Radical constitutionalism
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A battle-tested D.C. bureaucrat and self-described Christian nationalist is drawing up detailed plans for a sweeping expansion of presidential power in a second Trump administration. Russ Vought, who served as the former president’s budget chief, calls his political strategy for razing long-standing guardrails “radical constitutionalism.”
He has helped craft proposals for Donald Trump to deploy the military to quash civil unrest, seize more control over the Justice Department and assert the power to withhold congressional appropriations — and that’s just on Trump’s first day back in office.
Vought, 48, is poised to steer this agenda from an influential perch in the White House, potentially as Trump’s chief of staff, according to some people involved in discussions about a second term who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.
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I'd be somewhat less alarmed if I believed the Supreme Court was going to assert the primacy of the separation of powers that was enshrined in our constitutional system by Chief Justice John Marshall in Marbury v. Madison. Sadly, their recent tendencies to overturn precedents does not inspire hope, let alone confidence, in the presently constituted court.
Big Al
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If anything the court has leaned toward reducing the power of the executive branch.
