Checks and balances have not worked in the way the framers envisioned.
Congress
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The Verizon Data Order and Why It Matters
Creating “national security” exemptions to the Fourth Amendment in the context of an open-ended conflict where the whole world is the battlefield and the conflict has no clear end point is very dangerous.
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Is the GOP’s Tragedy of the Commons Problem Undoing Immigration Reform?
Republicans are starting to defect, because their individual interests and the party’s interests are diverging.
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Once Upon a Time, There Was a President …
The president’s job requirements aren’t laid out very well in the Constitution. The position is mostly an empty shell filled up with 44 presidencies worth of precedents.
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Republicans Mad that President They Despise, Obstruct, and Lie About Doesn’t Call More Often
There’s just no pleasing some people.
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Let’s Talk about Tax Reform
Yes, the IRS scandal has nothing to do with the kind of reforms Republicans say they want. But why not start the process?
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Why Republicans Can’t Destroy Obama
All they have is their anger, when what they need is a competent effort to undo the presidency.
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Regular Order, Meet Schadenfreude
Republicans in the Senate have taken a few hasty steps back from calls for normal procedure now that Democrats have assembled a budget.
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Michele, Our Belle
Saying farewell to the representative culture critics and comedians loved and progressives watched in horror
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Republicans Looking Sheepish On Obama Court Nominees
They’re hoping they can obstruct quietly, without drawing too much attention.
