The legal warrant under which Eli n was seized from his Miami home on April 22nd was now, it is widely agreed, obtained under false pretenses. None of this matters, and they knew it would not matter . The whole sorry tale of Eli n Gonz lez has been a demonstration of how clever elites can game the system. It was many times remarked during the recent proceedings to impeach this President that when matters reached a similar stage during the Watergate crisis, it was Republicans who were urging Nixon to go, feeling that he had overstepped the bounds of propriety. It would be consoling to think that if the present gang can be removed and some leaders of principle installed, we might return to those former notions of decency and propriety in high office, and to a genuine separation of powers in which judges, congresspersons and executive officers watch each other gimlet-eyed for any sign that one branch of government might attempt to usurp the prerogatives of another.
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