NAPOLITANO: Congress’ unconscionable silence at president’s power grabs | Draft Judge Andrew Napolitano for President

NAPOLITANO: Congress’ unconscionable silence at president’s power grabs | Draft Judge Andrew Napolitano for President

NAPOLITANO: CONGRESS’ UNCONSCIONABLE SILENCE AT PRESIDENT’S POWER GRABS

Thu, Feb 20, 2014 | Judge Andrew Napolitano | The Washington Times

The political philosopher Edmund Burke once remarked that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good folks to do nothing.

A glaring example of the impending triumph of a constitutional evil that could be stopped by folks who have been largely silent is the tyranny coming from the White House. The folks who can stop this and are doing nothing about it are our elected representatives in Congress.

The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. It established the three branches of government, and it delegated “all legislative powers” to Congress.

American law rarely uses the word “all.” Yet the Framers chose that word precisely to confine the writing of law to Congress and to prevent a president from altering federal law by the selective manner of law enforcement and thereby effectively rewriting it.

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