Con­ser­v­a­tive com­men­ta­tor Steve For­man is out­raged! What stirred him up enough to write:

This is noth­ing more than a pow­er grab by the exec­u­tive branch. Any­one who sup­ports sep­a­ra­tion of pow­ers should oppose this.

Is it the Pres­i­dent assert­ing that he does­n’t have to accept Con­gress’s deci­sion to put min­i­mum stan­dards for a FEMA direc­tor? Or the White House insist­ing that courts can’t rule on its war­rant­less sur­veil­lance of Amer­i­can cit­i­zens? Con­gress strip­ping peo­ple of the right to habeas cor­pus?

No, For­man is OK with all of that. The prob­lem is sug­gest­ing that Kansas’ edu­ca­tion sys­tem ought to be run by an appoint­ed spe­cial­ist con­firmed by the leg­is­la­ture rather than an elect­ed Board with no statewide influence.