Washington’s response to President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency over immigration has been hypocrisy as usual—and a lot of what you’ve heard about the matter is wrong. For many years Congress has been handing over power to the president and the agencies of the administrative state. Lawmakers are delighted to do this, because it relieves them of the difficult decisions involved in creating actual legislation. Something...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 03, 2019 21:33 UTC