After President Obama’s attempts to rule by “pen and phone,” President Donald Trump will face a profound question. This mode of government is called “administrative power,” and it makes a mockery of the Constitution and of the ideal of representative government. Many lawyers assume that, to reverse Obama-era policies, President Trump will have to use the same unlawful mechanisms as his predecessor. But if he goes beyond policy reversals and actually dismantles the mechanisms of administrative power, his presidency will be transformative. If President Trump fails to do this, administrative power will remain a profound threat to civil liberties and a stultifying burden on the lives of all Americans.

Source: Fox News November 21, 2016 20:41 UTC