Corporations are people. So the SCOTUS says. And like people, they can be pardoned too, so Trump says.

A lot of people have a hard time wrapping their heads around the idea that since the federal government has always had some corruption, that Trump could have brought corruption to an entirely new level. So I thought it might help to give an individual example.

I didn't expect to need to post an update on this series already, but here we are.

This actually happened several days ago, but I didn't notice it until now.

The constitutional principles of separation of powers and a co-equal tripartite government are out of balance. The president has become too powerful. Congress has abrogated too much of its power to the executive branch. The president can unilaterally declare war and essentially allocate funding by edict (executive orders). Presidents can now ignore Supreme Court decisions with no consequence. It seems like each subsequent president grabs more power and then flaunts that power in the face of the people along with blatant in-your-face corruption, which now seems the norm.

This is the first of a 4-year long series.

As far as I am aware, there is only three federal government agencies that have no legally enforceable code of ethics: the presidency, the SCOTUS, and the Federal Reserve, In many ways the Pentagon is included, but not officially.