David French

The bad place would be greater executive authority over a more powerful executive branch.

Oh, sure.

Yeah.

The problem you have here is you have three branches of government, judiciary, executive, and legislative.

If you want to create an additional branch of independent sort of technocrats, how do you do that?

I mean, I think that that might be constitutional amendment territory where you sort of delegate –

You delegate some political functions over to independent, non-accountable technocratic bureaucracies or that have very, very, very limited democratic accountability.

The problem here, though, Tim, we are often conflating things.

This case was about one of the heads of the agency.

You know, part of electing a president is you're electing a person with hiring and firing power of cabinet agencies, of the top people in the executive branch.

The top people in the executive branch serve at the pleasure of the president.

But what Trump is doing is something different that wasn't at issue in this case.

So this case was about the top person, one of the top people.

But he's also firing people up and down the bureaucracy, including lots of people who have civil service protections.

And that's where you're getting into some of your scientists, for example.

But the problem is, even if you keep all those scientists, if the top person is Robert F. Kennedy and then his boss is Donald Trump,

you've got a load of problems.

Totally.

I mean, it's a big government.

It's a very big government.