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...sympathy for Sessions is in order: What is he to do? If dignity concerned him, he would resign; but if it did, he would not occupy a Drumpf--bestowed office from which to resign.
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Executive power expanded, with only occasional pauses (thank you, Presidents Taft and Coolidge, of blessed memory), throughout the 20th century and has surged in the 21st. After 2001, "The Decider" decided to start a preventive war and to countenance torture prohibited by treaty and statute. His successor had "a pen and a phone," an indifference to the Constitution's take care clause (the president "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed") and disdain for the separation of powers, for which he was repeatedly rebuked by the Supreme Court.
The whole column is full of win:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-something-the-nation-did-not-know-it-needed/2017/07/28/8dc09ae0-7302-11e7-9eac-d56bd5568db8_story.html?utm_term=.166bb6f4171e&wpisrc=nl_opinionsA&wpmm=1
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Hobbes
Doubletree Resident
(99.118.244.123) on 7/29/2017 - 11:34 a.m. says: ( 267 views
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George Will expresses my feelings about Sessions and my thoughts on executive expansion: Hobbes 7/29/2017 - 11:34 a.m.
