The Trump White House has taken its attempt to seize direct control over the entire executive branch to a new level and laid out a startling legal rationale for the move in a previously unreported email obtained by TPM.
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“Why have a confirmations process?” Stanford law professor Anne Joseph O’Connell told TPM. “We wouldn’t need a confirmations process–and that’s written into the Constitution.”