Philip Wallach
@PhilipWallach
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Resident Scholar, @AEI. Studying America's separation of powers. Formerly @RSI, @BrookingsInst. Out May 2023: Why Congress, https://t.co/NbK86BtcWv
Washington, DC
Joined February 2011
I'm very excited to announce the publication of my new book, Why Congress, this month! Amazon: Book website:
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Wow, if I had to invent a single tweet to show how legislators have come to devalue their own institution and its strengths, it would hard to beat this one.
Dear Speaker Johnson, Simply pass every executive order President Trump has signed, and you will go down as the greatest Speaker in American history.
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Pretty remarkable: after finishing his career as an NFL cornerback, Turner went to work as a congressional staffer in Rep. Duncan Hunter's office.
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Congress has seemed MIA over much of this wild last week. But I'm not writing off the institution quite yet. Institutional pride is withered but not entirely dried up. Some legislators (including in the GOP) will fight for their power of the purse.
The Senate’s top appropriator thinks Elon Musk has gone too far.
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@jawillick All the same, my point is that the take care clause ought to be top of mind right now; the White House can declare itself the champion of the public interest and say that the laws are deranged, and yet it's still oath-bound to take care that those laws are faithfully executed.
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@LPDonovan Earnest question: what form will the "operative debate" actually take? In what fora will it occur? Clearly nobody thinks it will be the Budget Committees, and, OK, fine. Is it basically people backchanneling their demands through Johnson/Thune? Ways & Means, Finance important?
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@jawillick Congress has sometimes given presidents broad reorganization authority--but not right now. Good Paul Larkin piece on this:
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Link recommended, S__st--- recommended.
1/ In light of the possibility of a “radical constitutionalism” from the right that defies judicial precedents and possibly judicial judgments, I am wondering how my progressive friends who have been pushing in recent years against “constitutionalism,” against judicial review, against judicial supremacy, and in favor of presidential over judicial constitutional interpretation, and of political constitutionalism, and the like, are thinking about the apparent development of these ideas by the Trump administration.
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No, I don’t buy it. Twitter is one medium of communication. They are using it for what they think are Twitter purposes. Presumably they are also using other methods of communication that you can’t quote tweet. There is definitely lots of legislative self-abnegation going on, but this isn’t the way to try to track it.
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RT @PhilipWallach: @MattGlassman312 NB: even if INS v. Chadha remains the law of the land (and it will), Congress has plenty of options to…
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@WillieYeatman Stick with that presumption. The question is how & in what contexts it can be a useful tool for you. A calculator isn't intelligent! Google isn't intelligent! They're still tremendous tools!
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@MattGlassman312 NB: even if INS v. Chadha remains the law of the land (and it will), Congress has plenty of options to build veto-like mechanisms that will pass constitutional muster. On the tariffs in particular, @PatToomey @MarkWarner & others were on the right track
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@AriSchulman I'm being carried along by your posts, they're very persuasive, but calm down, 10 miles is a lot... There's a lot of sky.
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