Senate Republicans are precipitating a constitutional crisis. Article II, Section 3 requires the president to “take care that the laws are faithfully executed.” As former Supreme Court Chief Justice William Howard Taft wrote, “the President alone and unaided could not execute the laws. He must execute them by the assistance […] Read more »
Congress Has Changed, Not for the Better, and Now It Needs Changing
Today’s column will be my last in Roll Call. … For this column occasion, I thought back to how Congress has changed over the years since I first wrote for this paper. Both parties have changed; Democrats have grown less heterogeneous as the contingent of Blue Dogs has declined. Yet […] Read more »