Trump and the Law of Presidential Power
Con Law of, 101
The Wall Street Journal has done a decent job on a YouTube video explaining Trump’s theory of constitutional presidential power.
That theory, like other theories that “liberals” dislike, is … well … rooted in the text of the U.S. Constitution.
Consider the following analogy:
A “liberal” mainline Protestant church hires, inadvertently, a biblically literate pastor/preacher who aims to bring the direction of the church into faithfulness with what the Bible itself teaches.
This results in an outcry, a crisis !
He’s distorting our ministry , our church !
It’s only a crisis if you didn’t understand what the Bible taught, or what the Bible says, or you did but had a policy mandating neglect of the ancient, authoritative text.
Said slightly different, for those who consider the Bible itself authoritative over ministry, the real crisis was what preceded the hiring of this Biblically faithful pastor, not the Biblically faithful pastor himself.
Trump is in a similar position in regards to the constitutional law of presidential power. His “theory” (said in Bill Barr’s intonation in the video, linked — pay close attention to what Barr says there and how he says it, for he is absolutely correct in both) is just what the Constitution actually says, and has always said before we decided to just ignore it and go our own way.
Luke, for Trp