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Originally Posted by Rochard
It's obstruction of justice no matter how you look at it. If the President attempts to fire someone who is investigating him, it's obstruction of justice. If the president orders the AG to fire the person investigating him, it's obstruction of justice.
It's very simple.
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It isn't simple at all.
What you are stating above is your opinion, which, unless I'm very much mistaken, has no value in any court or legal forum anywhere in the world.
The question of what the president can do within the executive branch, of which he is the head, is quite unsettled.
Further, the one way to definitively answer that question is the process of impeachment, which in my opinion will not happen (though you have stated your opinion is that republicans will, out of fear of losing elections, join in the impeachment of a president of their own party) unless the house goes democrat.
Even in that case for the president to be removed requires a two thirds vote in the senate, or 66 votes. Without ironclad, not political, evidence of active and malicious malfeasance, the result will be the same as when president Clinton was impeached. Nothing.