The administration wants to do what it chooses without checks upon its powers. That is a dictatorship, not a constitutional democracy. Photo from the White House, Facebook The Trump administration ...
The Framers established the requirement for Senate advice and consent to presidential nominations to safeguard democracy from a “despotic” president. As the Supreme Court explained in Freytag v.
The right loves to argue we’re a republic, not a democracy. What’s the difference? THOMAS P. COSTELLO/USA TODAY NETWORK THOMAS P. COSTELLO/USA TODAY NETWORK / USA TODAY NETWORK If you hang around with ...
Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. The administration wants to do what it chooses without checks upon its powers. That is ...
They hate it when you do that. The latest example was earlier this week, when we ran a column on our website from our sister paper, The Sacramento Bee, titled: “Donald Trump’s first 100 days back in ...