Aziz Huq Discusses Breakdown of American Federalism in Project Syndicate Opinion Piece
How the Supreme Court Unleashed Trump’s War on the States
The Trump administration's militarization of US cities – apparently selected because of their partisan divergence from the White House – represents a failure of federalism, according to Aziz Huq in a Project Syndicate opinion piece.
"[T]he breakdown of American federalism flows from ... the effective collapse of the separation of powers," Huq writes. "Partisan-aligned majorities in Congress and on the Supreme Court have increasingly abdicated their constitutional responsibilities. While the unwillingness of legislators, mostly Republican, to oppose the administration, even when it acts plainly unlawfully or in profoundly harmful ways, is a familiar issue, the Supreme Court’s responsibility for the collapse of the separation of powers (and hence also federalism) is less well understood."
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