Brett Kavanaugh’s expansive views on presidential power have raised some eyebrows since his nomination, given the freewheeling president who selected him.
But those broad views on the executive will likely come under a microscope to an even greater extent after President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, implicated the president in campaign finance crimes in Manhattan federal court Aug. 21.
Cohen detailed in his guilty plea his hush money payments at the request of then-candidate Trump to conceal potential damaging information—including Trump’s alleged affair with the now-infamous Stormy Daniels—in the run-up to the 2016 election.
The remarkable development took place ...
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