text:  Right. Well, the law has changed a lot over the years, and so it's hard to say exactly. But the special counsel and earlier than this, the independent counsel have been consistently upheld by the courts in many other cases, going back to the Watergate era. And Congress then rewrote the law to make it so it's even clearer. It was upheld again in the special counsel office, was upheld during the Ron Contra proceedings. And then it's been brought up in almost every case, many other jurisdictions.