“Democracy has prevailed,” declared President Biden in his Inaugural Address.

He spoke of this “winter of peril and significant possibilities…We face an attack on democracy and truth.”

“In each of these moments” of peril during our history, the President continued, “enough of us have come together.”

There is great symbolism in the Inauguration taking place at the Capitol, instead of the White House.

This is where the President will return to ask that the Congress pass laws, provided “enough of us have come together.”

A majority on Capitol Hill for the Biden administration’s legislation will be fostered if there is a majority of the public as well.

Unlike the executive orders signed this afternoon, laws passed by the Congress cannot be undone by the signature of a new President.

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The midnight judges appointed by President John Adams were the subject of the Supreme Court decision establishing judicial review of the constitutionality of actions taken by the executive and legislative branches.

Now there are the midnight pardons of President Trump.