When I did counterintelligence investigations, they rarely saw the inside of a courtroom. That wasn’t the goal of them.

When it comes to the separation of powers, the Constitution makes it look pretty simple: Congress makes the laws, the president enforces them and the judiciary adjudicates them. In reality, though, the lines between the branches are a little blurrier than they seem on paper.

But history shows that when courts intervene because a president is trying to shield his own conduct, the deck is stacked against him.

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