nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20180628-095855-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 180628s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20180628-095855-0 doi eng 342 23 Mathews, Jud Author aut Is the U.S. President Above the Law? Mathews, Jud Verfassungsblog 2018-06-28 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On June 4, President Trump tweeted that the President has the absolute right to issue pardons, even to himself. The President’s claim came close on the heels of the New York Times’s publication of a letter two White House attorneys had sent months earlier to Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel appointed to investigate links between Trump’s election campaign and the Russian government. The lawyers argued that the President’s firing of FBI Director James Comey could not constitute obstruction of justice, because the President is the chief law enforcement officer of the nation, and can fire the FBI Director for any reason at all. Can it really be the case that the President of the United States is above the law? CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Donald Trump Presidential Powers Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/is-the-u-s-president-above-the-law/ raw object