The nation, for those of us who are watching, is in the midst of yet another Olympian struggle between the advocates of a textualist interpretation of the constitution’s separated powers (to use a term favored by the late justice Antonin Scalia) and the re-emergent, manosphere-like notion of a muscular unitary presidency. The contest is not new, it’s been going on for more than two centuries, but today one version, the unitary presidency, is being championed by the president and the political right with great vigor and uncompromising determination.
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THE QUIET WAR: CHECKS, BALANCES AND SEPARATED…
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The nation, for those of us who are watching, is in the midst of yet another Olympian struggle between the advocates of a textualist interpretation of the constitution’s separated powers (to use a term favored by the late justice Antonin Scalia) and the re-emergent, manosphere-like notion of a muscular unitary presidency. The contest is not new, it’s been going on for more than two centuries, but today one version, the unitary presidency, is being championed by the president and the political right with great vigor and uncompromising determination.