If you want a sobering Monday read, check out what conservative legal scholars are saying about Donald Trump and his ability to appropriately administer executive branch powers. After a week in which Trump questioned the ethics of both Mexican and Muslim judges for no other reason than their race/religion, even conservative scholars are at their wit's end at the prospect of a Trump presidency. Adam Liptak reports:
David Post, a retired law professor who now writes for the Volokh Conspiracy, a conservative-leaning law blog, said those comments had crossed a line.
“This is how authoritarianism starts, with a president who does not respect the judiciary,” Mr. Post said. [...] “The president has all the power with respect to enforcing the law,” he said. “There’s only one of those three branches that actually has the guns in its hands, and that’s the executive.” [...]
Randy E. Barnett, a law professor at Georgetown and an architect of the first major challenge to President Obama’s health care law, said he had grave doubts on both fronts.
“You would like a president with some idea about constitutional limits on presidential powers, on congressional powers, on federal powers,” Professor Barnett said, “and I doubt he has any awareness of such limits.”
It's so bad, some are even admitting Trump would be worse than President Obama—and that's saying something, given that they've been crying "executive overreach" since the day Obama first set foot in the Oval Office.
http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/pIF5uI79Jng/-Even-conservative-scholars-fret-about-the-rule-of-law-under-President-Trump
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