Donald Trump’s opponents are trying to thwart his agenda using the courts – specifically, via nationwide injunctions that negate whole areas of federal policy, like downsizing government departments. The problem for them, explains Byron York in the Jewish World Review, is that the bureaucracy is an extension of the President’s executive authority under Article II of the Constitution – as the Supreme Court recently reaffirmed.
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Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
