"If I don't follow an order from POTUS, am I breaking the law?" People who were guardrails to say 'don't listen to that'

[tanyev]

3. Republicans have had trouble with that for awhile now.

Rant: Learning to Love the Imperial Presidency
How conservatives made peace with executive power.

GENE HEALY | FROM THE OCTOBER 2007 ISSUE

"I took an oath, and I take that oath to the president very seriously," former White House aide Sara Taylor told the Senate Judiciary Committee during the summer hearings on the U.S. attorneys purge. Taylor's statement prompted an indignant clarification from Sen. Patrick Leahy (D'"Vt.): "No, the oath says that you take an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution of the United States!"

Leahy was right, of course. But it's not surprising that the 32-year-old Taylor, born the month after Nixon's resignation, had some trouble locating the object of her sworn fealty. For as long as she's been alive, the conservative movement has prioritized the expansion of presidential power, often at the expense of the Constitution.

https://reason.com/2007/09/12/rant-learning-to-love-the-impe/