On April 13th (Thomas Jefferson’s birthday) President Trump said the following:

“When somebody is president of the United States the authority is total.  It’s total. It’s total.”

“We’re going to write up  papers on this.”

Fortunately, a paper was already written on this.

James Madison, Federalist Paper #46: “But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm. Every government would espouse the common cause. A correspondence would be opened. Plans of resistance would be concerted. One spirit would animate and conduct the whole….  But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity?”