Depending on candidates being rational, good-faith actors who have a default belief in democracy doesn’t work.

I eagerly await the flood of experts explaining why Donald Trump firing Comey to obstruct justice is not obstruction of justice. 😐

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) May 19, 2017

Because a president has the unreviewable authority to fire the Director for any reason. https://t.co/i5GtW1mqye

— Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) May 19, 2017

What this crisis has taught us is that we must legally codify a whole raft of principles & procedures that failed to protect us as norms. https://t.co/kU4e5Hp8T2

— Elliott Lusztig (@ezlusztig) May 21, 2017