In recent years, we’ve suffered an intolerable expansion of the federal administrative state, ruled by unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats staffing them.
Barack Obama illustrated the mentality behind that expansion in 2014, when he claimed authority to impose his agenda via “pen and phone” in disregard of our pesky democratic process:
I’ve got a pen, and I’ve got a phone. And I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.
Our Founding Fathers, however, didn’t create a constitution entitling one all-powerful executive to rule whenever he felt the urge to “move the ball forward.” Indeed, our Declaration of Independence specifically lists that among the Founders’ grievances against the king:
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance…For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever…
Heedless of those legal and constitutional constraints, the Biden Administration has simply picked up where the Obama Administration left off.
For example, Biden has attempted to shift the cost of $400 billion in student loans from borrowers who actually agreed to repay them to the backs of taxpayers. His administration has also illegally attempted to unilaterally rewrite our nation’s immigration laws, prohibit landlords across the nation from evicting...
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