as to his arguments that the Presidency is above the law- at least while the President is in office (his service in the Ken Starr investigation notwithstanding).,
Nothing in the Constitution strongly supports the primacy of the executive branch but there's plenty of contemporaneous writing that could be used to craft the desired Originalist conclusion.
Hamilton, for one, argued for a strong Executive in many places, including the Federalist Papers.
Never mind that he was broadly assailed by the Jeffersonians (who the "populist" elements of the GOP tend to find affection for) or the fact that there would be little doubt about what Hamilton meant by A Well Regulated Militia.
"tis, as I said, like the Bible Verse game where you go pick out anything you'd like for a gotcha.
