Francis Wilkinson, Columnist

Impeachment and the ‘Preposterous’ Power of the Presidency

Obama’s White House counsel Robert Bauer on “reckoning with a problem that has been obvious for some time.”

December 6, 2018 at 9:00 AM EST

Francis Wilkinson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US politics and policy. Previously, he was executive editor for the Week and a writer for Rolling Stone.

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Robert Bauer served as counsel to President Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns and as White House counsel from 2009 to 2011. One of the leading experts in U.S. laws regulating political activity, he teaches law at New York University. In late November we communicated via email. What follows is a lightly edited transcript.

Wilkinson: Does the Office of White House Counsel serve a president or the presidency? How can we tell?

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