Stephen Miller

Since there’s a lot of new (and wrong) commentary on DOJ reform let’s get to the heart of it: the Department of Justice is NOT an independent agency. The recent practice and tradition of regarding it as such would have horrified our Founders. It has shielded DOJ from all democratic accountability, placing the most fearsome powers of government in the hands of an unelected security state and deep state.

Article II is unequivocal that all executive power is placed in the hands of the executive (the President), the one office elected by the whole American people.

It is constitutionally impermissible, and deeply antidemocratic, to wall off the law enforcement power from the nation’s Chief law enforcement official and only elected governing authority in the executive branch (the POTUS).

Every bit of power removed from a president and transferred to a deep state is power transferred away from the American voter and to a permanent life-tenured bureaucracy shielded from all accountability.

This arrangement is desirable for the New Left, as they know a weaponized, partisanized deep state will persecute their political opposition with unrestrained glee.

But the only way to reform DOJ, and to restore justice to America, is to reassert the unitary executive and a true rendering of Article II under a reformist, nationalist, populist Administration.

11:29 AM · Jun 15, 2023

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