re: NYT states the obvious: the whistleblower complaint itself is not applicable

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“If the president is essentially withholding military aid at the same time he is trying to browbeat a foreign leader into doing something illicit, providing dirt on his opponent during a presidential campaign,” Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said on Sunday, then impeachment may be the “only remedy that is coequal to the evil.”

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You didn't seem to be very concerned when Joe Biden was doing this.

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But Congress cannot subject the president to the supervision, control or review of a subordinate officer. As the Supreme Court made clear in a 1926 case, all executive branch officials exist to assist the president in the performance of his constitutional duties. An intelligence officer cannot file a whistle-blower complaint against the president, because the president is not a member of the intelligence community; nor does a presidential phone call with a foreign leader qualify as an intelligence operation. The intelligence community works for the president, not the other way around.

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The democrats seemed to forget the part in bold during Mueller's Russia "investigation," and they seem to have forgotten it now.

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Democratic presidential candidates are calling for impeachment. But they should realize that they themselves remain the framers’ primary remedy for presidential abuses of power. The Constitution trusts the American people, acting through the ballot box, to render judgment on President Trump. Democrats should trust the framers’ faith in the American people, too.

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Future Democratic presidents will be immune as Congress and the media will turn a blind eye to their alleged misdeeds. This has nothing to do with national security or upholding the Constitution. This is 100% about "getting Trump."