I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons.

No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.

You know, in the oath that brand-new citizens take, it contains six different references to 'the law.' If it's good enough for us to ask brand-new citizens to affirm their devotion to the law, is it too much to ask that the president do the same?

Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years we offer for public office, and if you don't want to do it then don't run. But the notion that you can make $174,000 in this country and be underpaid is laughable.

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.

Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.