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If the President Doesn’t Run a Bureaucracy, No One Does - That’s Authoritarianism

Exploring the implications of presidential control over federal agencies and authoritarianism.

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By RedState Guest Editorial

Happy New Year. May the best of it find you and yours — and the rest of it get lost before it finds you.

During my personal Christmas-New Year hiatus, this happened….

Supreme Court Seems Likely to Let Trump Fire Independent Agency Heads:

The Supreme Court signaled Monday that it’s prepared to hand President Donald Trump another win in his drive to consolidate his power over federal agencies….

(T)he high court’s conservative majority appeared intent on overturning or effectively gutting a 90-year-old precedent that upheld restrictions on the president’s ability to fire leaders of independent agencies across the executive branch.

Can you imagine? The Chief Executive wanting to have power over the Executive Branch agencies? The nerve….

As is often the case with these cases, the 90-year-old precedent here is totally and completely incorrect. At least if you’re seeking to remain in compliance with the Constitution: