ACLU: Executive Branch Bureaucracy Exists to Check Chief Executive

Did you know that the Constitutional role of the federal bureaucracy is to prevent the elected President of the United States–the CHIEF Executive–from doing things that he was elected to do?

That is the legal opinion of the ACLU, which also argues that the First Amendment requires the censorship of Americans’ speech by the government and that sterilizing and mutilating pre-pubescent children is a human right. 

Bro, my favorite part of the checks and balances system that the Framers definitely wrote into the Constitution was bureaucratic branch. https://t.co/QiK7VtihFG

— Joe Cunningham (@JoePCunningham) February 13, 2025

Remember when the ACLU used to be frustratingly committed to protecting civil liberties, arguing that even when we don’t like the results, the government must abide by the Constitution. 

Don’t worry, they gave that idea up years ago. 

The ACLU has discovered a right that must exist in the “penumbra” of the Constitution but for some strange reason was never spelled out in the text of the Constitution: the right to perpetual employment for anybody hired by the federal government. They are very disturbed that President Trump might let go of the (around) 200,000 recently hired bureaucrats in their probationary period. 

Every single one of these people was hired by Biden, which protects their right to lifetime sinecures, especially by the Constitutional penumbra. 

The ACLU insists that the Civil Service is filled only with the best and the brightest nonpartisan individuals who just happen to contribute to Democrats at a rate around 95%. 

One of the keys to understanding the leftist mindset is to get through our heads that every time they say “democracy,” they mean “technocracy.” They see the massive, more than 2 million plus, federal employees as a separate and permanently staffed check on elections. This is why, despite Republican presidents and elected officials getting elected on promises of reductions in the size and scope of the federal government, nothing ever changes. 

That is precisely what the ACLU is arguing for here: invalidating the election results. They want the status quo ante, no matter what the American people say. 

Despite the talk of the “rule of law,” FBI executives plot “insurance policies” to ensure that elected Republicans are slandered if they get elected. Strategic (and illegal) leaks of classified and often concocted documents are put out there to favored journalists, bureaucrats defy executive orders, and “journalists” celebrate #resistance against elected officials. 

All in the name of protecting democracy. 

An anonymous senior administration official claimed to be part of a resistance inside President Donald Trump’s White House, thwarting parts of the President’s agenda, in a New York Times op-ed https://t.co/1GpsWk6L8p pic.twitter.com/abhbJFj6jW

— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) September 6, 2018

It seems to me that the plain text of the Constitution–not that any of these people care about the Constitution anymore–says something about the Chief Executive being in charge of the Executive Branch, not a permanent bureaucracy. 

Let’s see. How does it go?

The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.

That’s it. No talk about a civil service, a permanent bureaucracy, or lifetime jobs for federal employees. 

Seems pretty simple to me. But not the geniuses at the ACLU who long ago rejected the idea that the Constitution means anything at all.