Opinion | What I Learned When I Read 887 Pages of Project 2025 - The New York Times

And for all the book's rhetoric about the need to "dismantle the administrative state," it soon becomes clear that vanquishing the federal bureaucracy is not the document's animating ambition. There may be plenty worth jettisoning from the executive branch, but "Mandate for Leadership" is about capturing the administrative state, not unmaking it. The main conservative promise here is to wield the state as a tool for concentrating power and entrenching ideology… 

Ironically, in this worldview, the people's needs and desires can become circumscribed. In the book's foreword, Kevin D. Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, writes that the "pursuit of happiness" in the Declaration of Independence should be understood as the "pursuit of blessedness," that is, that "an individual must be free to live as his creator ordained — to flourish." The Constitution, he explains, "grants each of us the liberty to do not what we want, but what we ought." The book ties this argument to the philosophical and legal concept of "ordered liberty," in which individual rights are weighed against social stability...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/opinion/project-2025-trump-administration.html

Politicians may rail against the ‘deep state,’ but research shows federal workers are effective and committed, not subversive

Often, what they're referring to is what we, as scholars of the inner workings of democracy, call "the administrative state." At times, these critics use a label of collective distrust and disapproval for government workers that sounds more sinister: "the deep state."… 

Most of them are devoted civil servants. Across hundreds of interviews and surveys of people who have made their careers in government, what stands out most to us is their commitment to civic duty without regard to partisan politics.

https://theconversation.com/politicians-may-rail-against-the-deep-state-but-research-shows-federal-workers-are-effective-and-committed-not-subversive-225061

‘In a word, horrific’: Trump’s extreme anti-environment blueprint

"We are writing a battle plan, and we are marshaling our forces," Paul Dans, director of Project 2025, told E&E News last year. "Never before has the whole conservative movement banded together to systematically prepare to take power day one and deconstruct the administrative state."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/06/trump-climate-change-fossil-fuels-second-term

How Trump’s chaotic incompetence — and the ‘deconstruction’ of the ‘deep state’ — got us here – Raw Story

In February of 2017, in the very early days of the Trump administration, Steve Bannon, then the White House strategic adviser, appeared at the annual gathering of the Conservative Political Action Committee and described the new administration’s three “lines of thought.” The first had to do with sovereignty or “America First.” The second was what he called “economic nationalism” ( Trump’s trade war). And the third he called “the deconstruction of the administrative state.” ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/how-trumps-chaotic-incompetence-and-the-deconstruction-of-the-deep-state-got-us-here/

Nondelegation and the “Administrative State” (Opening Arguments podcast OA338)

Today’s episode takes a deep dive into the nondelegation doctrine in light of a recent Kavanuagh comment on a case… in which the Supreme Court didn’t even grant certiorari. Is Andrew panicking? (No.) Listen and find out why not!

We begin, however, with a brief Andrew Was Wrong on taxation that calls back to OA 336. How exactly is stock income taxed? Listen and find out!

Then, it’s time for the main segment, which is a deep dive into the “administrative state” and specificially the “nondelegation doctrine” at issue in U.S. v. Gundy. Why did this last week signal the beginning of the end for Andrew & Thomas? Listen and find out!

After all that, it’s time for a listener question/comment on LIHEAP that helps contextualize how this program works in low-income communities. You won’t wan’t to miss it!

Then, of course, it’s time for #T3BE — the answer to Thomas Takes the Bar Exam #155 about a tenant who takes possession of an apartment only to find the previous tenant still inside. How can.. the landlord win? Listen and find out!
Interview:
https://openargs.com/oa338-nondelegation-and-the-administrative-state/

Supreme Court Ready to Grant GOP’s Wish to ‘Roll Back the Administrative State’ - The Daily Beast

A case before the Supreme Court this week concerning a Vietnam vet could have enormous consequences for how the federal government regulates absolutely everything. ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/supreme-court-kisor-v-wilkie-case-could-wreck-administrative-state

Republicans Rail Against President Trump's Budget, Call for Even Larger Increases in Military Spending

President Donald Trump is determined to fulfill his campaign promise of shaking up Washington with his massively disruptive 2018 budget proposal. To hard-line conservatives in Congress, however, Trump’s “Hannibal Lecter” budget still doesn’t cut domestic spending or increase military spending enough.

“We wrote it using the president’s own words,” Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told MSNBC on Thursday morning as the budget was released. “We turned those policies into numbers.” A look at the budget, however, finds funding proposals more directly in line with White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon’s vow — to achieve the “deconstruction of the administrative state.”...
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/republicans-say-budget-dead-arrival

Trump faces 3 hard political truths

Trump is on shakier ground than it seems....
http://www.salon.com/2017/03/03/3-hard-political-truths-that-trump-is-facing_partner/

The Washington Post: Bannon vows a daily fight for ‘deconstruction of the administrative state’

Trump's chief strategist outlines nationalist agenda and says president will fulfill hard-line promises. ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-wh-strategist-vows-a-daily-fight-for-deconstruction-of-the-administrative-state/2017/02/23/03f6b8da-f9ea-11e6-bf01-d47f8cf9b643_story.html?utm_term=.f47c91dab376