Recall Q 2543 re POTUS twat: Scott Free.
See how POTUS got opponents to explain origin of Scot-Free? But not because he asked – they did it to correct his Tweet.
Sent a message re Clinton Foundation, taxes due, taxes evaded, punishment owed. Think misdirection: serve full and complete sentence. Double meaning.
Meantime (mean time) removed or limited availability of resources and access to feeder sources. On notice. Unnoticed?
According to testimony of Lisa Page, the FBI investigation (predating Mueller) was actually directed/run by DOJ top brass.
Remember 1st & 10 on the 40?
Footnotes 1 and 10 in Mueller Report (Vol 1) referred to the 40 FBI personnel who were governed by FBI regulations etc while the DOJ members of Mueller's team were not; also there was distinction made between the matter that Mueller supervised and the FBI personnel who were supervised/advised by a lawyer provided by the FBI.
Is the leader necessarily the Chief Justice? Might not Roberts delegate (if he recuses himself) to whomever he so desired (or was instructed/negotiated)?
And that imperils CJ Roberts should this go to actual trial in Senate. The Chief may be tempted to steer the trial and in so attempting to test the Executive & Legislative branches to a face-off with Judiciary. Trouble is, would not the rest of the Supreme Court have a restraining power over the Chief – who would review his recusal should such be requested/demanded by any other player in this potential trial?
Usually judges recuse themselves without explanation. Sometimes a request is raised by one of the litigants – at considerable risk to getting on the wrong side of a presiding judge. But this p.o.l.i.t.i.c.a.l. in a way most cases are not explicitly.
Can of worms.
And to become "not the Chief Justice", to make way for another, Roberts would step aside/down in addition to recusing. Two birds. One stone.
Possibly three birds if the replacement Chief is a Prez Trump appointee. Appearance of neutrality might lead to an "acting: Chief during an interim – one selected by the other Justices, or by seniority.
Question: if a Chief were to resign, or die, who would serve in his place? By law or by convention, would it not be the senior Justice remaining? Who might that be today?