The Barr Memo and the Imperial Presidency / JANUARY 17, 2019
William Barr is living out every belief he's ever had of dismanteling the US Constitution & installing a Unitary Executive Priviledge to the Imperial Presidency.
Barr & Trump are both playing off the insanity of each other.
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https://www.acslaw.org/expertforum/the-barr-memo-and-the-imperial-presidency/
The Barr Memo and the Imperial Presidency
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“Constitutionally, it is wrong to conceive of the President as simply the highest officer within the Executive branch hierarchy. He alone is the Executive branch.”[1]
The conception of presidential power embraced in the Barr Memo goes well beyond the ordinary unitary executive claims. I have taken to calling it the imperial executive, in part because no Attorney General has ever come so close to accepting Louis XIV’s motto, “L’etat c’est moi.” This theory revives the view of executive power that launched a thousand signing statements, generated the torture memo, and justified warrantless domestic surveillance in spite of the legal prohibitions in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It is impossible to conceive of all the damage this theory will do in the hands of the Trump Administration, and a full catalog would require a book length post. I would, nonetheless, like to highlight a few implications that strike me as immediately obvious.
The independent agencies are unconstitutional.
William Barr’s view of presidential power would hold independent agencies unconstitutional, overturning nearly a century of Supreme Court precedent and upending dozens of regulatory agencies
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"The unitary executive theory is a theory of United States constitutional law which holds that the President of the United States possesses the power to control the entire executive branch."
I believe Nixon attempted to install an Imperial Presidency also.
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