In the modern fire hose news delivery environment, it seems like ages ago that we penned the following – but it was actually just on February 28:

“One of the endlessly many incorrect DC tropes is: A President is entitled to his nominees.

“He is absolutely not so uniformly entitled.  Not if his nominees are in open defiance of the Constitution and our laws.  Bureaucrats can’t eviscerate the system just because their boss won an election.  Neither can their boss, for that matter.  Darn that pesky Oath of Office.”

This remains true.  As constitutionally-based stipulations always do.

You aren’t supposed to be quite obviously at odds with our founding document – and get sworn in to a government gig anyway. (more…)