No one has explained to me how these czars have any power or where it comes from? I really don't get it. I'd think the framers had enough sense to avoid appointed offices who could wield power over the people so how can these czars do anything legally?
Technicalities like legality are mere gnats to Democrats - easily ignored.
They are advisers to the President. Their "requests"carry the weight of his authority. The people they work through, most of whom do have Senate confirmation, serve at the pleasure of the President. They are unlikely to go against the Czars "requests".
The Constitution, that old rag, says:
(The President) with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
The fig leaf, is that these Czars are "inferior officers", although I doubt Congress has specifically provided for each and every Czar. (a few Czars are Senate approved officers, but the vast majority are not), but rather they are "covered" under the rubric of "personal advisers".