by jpitney | Jan 23, 2025 | Congress, Elections, House of Representatives, intelligence, Separation of Powers, Transparency, Volunteering
At The Hill, Don Wolfsenberger writes about Speaker Johnson’s decision to oust Mike Turner (R-OH) from the chair of the House Intelligence Committee: What is disturbing is the rumored source of the Speaker’s decision to drop Turner as chair. Turner told CBS News...
by jpitney | Aug 29, 2024 | Presidency, Separation of Powers
Gary J. Schmitt, “What the White House Says About the American Constitutional Order,” American Enterprise Institute, August 21, 2024. Key Points: The founders’ views about executive power and its place in a system of separated powers changed over...
by jpitney | Aug 26, 2024 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Constitution, Separation of Powers
Frederick M. Hess at AEI: Self-government depends on our accepting electoral outcomes or court decisions even when we disagree vehemently with the result. It depends on presidents and voters understanding that the executive branch isn’t empowered to spend billions of...
by jpitney | Feb 10, 2021 | Congress, Presidency, Separation of Powers
Nan Swift at R Street: Student loan debt is not something that can be solved by the simple wave of a wand or stroke of a pen. Rather, the complicated moral and economic considerations of cancelling student loan debt should be examined within the process of debate...
by jpitney | Oct 30, 2020 | Constitution, Federalism, Separation of Powers
James Wallner at R Street: Madison believed that the Critical Period events were a sign that America was falling into the destructive cycle that befell all previous experiments in self-government. The Greek historian, Polybius, called this phenomenon “the cycle of...
by jpitney | Sep 8, 2020 | Congress, Oversight, Presidency, Separation of Powers
Molly E. Reynolds at Lawfare: Often, proposals to increase Congress’s capacity to oversee the executive branch fall victim to partisanship, with members of the president’s party being reluctant to support reforms that limit his power. Importantly, however, several of...
