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Christian Mott@cjmott.bsky.social |
Directing an audit would ordinarily be illegal under 26 USC 7217, which explicitly names the President, so one might think that it is therefore not within the President's core powers. But the criminal laws cannot define those powers or the DOJ portion of this case would have come out the other way.
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Christian Mott
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Given that an audit is, in substance, an investigation of a potential legal violation, it is hard to see how directing a baseless audit could fall into a different category than directing a baseless DOJ investigation for the purposes of immunity.
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