What is disturbing is the rumored source of the Speaker’s decision to drop Turner as chair. Turner told CBS News that he was fired over “concerns from Mar-a-Lago.” While Speaker Johnson and a Trump spokesman both denied that the then-president-elect directly demanded the change, various media reports ascribe the move to either Trump, directly or indirectly, or to a handful of Freedom Caucus members who had met with Trump shortly before Johnson’s announcement. The Freedom Caucus members thought the chairman was insufficiently loyal to Trump’s plans and too bipartisan.
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Our constitutional system of separated powers was built into the document to ensure no single branch of government would become so overbearing and dominant that it would reduce the other branches to empty shells. That will be a major challenge facing Congress in the days and months ahead.