And even a solidly conservative Supreme Court would be hard-pressed to dismember the entire administrative bureaucracy, save for its functions that are exclusively executive in nature. Practically speaking, it just wouldn’t be feasible. Congress can’t do it all. It doesn’t have the capacity, the expertise, or the political willpower. It’s easier to shrug off work to an agency, which is politically accountable via the president because voters don’t fully understand that a vote for president is a vote for his top officials in federal agencies too—and those people aren’t even chosen until after
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