Opinion: There’s a brewing constitutional crisis, and it is the Elizabeth Warren surge in the Democratic primaries
There’s a brewing constitutional crisis, and it is the Elizabeth Warren surge in the Democratic primaries.
The problem was mingling personal political priorities with actions in his official capacity, a symptom of one of the worst aspects of Trump’s presidency, namely his inability or willingness to distinguish between himself and his office.
The philosophical and political line from Woodrow Wilson — the foundational progressive political leader and thinker who scorned what he considered the inefficiency of our traditional constitutional system — to Warren is direct and unbroken. As conservative writer David French points out, her proposed executive order prohibiting fracking obviously runs afoul of a 2005 federal law protecting it from federal regulation. She is promising to do something illegal, pure and simple.
To their credit, a couple of CNN panelists pressed her in July on the constitutional basis of her wealth tax, and she just waved them off. Her answer came down to the assertion that if a majority supports the tax, it should pass muster. Needless to say, the op-ed pages and airwaves weren’t thick with denunciations of her casual dismissal of the Constitution.
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