You could get a case of whiplash watching the federal court back-and-forth in the dizzying legal battles over just what executive branch power President Donald Trump is permitted to have.
The administration’s fight to fire two federal board members in the bag for Democrats is a leading example of Trump’s understandable assertion that the executive branch has authority over, well, the executive branch — powers that have been eroded over the last century by Congress, courts, powerful bureaucracies, and weak presidents.
Trump, tested and sharpened by the legal wars of his first term, is first and foremost spurring into action a Chief Justice John Roberts-led court that has shown itself to be tediously cautious and, at times, feckless, in resolving core constitutional questions while proving hasty in slowing Trump’s use of executive power. Even corporate media, certainly no friend of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority, have conceded as much…
The Federalist 
