The most powerful branch of government should not go running to the weakest branch when its powers are usurped by a lawless executive; rather, it should respect doctrines of standing, not try to transform the Court into a resolver of political controversies in the absence of proper cases, and use its own powers to defend its turf.
National Review, June 28, 2014President Obama’s position is that the desire to push policies that are political losers justifies taking the law into one’s own hands.
The Weekly Standard, July 2, 2014A desire to advance policies that are political losers doesn’t justify violating the constitutional separation of powers.
The Weekly Standard, June 13, 2014President Obama’s own administration isn’t abiding by his signature legislation.
The Weekly Standard, April 24, 2014Not everyone who supports President Obama’s particular policy ends is cheering his unprecedentedly lawless means.
Los Angeles Times, March 9, 2014The bigger our government gets, the less it engages in the sort of transparent deliberation and debate that is the hallmark of representative democracy.
The National Interest, March 5, 2014
It’s time for Congress to show political courage and defend the constitutional separation of powers—by partially defunding the IRS, the agency that’s at the center of Obama’s lawlessness.
The Weekly Standard, March 10, 2014What would Tocqueville think of the IRS’s censorship of civil associations?
Washington Examiner, February 26, 2014
A prominent left-leaning scholar says this president’s “aggregation of power” is “destabilizing,” “wrong,” and “dangerous”—and he respectfully calls upon an “inert,” “feckless” Congress to “assert its powers” and rein in what Madison (in Federalist 51) called a “weaker department.”
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Having repeatedly violated the Constitution's separation of powers, the Obama administration takes aim at the First Amendment.
Washington Examiner, February 20, 2014
The launch of myRA is just the latest example of President Obama’s seeming indifference to the separation of powers, as he increasingly acts as if Congress isn’t the only lawmaking entity in Washington.
The Weekly Standard, January 31, 2014Renowned left-leaning legal scholar Jonathan Turley warns the House Judiciary Committee that Obama’s imperial presidency poses a severe danger to the constitutional separation of powers.
Real Clear Politics, December 4, 2013
In weakening the filibuster through a partisan vote, Harry Reid and company blithely disregarded the rules of the Senate, taking cues from a president who cavalierly disregards the laws of the land.
National Review, November 28, 2013
Under the Obama administration, political expediency trumps the rule of law.
The Weekly Standard, November 15, 2013What gives President Obama the authority to circumvent Congress and change his centerpiece legislation unilaterally?
National Review, November 14, 2013