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Trump does more consequential things in a day than most presidents do in a month, so we may need to measure his tenure in office in dog years. It must certainly seem like dog days for the left, which is lying prostrate on the ground much of the time, panting and out of breath, gnawing on a bare bone.
After ticking through a number of happy stories this week—the end of DEI at Berkeley; Greenpeace getting nicked for $667 million dollars, Columbia University capitulating to Trump—we get down to the week's new frontiers of lawfare. Is this moment a "constitutional crisis," as the left claims, or is it a long overdue moment of constitutional challenge, with the aim being the restoration of the proper dimensions and functions of our republic?
We march briskly through four aspects of the issue, including nationwide injunctions, oral orders from the bench, the autopen question for a president (Biden) who was on autopilot for four years, and Trump's retaliation against private law firms that allowed themselves to be adjuncts to the Democratic Party.
All this, and a discussion of what we think is the first-ever judicial opinion rendered by video, by Ninth Circuit Judge Lawrence Van Dyke, in a gun case.
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"Congress can easily fix this." Can Congress get 60 votes in the Senate for cloture so that such a bill can be voted on? That was been the problem in Trump's first term and it's the problem now. I don't think Democrats will allow that. Since the filibuster is too important a "bipartisan-forcing" mechanism, I think one of the ways to stop this is to require that cloture be declared when no one is left who is willing to stand up at the podium and debate the issue. Make them spend the hours it takes and the footsoreness it engenders to actually keep a filibuster going. Allowing the minority to refuse a cloture vote without there being ongoing debate has made passage in the Senate (except for budget reconciliation and judicial appointments) require 60 votes. So don't throw out the baby with the bathwater, but make it so debate has to be ongoing before cloture is declared.
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Which would require a change to Senate rules, which would no doubt require its own cloture process.
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I remember reading that the Constitution was meant for farmers to be able to read. This wannabe farmer reads what it says about the Executive and cannot understand is how any 1 of the 700 inferior Court judges can thwart the actions of the Chief Executive Officer because he/she got up on the Left side of the bed.
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This was just about the best comment made on the PERSONNEL CHANGES post at (the fading fast) Power Line blog.
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