Obama, Bush, emergencies, and executive power.

Here you can find some thoughts on the emerging evidence of the Obama administration’s position on executive power (written with Curt Bradley). And below a bloggingheads segment with Jack Balkin (I am the barely sentient one of the two speakers, not yet recovered from a vacation). Do emergencies help presidents or hurt them? I say they hurt them. FDR was an exceptional case. The Caesar/Cromwell theory that presidents use emergencies to become dictators

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