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This time, however, the White House seems to be ignoring the nuclear terrorism coordinator requirement not for constitutional reasons but simply because the administration thinks it is a bad idea. It is a stance some legal scholars called an even more blatant disregard of the checks and balances on presidential power.

Bush fails to appoint a nuclear terror czar - The Boston Globe

What “checks and balances”? I think these legal scholars are missing the fact that simply saying a thing exists does not, at least in this reality, make it so. If the executive branch chooses to ignore the checks and balances, as though they do not exist, then what is the benefit of these legal scholars’ saying that the checks and balances do, in fact, exist?

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