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    1. Mueller devoted numerous pages to dissecting and rejecting the argument by Trump lawyers and Barr in his famous memo that the obstruction of justice law can't be constitutionally applied to a president's corrupt exercise of his executive powers, like to fire a subordinate.
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  1. …in reply to @charlie_savage
    That means Mueller was leaving open the possibility that Trump could be charged with obstruction after he was no longer the sitting president -- a possibility that Barr has tried to take off the table by pronouncing the evidence insufficient to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.