Is Trump Restoring Separation of Powers?

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Josh Blackman
National Review
November 20, 2017

Our Constitution carefully separates the legislative, executive, and judicial powers into three separate branches of government: Congress enacts laws, which the president enforces and the courts review. However, when all of these powers are accumulated “in the same hands,” James Madison warned in Federalist No. 47, the government “may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” The rise of the administrative state over the last century has pushed us closer and closer to the brink. Today, Congress enacts vague laws, the executive branch aggrandizes unbounded discretion, and the courts defer to those dictates. For decades, presidents of both parties have celebrated this ongoing distortion of our constitutional order because it promotes their agenda. The Trump administration, however, is poised to disrupt this status quo.

In a series of significant speeches at the Federalist Society’s national convention, the president’s lawyers have begun to articulate a framework for restoring the separation of powers: First, Congress should cease delegating its legislative power to the executive branch; second, the executive branch will stop using informal “guidance documents” that deprive people of the due process of law without fair notice; and third, courts should stop rubber-stamping diktats that lack the force of law.

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[To-Whose-Benefit?]

The Trump administration has now called for ending the Chevron doctrine and eliminating this judicial abdication."

Hear! Hear!

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The Trump administration has now called for ending the Chevron doctrine and eliminating this judicial abdication."

Hear! Hear!

And that came through Reagan, no less. We've had no gods in that office.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

And that came through Reagan, no less. We've had no gods in that office.

Ex-ACT-ly.

I'm a big fan of RWR, but he Was NOT perfect.

We've never had a Perfect President, or Congress Critter, or dog catcher for that matter.

So where's all this 'BUT TRUMP', bashing from?

He's not perfect either, but so far, he's shown himself to be way out ahead of what we Could have been stuck with.

[Machiavelli]

Bump

[Fishrrman]

To-Whose opined:
"He's not perfect either, but so far, he's shown himself to be way out ahead of what we Could have been stuck with."

Once more, I will state with certainty:
No one else amongst the other Republican candidates -- NOT ONE OF THEM -- would have accomplished as much as Mr. Trump has, so far. Even in the face of such democrat-communist opposition.

I sense we're going to see a lot more of the same.