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RE: They were on TigerBoard?
Posted on: February 26, 2025 at 08:01:28 CT
BH O'bonga MU
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"There should be no “institutional resistance to Trump.” That’s not how the Constitution works. Article II places in “a President,” “the executive Power.” It does not give any institution, Joint Chief, U.S. attorney, or any other bureaucrat the authority to either exercise executive power or to thwart it. So too, then, Article II commands fealty to President Trump as the holder of “the executive Power.”
The very acknowledgement that there is an “institutional resistance to Trump” in the DOD, DOJ, FBI, and intelligence community then confirms the righteousness of the firings. But it does more: It proves those touting the need for “institutional resistance” and the supposed independence in the executive branch are the opponents to democracy.
After all, the only member of the executive branch elected — and elected “by the entire nation” at that — is President Trump, which is why the Founders vested “the” executive power in “a President.” Because the president cannot alone manage the executive branch, he “select[s] those who [are] to act for him under his direction in the execution of the laws.” However, as the Supreme Court has stressed, such unelected officials hold “legitimacy and accountability” only “through ‘a clear and effective chain of command’ down from the President, on whom all the people vote.”
Declaring then that executive officials should maintain an independence from, or act as a resistance to, the president, represents a perversion to our Constitution and democracy by demanding executive authority be wrested from the unitary executive and gifted instead “to a person who answers to no one and for whom no one voted.”
Said otherwise, “[o]ur Constitution was adopted to enable the people to govern themselves, through their elected leaders.” A majority of voters elected Donald Trump, and thus members of the executive branch seeking to undermine the president are actually undermining the Constitution. And those condemning President Trump’s firings of such resistance officials are not attacking the executive — they are attacking our democracy."
https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/24/institutional-resistance-to-trump-proves-the-lefts-disdain-for-democracy/
The very acknowledgement that there is an “institutional resistance to Trump” in the DOD, DOJ, FBI, and intelligence community then confirms the righteousness of the firings. But it does more: It proves those touting the need for “institutional resistance” and the supposed independence in the executive branch are the opponents to democracy.
After all, the only member of the executive branch elected — and elected “by the entire nation” at that — is President Trump, which is why the Founders vested “the” executive power in “a President.” Because the president cannot alone manage the executive branch, he “select[s] those who [are] to act for him under his direction in the execution of the laws.” However, as the Supreme Court has stressed, such unelected officials hold “legitimacy and accountability” only “through ‘a clear and effective chain of command’ down from the President, on whom all the people vote.”
Declaring then that executive officials should maintain an independence from, or act as a resistance to, the president, represents a perversion to our Constitution and democracy by demanding executive authority be wrested from the unitary executive and gifted instead “to a person who answers to no one and for whom no one voted.”
Said otherwise, “[o]ur Constitution was adopted to enable the people to govern themselves, through their elected leaders.” A majority of voters elected Donald Trump, and thus members of the executive branch seeking to undermine the president are actually undermining the Constitution. And those condemning President Trump’s firings of such resistance officials are not attacking the executive — they are attacking our democracy."
https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/24/institutional-resistance-to-trump-proves-the-lefts-disdain-for-democracy/
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RE: They were on TigerBoard? - BH O'bonga MU - 2/26 08:01:28