If I Were Questioning Brett Kavanaugh

| Walter Pincus
Walter Pincus
Contributing Sr. National Security Columnist, The Cipher Brief

Brett M. Kavanaugh ought to be questioned on how a President, alleged to have violated a federal criminal law – say conspiring to violate the Federal Election Laws – could be investigated based on the views he promoted in his 2009 article, “Separation of Powers During the Forty-Fourth Presidency and Beyond,” published in the Minnesota Law Review.

In that article, Kavanaugh said, “Congress might consider a law exempting a President—while in office—from criminal prosecution and investigation, including from questioning by criminal prosecutors or defense counsel.”

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The Author is Walter Pincus

Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics.  In 2002, he and a team of Post reporters won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. He also won an Emmy in 1981 and the 2010 Arthur Ross Award from the American Academy for Diplomacy.

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