Between the reaction to the court orders to the directives to government agencies, the Trump administration is stressing the system of checks and balances.

Appetizer

Prosecutors quit, More unpredictable climate patterns, OpenAI is not for sale, White House correspondents, Baby new yorker

Main course

• Executive Branch Reorganization Authority
• Marbury vs Maddison
• Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company v. Sawyer
• Funding freeze lawsuit
• NIH lawsuit
• Nixon and Congress

Sweet treat

• Reigning over a Hellish Bureaucracy
• Papers for the underworld bureaucracy
• Chinese death rituals

Tip your waiter

• Jonathan the tortoise

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