Trump’s Tests Aren’t Breaking Our System: Noah Feldman

The Trump administration is subjecting the US constitutional system to a stress test. We’re on the treadmill, with instruments recording everything that’s happening.

Nearly every day since taking office, Trump has done something unlawful that makes the treadmill go a little faster. He has purported to ban birthright citizenship; fired 17inspectors general; briefly frozen federal spending; and most recently, taken steps to shutter the US Agency for International Development.That’s not counting the tariffs imposed on Mexico, Canada and China, which would probably-but-not-definitely be upheld by the courts as a lawful exercise of power delegated by Congress.

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