Trump tries a January coup -- again

The president wages war on the separation of powers

Conservative activist and amateur comedian Grover Norquist famously joked in a 2001 interview that he planned to spend the next 25 years making the federal government small enough to “drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” And here we are, with the Trump Administration moving this week to paralyze a wide swath of critical government pro…