"How does going from being a senator to a president rewrite the Constitution?" Gowdy asked.
"What's different from when he was a senator? Mr. Speaker, I don't think there's an amendment to the Constitution that I've missed. I try to keep up with those with regularity."
Gowdy went on to argue that "process matters" in law enforcement, noting that evidence gathered with a legitimate search warrant is thrown out if an officer so much as accidentally checks the wrong box on the application. "Even though he was well-intended, even though he had good motivations, even though he got the evidence — because process matters," he added.
"We all swore an allegiance to the same document that the president swears allegiance to, to faithfully execute the law," Gowdy continued. "If a president does not faithfully execute the law... what are our remedies?"
He then argued that Congress should do exactly what then-Sen. Obama suggested before he was president of the United States: "To go to the Supreme Court and have the Supreme Court say once and for all: 'We don't pass suggestions in this body. ... We don't pass ideas — we pass laws. And we expect them to be faithfully executed."
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