#Trump loyalist pushes ‘#postConstitutional’ vision for 2nd term
#RussVought is laying the groundwork for a broad expansion of #PresidentialPowers.
A DC bureaucrat & self-described #ChristianNationalist is drawing up detailed plans for a sweeping expansion of presidential #power in a 2nd Trump admin. Vought who served as Trump’s budget chief calls his #political strategy for razing long-standing #guardrails “#radical constitutionalism.”
#law #constitution
https://wapo.st/3yXcDpW
#RussVought has helped craft proposals for Trump to deploy the #military to quash #CivilUnrest, seize more #control over the #DOJ & assert the power to withhold congressional appropriations —& that’s just on Trump’s 1st day…
Since #Trump left office, Vought has led the Center for Renewing America, part of a network of #conservative advocacy groups staffed by fmr & potentially future Trump admin ofcls.
#PresidentialPowers #postConstitutional #law #ConstitutionalLaw #authoritarianism #democracy
