I think if you took a secret ballot in the Senate and House, you'd get a majority of Republicans joining on to those libertarian concerns. But the majority of Republicans in both houses see themselves more as field soldiers in the president's army than as independent actors in an independent branch of government. ... That group is very reluctant to challenge their president and to do so in a way that gives Democrats a political issue.
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