Judge Kavanaugh has thus taken an instrument that is aimed at checking concentrated power--that is, the separation of powers--and turned it into an instrument calibrated to increase the power of the already most powerful person in the Government.
Durbin accuses Kavanaugh of undermining the separation of powers.
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