“Regarding Chrysler and GM, the executive branch is exercising powers it does not have under any statute or constitutional provision…A bemused Paulson, who was present at the creation of Bailout Nation with TARP funds, said while still in office: ‘Even if you don’t have the authorities — and frankly I didn’t have the authorities for anything — if you take charge, people will follow.’…Constitutionalists are not amused.”

George Will, “More Judicial Activism, Please