It would be interesting to see what this writer would do if it was a GOP president doing what he suggests Obama do
By claiming and using such powers he degrades democracy.
“Michael Waldman is President of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan law and policy institute that focuses on improving the systems of democracy and justice. Waldman is one of the nation’s most prominent public interest lawyers, and is an expert on the presidency, democracy and the Constitution. The Brennan Center is a leading legal voice on election law, Constitutional law, government reform and racial justice.”
To the Left, this guy is a moderate, with a towering intellect. Now, what can we do to combat his poison?
Well, seeing as how we are not a democracy, the question is a non sequiter.
Except when the lawless and exempt Hussein is in charge.
REPUBLIC...woot, Levin is on it!
I keep reminding my liberal friends what a field day the next Republican President is going to have with all of these new-found Executive powers, llike stopping gov-paid abortion, etc...
After a blank stare for a few moments, the ONLY response I ever get is that there won’t ever be another Republican President.
How about declare his policies illegal and repeal what he singed into law? And we are a constitutional republic, NOT a democracy.
The author is an ignoramus. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation only addressed slaves in states that were actively fighting against the Union.
He had no power, nor did he claim any such power, to abolish slavery across the board by using his pen and phone.
It took a Constitutional amendment to do that.
Certainly, having a monarchy that pays lip service to the old plan of a Republic worked for the Romans for quite a long time. I don't see that happening in the U.S., though. They couldn't have an armed population on the Italian side of the Rubicon. We already have one here.
Sentence himself, cabinet, and staff to Prison.
It sounds as though Mrs. Waldman’s little Mikey is a big fan of Barry’s Pen and Phone style “government.”
Michael Waldman is President of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan law and policy institute that focuses on improving the systems of democracy and justice. Waldman is one of the nation’s most prominent public interest lawyers, and is an expert on the presidency, democracy and the Constitution. The Brennan Center is a leading legal voice on election law, Constitutional law, government reform and racial justice. In 2012 it helped lead the successful effort to block laws that could have made it harder for 5 million eligible citizens to vote. The Boston Globe called the Center “indispensible.” Waldman has led the Center since 2005.
Mr. Waldman was Director of Speechwriting for President Bill Clinton from 1995-99, serving as Assistant to the President. He was responsible for writing or editing nearly 2,000 speeches, including four State of the Union and two Inaugural Addresses. He was Special Assistant to the President for Policy Coordination from 1993-95. As the top White House policy aide on campaign finance reform, he drafted the Clinton administration's public financing proposal.