“I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president,” President Donald Trump stated during his first term. Less than one month into his second administration, he is vigorously testing that bizarre assertion and rapidly making it our new reality.
The Trump campaign promised to upend our system of government, and by issuing directives aligned with those promises, the new Trump administration is pushing along multiple fronts to do just that. These actions set up cases that could provide the conservative-dominated Supreme Court an opportunity to codify what was once a fringe theory of presidential power.
