This week, CNN and the Wall Street Journal both reported that President Trump is preparing an executive order to dismantle the federal Department of Education. Whether he signs an order or not (White House Press Secretary Karolina Leavitt accurately denied that it would happen on Thursday) such a dismantlement would need an act of Congress. Oops!

Federal departments are created by Congress and can only be eliminated or substantively modified by Congress. It applies to the first, the Department of Foreign Affairs (later renamed the State Department), signed into law by President George Washington on July 27, 1789, when the U.S. Capitol was downtown Manhattan. And it applies to the Department of Education, signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on Oct. 17, 1979. But Trump seems........

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