Monday, December 4, 2017

On the Claim by Some that In the Middle of a National Crisis, Necessity Sometimes Overrides Law and the Executive Branch Can Do as it Pleases to Maintain Social Order, etc. (Including but Not Limited to Interference with the Other Two Branches and the Assuming of Powers Nowhere Mentioned In the Constitution)

Total bullshit in that as the esteemed historian, Clinton Rossiter, first pointed out decades ago, "The Constitution looks to the maintenance of the pattern of regular government in even the most strident of crisis." Of course being that we've had Republicans such as Lincoln, TR, Nixon, and the two Bushes and Democrats such as Wilson, FDR, LBJ, and Obama who have so repeatedly decided to eschew the Constitution, it only looks good on paper, I guess.

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