Re: the ability of a President to fire a Special Prosecutor/Special Counsel; one of the advantages of living a long time is experiencing some incidents that have now come about again; Nixon tried to get Archibald Cox fired and could not legally do so on his own orders; Nixon then tried to get the AG to fire Cox, but the AG refused and resigned in disgust; Nixon moved on down the food chain and tried to get the Asst. AG to fire Cox and the Asst. AG also quit in protest; Nixon was finally able to get the Solicitor General to do the firing, but the end result was the filing of an obstruction of justice count added to the impeachment articles based on Nixon's actions in firing the SP:
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On November 14, 1973, federal district judge Gerhard Gesell ruled firing Cox was illegal absent a finding of extraordinary impropriety as specified in the regulation establishing the special prosecutor's office. Congress was infuriated by what it saw as a gross abuse of presidential power—as were many Americans, who sent an unusually large number of telegrams to the White House and Congress in protest.
Less than a week after the Saturday Night Massacre, an Oliver Quayle poll for NBC News showed that, for the first time, a plurality of U.S. citizens supported impeaching Nixon, with 44% in favor, 43% opposed, and 13% undecided, with a sampling error of 2 to 3 per cent.[11] In the days that followed, numerous resolutions of impeachment against the president were introduced in Congress.
But the House Judiciary Committee did not approve its first article of impeachment until July 27 the following year – more than nine months after the Saturday Night Massacre – when it charged Nixon with obstruction of justice. Two more articles of impeachment quickly followed.
Nixon resigned less than two weeks later, on August 8, 1974.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre
Trump is welcome to try to repeat history...
I don't think his outcome will be any different than Nixon's...
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