Donald Trump is taking presidential power to alarming places, writes Jack Goldsmith
Congress won’t check his Napoleonic instincts. Will a solidly conservative Supreme Court?
“THEY HIT me and I hit them back harder and they disappear,” Donald Trump said in 2016, during his first presidential campaign, explaining an ethic developed in New York’s savage real-estate market. That ethic in a nutshell explains the early Trump administration’s torrent of attacks on the federal bureaucracy that Mr Trump believes, with some justification, sought to derail his first term.
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