DEMS/ELECTIONS/GOP/LEGAL/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With two months left before the midterm elections, Republicans are scrambling to prepare for an onslaught of oversight investigations that Democrats will likely launch if they retake the House in November. The White House is considering adding a whole roster of new attorneys to handle the caseload. Rudy Giuliani, the president’s lawyer, is discussing the possibility of impeachment. And House Republicans are circulating a list of Democrats’ potential lanes of inquiry into Trump, spanning at least 18 different topics—ranging from the president’s tax returns, to his dealings with Russia, to his firing of Jim Comey. They are right to be worried. There is always a storm of oversight activity when a president’s party loses control of a chamber of Congress—the shift from unified to divided government generates a fivefold increase in the number of oversight hearings and quadruples their duration, according to a 2011 study. But two additional factors assure that the level of activity this time will be less a storm than a 100-year flood. Start with the singular profile of Donald Trump. He ran for president promising to be somewhat of a bull in a china shop, and while in office, he’s broken a whole lot of dishes. That gives Democrats a lot to work with, as the lengthy GOP list Axios obtained attests.”
–Andy Wright, “How to Flood the Trump Administration With Investigations,” Politico, September 4, 2018