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MIKE DAVIS: Reagan-appointed judge driven from bench by TDS is a wolf in wolf's clothing

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Fox News chief legal correspondent Shannon Bream reports on the comments Judge James Boasberg made about President Donald Trump at a federal judge gathering on ‘Special Report.’

In his iconic dissent in Morrison v. Olson (1988), the late, great Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia brilliantly articulated why the Independent Counsel Statute unconstitutionally intruded upon the executive branch. 

This dissent laid the groundwork for the Supreme Court’s current constitutionalist majority to restore sanity to separation-of-powers jurisprudence by returning power to its rightful place: the executive branch, all of whose power is vested in the president of the United States who is elected by all Americans.

Leftists and other anti-democratic big-government types call this view the "unitary executive theory." In reality, it is just Article II of the United States Constitution. We The People loan executive power to our duly-elected president; we do not divvy it up among unelected, leftist federal bureaucrats. 

Scalia’s most famous line in the Morrison dissent was his characterization of the statute as "a wolf in wolf’s clothing," a play on the idiom of "a wolf in sheep’s clothing." Scalia was illustrating how the violation of the separation of powers was unambiguous.

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Mark Wolf is a former federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. (Getty Images)

Former U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf of Massachusetts is another wolf in wolf’s clothing despite his effort — aided by the leftist media — to package himself otherwise. Wolf was appointed to the bench by President Reagan in 1985, but he is no judicial conservative. Wolf received the stamp of approval from the most leftist........

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