People significantly underestimate the degree to which the American constitution is now being defined by Nixon/Reagan/Bush government lawyers who disliked having to be responsive to a Democratic-controlled Congress.
Unitary executive theory is an example:
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Roberts, Alito and Thomas all cut their teeth in a Reagan administration eager to expand the outer limits of executive power. Kavanaugh did the same under George W. Bush who tried to make the unitary executive a reality.
It seems like there is broad awareness of the decision redefining the constitution and relationship of the president to the people, but seeing this line of influence, the long arc of focus and vengeance by the powerful, is so important since this is about far more than Trump.
