How much power should a president have? Anyone
who thought America settled that question late in the 18th century
with the ratification of the Constitution hasn’t been paying
attention to the news.
The Speaker of the House, John Boehner, has hired law professor
Jonathan Turley to represent the House in a lawsuit over President
Obama’s unilateral changes to the health care law. Meanwhile,
Obama’s executive action to defer deportation of certain illegal
immigrants has generated opposition from Republican members of
Congress, including Senator Cruz of Texas, who talks about a
“lawless president.”
Into this fight wades Harvard law professor and former Obama
staffer Cass Sunstein, who, as Ira Stoll reports, says that the
only cure for partisanship and gridlock is to give the president
even more authority. Believe it or not, according to
Sunstein, “the best response…[is] strengthening the hand of
technocratic forces within government.”
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