Presidential power gets a booster shot, no matter Robert Mueller's view

From the moment the special counsel was named, legal observers anticipated legal challenges such as a subpoena to the president that could build to a constitutional crisis

President Donald Trump was never called to account for a Saturday night massacre. Nor was he called to testify before Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
 

That’s in part because of a deft maneuver by Donald McGahn, whose actions as White House chief counsel were among the more significant disclosures in the newly released Mueller report. McGahn flatly refused to take any step to remove Mueller as Trump fumed over the Russia investigation in his first year as president.
 

And when the special counsel’s team asked about that and other presidential deliberations, McGahn obliged. Trump’s lawyers cleared the way for people in