Article snippet: Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories WASHINGTON — The capital prides itself on keeping to a schedule and pecking order of its own. Important senators get a “heads up” from the White House about key developments and policy ideas. The White House offers talking points and surrogates to help make the case. Not anymore. Now an unpredictable president is likely to upend all of the news via his 7 a.m. tweets. By early afternoon White House press secretary Sean Spicer is wont to make an SNL-worthy blunder. Check your smartphone by 6 p.m. There’s probably a mind-bending news story freshly posted. Indeed, around that time Wednesday night came news that the Justice Department had appointed a special counsel, Robert S. Mueller, to oversee “Russian government efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election and related matters.” It’s as if a hot and sticky fog of confusion has descended on Washington, driven by an unending pressure system of scandal and calls for investigation and impeachment. But actually clawing a duly elected president out of office via the threat of impeachment? Not that easy. So here is a primer for what to expect through the long summer ahead, using quotes from the last president forced out of office, Richard Nixon, to guide us. “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.” — interview with David Frost on April 6, 1977 Presidents like... Link to the full article to read more