David Harsanyi's headline is The Left Doesn't Believe in the Constitutional Order. True dat!
During oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor threatened America with a good time, warning that the administration is "asking us to destroy the structure of government."
Great. It's about time an unaccountable fourth branch of the state was decimated. Trump v. Slaughter revolves around the president's ability to fire executive branch officials without cause at "independent" agencies. For one thing, nowhere does the Constitution empower Congress to create "independent" anything. The notion is a concoction of our worst former president, Woodrow Wilson, and it was codified nearly a century ago in Humphrey's Executor v. United States, when the court ruled that the Federal Trade Commission was a quasilegislative, executive and judicial agency.
Exactly. Just one more bit of badness from Wilson. Progressives, if it's so important to have "independent" Federal agencies working their will on the citizenry, avoiding checks and balances: write and pass a constutional amendment, and try to get it ratified.
Oh, and the word I would add at the end of David's headline is: "either": making it "The Left Doesn't Believe in the Constitutional Order Either". It's not as if Our Side has been fastidious about that over the past eleven months.
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