Long lawless in foreign affairs, the imperial presidency is morphing into a lawless autocracy.
Democrats, I among them, screamed "presidential absolutism" when GW penned his signing statements, indicating his role as Decider extended to deciding what a law might really mean, what in it might be or not be law, and both how and whether to enforce it, in letter or in spirit, in whole or in part.
Obama has gone GW one better.
He skips the signing statements, and plays fast and loose with laws in place before he was.
Think DOMA.
Think immigration.
As for enforcing laws that don't exist, think gun law, environmental law, and the defunct Voting Rights Act.
The judicial dictatorship of runaway Supremes is at least excusable on a plea the constitution is rigged against democracy and very difficult to change - at least, if the faking favors what's popular.
Does it, generally?
Well, no.
But for well over half a century it has favored the liberal agenda.
And this novel, runaway presidency?
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