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It is a troubling thing that both Democrats and Republicans are increasingly willing to flout the Constitution and condone lawless behavior.
The Constitution isn’t a restaurant menuBy Hugh Hewitt
There is a deep divide in the United States, and it isn’t blue-red or liberal-conservative. It’s between those who believe in applying the law as it exists and those who think they have the right — through various government authorities — to ignore laws they don’t like.
“Rule of law” conservatives are a subset of the coalition that elected President Trump. They were concerned about the vacancy on the Supreme Court (and a hundred federal bench vacancies below it); executive orders and regulations that greatly overreached existing statutory authority; and the general idea — spreading like kudzu — that dulyenacted laws can be ignored by federal, state and local officials when inconvenient to the perceived “will of the people.”
They were concerned, in other words, about preserving constitutional government.
Sanctuary cities and marijuana legalization statutes are examples of local and state governments ignoring federal law. But federal authorities and elected officials who vent about those subjects should look to their own disregard of the law. Two recent instances of the lawlessness of Beltway elites concern the U.S.-Mexico border barrier and the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im). . . .
The Constitution isn’t a restaurant menuBy Hugh Hewitt
There is a deep divide in the United States, and it isn’t blue-red or liberal-conservative. It’s between those who believe in applying the law as it exists and those who think they have the right — through various government authorities — to ignore laws they don’t like.
“Rule of law” conservatives are a subset of the coalition that elected President Trump. They were concerned about the vacancy on the Supreme Court (and a hundred federal bench vacancies below it); executive orders and regulations that greatly overreached existing statutory authority; and the general idea — spreading like kudzu — that dulyenacted laws can be ignored by federal, state and local officials when inconvenient to the perceived “will of the people.”
They were concerned, in other words, about preserving constitutional government.
Sanctuary cities and marijuana legalization statutes are examples of local and state governments ignoring federal law. But federal authorities and elected officials who vent about those subjects should look to their own disregard of the law. Two recent instances of the lawlessness of Beltway elites concern the U.S.-Mexico border barrier and the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im). . . .