The Resistance In Action

For John, BLUF:  Didn't President Obama say elections have consequences.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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“Democrats’ #Resistance is creating a genuine constitutional crisis”

Posted by Professor William A. Jacobson, at Legal Insurrection, 12 December 2017.

Here is the lede plus four and a Tweet:

Georgetown Law Professor Randy Barnett had a tweet on December 5, 2017, that I’ve been meaning to write about.

It reflects a subject I, and others, have been focusing on since election night — the refusal of Democrats and #NeverTrump Republicans to accept the outcome of the election not just emotionally, but as to the transfer of power that continues to this day, over a year since the 2016 election.

Here is Prof. Barnett’s tweet, referencing the attempt by outgoing CFPB Director Richard Cordray preemptively to install Leandra English as Interim Director over the objections of the Trump administration.

The tweet references a separate tweet from law professor Josh Blackman about attempts of the CFPB bureaucracy to subvert the authority of Mick Mulvaney, the Interim Director appointed by Trump:

Democrats’ #Resistance is creating a genuine constitutional crisis in which governmental power is not allowed by them to be peacefully transferred after a lawful election.  The potential for escalation is very very dangerous.

I would have thought that the example of former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, with regard to judicial appointments, would have informed Democrats about the dangers of upsetting precedents.  Not even the Franklin Roosevelt Democratic Party reign lasted for ever.  Unless they turn the nation into a banana republic or a dictatorship there will always be a reversal of fortunes, with consequences.

We could go back to the old spoils system.  It might, in fact, be better.  Just harder on the incumbents.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff