Where Is Congress on the Kennedy Center Fight?

This week, in one of his habitually unhinged social media posts, President Trump outrageously threatened the federal courts that if they failed to reverse a lower-court ruling that he cannot etch his name on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, he will not allow the congressionally mandated $257 million renovation of the center to proceed. This was just a day after he lambasted the Supreme Court — targeting the three justices he appointed in his first term — for the Court’s sound refusal to greenlight his attempted pretextual use of the Postal Service to unilaterally regulate federal elections (a constitutional responsibility of Congress and the states, not the president).

Trump’s post asserted:

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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This week, in one of his habitually unhinged social media posts, President Trump outrageously threatened the federal courts that if they failed to reverse a lower-court ruling that he cannot etch his name on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, he will not allow the congressionally mandated $257 million renovation of the center to proceed. This was just a day after he lambasted the Supreme Court — targeting the three justices he appointed in his first term — for the Court’s sound refusal to greenlight his attempted pretextual use of the Postal Service to unilaterally regulate federal elections (a constitutional responsibility of Congress and the states, not the president).

Trump’s post asserted:

About the Author

Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.