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  Let me be clear that I am as relieved as most of the country who turned out to vote Donald Trump out of office, and while I am not a dyed-in-the-wool fanboy of Joe Biden, he does have my utmost respect and I certainly wish him and Kamala Harris the very best. This comes with all the feet to the fire that our elected leaders need to be held by. That there will be a lot of work to be done (and I have a wish list to that I will get to), we can celebrate that not only is the most toxic president this nation has seen been voted out by the people and the Electoral College, we will also lose his attorney general who was surely hopeful that Donald Trump would be his guinea pig to try out the ‘unitary executive’ theory that many on the right believe is foreordained. To be sure, the theory is not a monolithic structure; there is a spectrum along which the powers of the executive office are weak or strong. The support for the theory largely springs from Article II of the Constitution. ...