Congress
How the 17th Amendment Ruined the Senate
With the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill to repeal Obamacare flaming out, not even getting a vote, one might wonder whether it was a lousy bill or if something else were amiss. As the bill seemed like pretty decent legislation, its failure to get a vote may be due to...
Can the House Elect a Non-Member Speaker?
At Liberty Law Blog, Diana Schaub (Loyola Maryland, Political Science) says no: Dysfunction Is No Excuse for Misreading the Constitution. From the core of the argument: There is an inescapable logic to the setting forth of the Constitution’s sections which should...
Obamacare Decisions Undermine American Constitutional System
With the Supreme Court saving Obamacare’s hide yet again, what does its decision and the actions of the administration in implementing the law mean for Congress’s authority to write legislation? More fundamentally, what do they mean for the constitutional...