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How To Want An All-Powerful President And A Weak Executive Branch…At The Same Time

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March 4, 2022 1:18 p.m.

As conservatives come close to achieving their decades-long dream of a paralyzed Congress and weakened administrative state imbuing the right-wing Supreme Court with enormous power, there seems to be a contradiction with another tenet of their governmental philosophy. 

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