Column: Trump's worst Cabinet picks aren't just unqualified, they're part of a bigger power grab

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : And if the Congress doesn't recess, Trump may have another norm-shattering gambit in reserve.
43% : They will help determine whether Trump can undo the checks and balances the founders wrote into the Constitution, and turn the executive branch into an instrument of a would-be autocrat's will.
40% : "During his first term, Trump often expressed frustration at the legal and political limits on what he could do as president.
40% : And, of course, Trump warned the Senate last week that if it refuses to confirm any of his Cabinet nominees, he may put them in office anyway -- by using "recess appointments," which allow a president to fill top jobs when Congress isn't in session.
37% : "Trump has also proposed weakening Congress' power to direct federal spending -- one of the legislative branch's core functions.
35% : A 1974 law made impoundment illegal, but Trump has suggested that he will ignore the prohibition and challenge it in court.
23% : Trump has encouraged him to "go wild.
13% : Trump "is going to hit the Department of Justice with a blowtorch -- and that torch is Matt Gaetz," former Trump aide Stephen K. Bannon said last week.
8% : Trump also denounced the CIA and other intelligence agencies for their finding that Russia interfered in the 2016 election campaign to help him defeat Clinton -- a judgment he seemed to consider partisan, rather than based on the evidence.

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