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janinsanfran's avatar

It's not really a theory. It's an excuse for a power grab that Republicans can't win through democratic processes. I realize lawyers have to treat the "unitary executive" as if it had substance, but the rest of us need to get real. What kind of political system we'll have will be determined by what we'll put up with. So it has always been.

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Don A in Pennsultucky's avatar

Our "Originalist" SCOTUS needs to refer to the Executive Branch as it was constituted with respect to Presidential authority. Congress has created much of what is now considered part of the Executive Branch and those agencies that Congress created include restrictions on the President's authority to alter them. Allowing the Executive to overrule the Legislature without vetoing the legislation as it is enacted is a travesty.

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