Trump's Enabling Act of 2025
We are underreacting to arguably the most frightening proclamation to ever be issued from the White House. Please read and share with your network.
Recent events warranting your immediate attention have drawn awful parallels between contemporary American governance and historical patterns of democratic erosion which led to the worst calamity the world has ever seen.
Donald Trump's February 18 executive order on independent regulatory agencies "is his most blatant power grab" and presents troubling similarities to Nazi Germany's 1933 Enabling Act (Ermächtigungsgesetz).
These are my thoughts about its implications.
The order, titled "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies", fundamentally restructures the relationship between the executive branch and independent federal agencies. As legal scholar Peter M. Shane notes in the New York Times, this represents 'a power move over independent agencies, a structure of administration that Congress has used for various functions going back to the 1880s.' The order requires these agencies to submit regulations for White House review, grants the Office of Mana…
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