Trump’s attempt to remove a National Labor Relations Board member “was a blatant violation of the law,” a federal judge in the District of Columbia wrote.

One of the things that the Constitution was intended to accomplish was not to have a monarchy, but was intended to have instead a democracy, where the Congress would set the institutional arrangements,

The ruling, which the Trump administration immediately moved to appeal, was a rebuke of Mr. Trump’s expansive view of executive power.

The attempt to take over the District of Columbia is of a piece with the attacks on federal workers and the effort to create a personalist dictatorship.

The Trump Administration said it is canceling $400 million of federal grants and contracts to Columbia University, citing civil rights complaints against the Ivy League school by Jewish students.