As an old political science professor speaking to law-school oriented Federalist Society students, I had long offered a course labeled “The Real Constitution” to distinguish mine from the one taught in law schools. Recently, the title attracted two Federalist chapter leaders who revealed in their questioning to me just how challenging today’s law schools are for conservative students.
Their questions started with, “Do you believe that a sitting president should take aggressive action to curb the influence of Congress and the courts, or should he work within existing constitutional boundaries?” Apparently, those boundaries are ones set by today’s law professors and court justices, not the boundaries set by Andrew Jackson or Donald Trump.
The next question asked: “Should lower-level courts have the power to impose nationwide injunctions on national issues?” Well, no Constitutional or Congressional law…
