Keeping up this thread on Republican dissension over President Trump, another retired GOP Congressman has stepped forward to reprimand his former colleagues, Senator Cohen (R-ME):
All who are elected or appointed to high office are fiduciaries of the public trust. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo once described the standard of a fiduciary’s conduct to be “something stricter than the morals of the marketplace. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive.”
With the exception thus far of Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), Republicans have taken the position that Mueller’s redacted report has resolved all issues of alleged presidential collusion with the Russians and obstruction of justice. Case closed.
This is not a tenable position. The Mueller report has raised nearly as many questions as it has answered. But more important, as someone who legislatively helped craft the original Office of Special Counsel, I can attest that Congress never intended to subcontract out its investigative powers to the executive branch.
[WaPo]
Senator Cohen has written something a little magisterial, simple language that is yet evocative.
And accurate. It’s worth a read.
This still doesn’t constitute a tidal wave of Republican dissension, but it’s another step along the way. Maine Republicans may take notice of it, although whether it’s to exile the apostate from the flock, or to actually act like adults and discuss it with sobriety is still up in the wind.
