Analysis: Brett Kavanaugh said Congress should hold presidents accountable. William Barr agreed.
FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019 file photo, House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Elijah Cummings, D-Md., right, speaks as he gives closing remarks with Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the ranking member, at left.
Kavanaugh, then a top lawyer for the Starr investigation, was averse to both a badly-behaved president and the Independent Counsel Statute. For Congress to sit idly and defer to the counsel’s investigation, he said, is “not what the Constitution contemplated.” Like Kavanaugh, Barr — the recently-confirmed attorney general — once expressed dissatisfaction with Congress’s shrinking role in presidential investigations.
“The Committee is limited by constitutional issues,” he said, like separation of powers and balance of powers between the branches of government. Meyer also noted that there are limits to the information an oversight committee can obtain. Barr, at his January confirmation hearing, agreed, suggesting that whether a president is found to have violated a statute, he “would be accountable politically.”
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