The issue is not whether the actions being taken by the Trump Administration are right or wrong—although there are many that are egregiously wrong and some that are long overdue—but whether the Executive Branch has the power to unilaterally override the Constitution. If we allow this imperial ...
If formal democratic procedures were followed, and legal-rational legitimacy could hardly be chal- lenged, the impact of denying the winners of a popular election the right to form government (as is arguably the case) raises significant question marks over the transparency of democratic institutions...