But this time, since his lawbreaking seems to remove a threat to the very survival of his Administration in office, it is not just this one act but the continuation of the Administration itself that has become lawless. The question of whether the Republic will live or die has now been decisively posed in this form: Will we remove a lawless Administration from office or will we submit to illegitimate rule?
The question has probably been put in its final form, and may not be asked again. When the President launched the country into the worst Constitutional crisis in its history, he explained that he had done it to avoid a Constitutional crisis. But it was not a Constitutional crisis that the President wished to avoid—it was the Constitution. The problem we all face now is not how to avoid a Constitutional crisis but how to resolve one. And the only resolution the President has left to us, unless he resigns, is for Congress to begin consideration of impeachment proceedings.
The country surveys a scene of devastation. The wreckage of American institutions lies all around us. Any future under the present leadership is unthinkable. The point of no return has been passed, and the country has no choice but to take the first, dread steps toward putting its house in order.
By Jeffrey Frank. By John Cassidy. Cox served as the chairman of Common Cause, a nonprofit lobbying organization focused on campaign finance reform that helped secure the decision in Buckley v. Valeo upholding much of the Federal Election Reform Act of This article was originally published in Howard Leib is an intellectual property and entertainment attorney, an educator and a consultant with his own practice in both New York City and Ithaca, NY.
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