The president is able to power grab because there is no longer any checks and balances from the legislative branch or the mass media. The founders must be turning over in their graves since they had counted on the fact that the Senators would not want to relinquish their role to protect and preserve their Constitutional rights. Senator Lee cannot understand how the Democrats, during the State of Union Address, gave the President a standing ovation when he said he would bypass Congress to implement his policies. “If a Republican president said and did what President Obama has done I would be up in arms. I think most, if not all, Republicans in the Senate would call that president on it. I am stunned that not a single Democrat has come out publicly in opposition to what is happening. Although, I must say some have told me privately they think I am correct in calling this president out for the sake of the Constitution.”
Professor Foley blames the mass media and the some of the millennials who think the Constitution is just an old, archaic, outdated piece of paper. She regards the press as “being very complicit as they do the president’s bidding instead of being requestors of the truth. I am sure if this were a Republican president they would be playing that role very effectively. Those in agreement don’t care if there is a legal process and consider that what matters is the end result. This means we really don’t have a rule of law anymore.”