judge Neomi Jehangir Rao, 45, who was confirmed by the full Senate on March 13 by a strictly party line vote of 53-47, with all the Republicans voting for and Democrats against, on her lifetime appointment to the D.C.
If you value our work, please disable your ad blocker.Her dissent, however, is utterly detached from Supreme Court precedent and instead rooted in a startling and novel conception of presidential power.
!”Raw Story is independent. It rests on the assertion that “allegations of illegal conduct against the President cannot be investigated by Congress except through impeachment.” According to Rao, impeachment “provides the exclusive method for Congress to investigate accusations of illegal conduct by impeachable officials.” If the House attempts to probe the president’s alleged wrongdoing on any basis other than impeachment, he is insulated from its demands. !The thrust of Rao's dissent is that the House has to invoke its *impeachment power* to investigate the president. Join Slate Plus to continue reading, and you’ll get unlimited access to all our work—and support Slate’s independent journalism.