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Amoral Fourth Branch of Government

The odds are growing that the American people will pay serious untold consequences for allowing the administrative state to become an uncontrolled, amoral (if not altogether venal), fourth branch of government. Thank Deus Ex Machina DJT for throwing the first spanner into the works eg. Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney Barrett. My guess is, hang on for the next few years.

PS. Yes, DJT was duped in his submissiveness to NIAID, but think what would have happened had had he held up his hand and said, "hey, this isn't right!" Things take a long time to play out... the return the court to constitutional interpretation from judicial activism will likely be seen as DJT's seminal, transformative accomplishment.