Andy Kroll

How do you make the legislative process more influenced by a Judeo-Christian worldview?

To go by his own words, that would mean that things like same-sex marriage are not compatible with that Judeo-Christian worldview and shouldn't exist.

Abortion rights, in any form, not compatible with that Judeo-Christian worldview value system.

is how he's put it.

He uses this term actual truth.

I think it's a kind of a biblical truth notion when he talks about how do we more integrate this specific Judeo-Christian value system with the functioning of our American government.

It's a longer term idea, obviously, but it's something that I think is really central to his own worldview.

He means that the president has dramatically more powers than presidents have traditionally used, that the executive branch has far greater authority to exert the president's will and to freeze or block the work of Congress than

And that these independent agencies that have for so long operated without presidential or political interference should, in fact, be very much under the control at the direction of the White House.

That, in his view, is what the founders intended.

Hence the name radical constitutionalist.

That, of course, is not what many legal scholars in many administrations before this one have believed and how they have acted.

The feeling that working for the federal government, that public service is not a safe and stable way to create a career, to be part of this larger American project, I think is a really...

a really major consequence, an impact of what he's done.

I think he has pushed the legal bounds of what the president can do to exert his will, talking about the funding freezes, talking about checking Congress's power of the purse, using the executive branch to choke off funding or redirect it to other places that are more in line with the president's agenda.

Ultimately, I think the biggest consequences of votes actions are going to play out in front of the United States Supreme Court.

So many of the changes, the policies, the executive powers that vote has exercised in just this year alone are likely going to end up in legal battles before the conservative supermajority in the Supreme Court.

How the high court rules in those cases is

could lead to quite a radically different looking executive branch and even a dramatic set of changes to how we understand our three-part democratic government working.

It's a real pleasure.