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Mar 23, 2015 · Today is the fifth birthday for the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. As the intense political and legal battles continue over the health care program, here’s a look at the constitutional issues that have cropped up in the Supreme Court in recent years. President Obama signs the Affordable Care Act
Presidents Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln believed that the Constitution provided power to the executive in a national crisis to save the Union. Before the Civil War, President James...
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Feb 9, 2017 · So what exactly is a constitutional crisis? We should be clear about what does — and, more importantly, does not — merit this description. It’s possible to have a major political crisis even if...
- The Constitution Doesn’T Say What to do.The U.S. Constitution is brief and vague. (Compare it to a state constitution sometime.) This vagueness has one major advantage: It makes an 18th-c...
- The Constitution’S Meaning Is in question.Sometimes the Constitution’s attempt to address an issue is phrased in a way that could allow multiple interpretations, leaving experts disagreeing...
- The Constitution Tells Us What to Do, but It’S Not Politically feasible.This category of constitutional crisis can crop up when presidential elections produce contested and confusing results. In the 2000 presidential el...
- Institutions Themselves Fail.The Constitution’s system of checks and balances sets the various branches against each other for the laudable purpose of constraining tyranny. How...
Feb 19, 2016 · Senator Elizabeth Warren sees a threat to “both the Constitution and our democracy itself” in Senate Republicans’ refusal to consider replacing Justice Antonin Scalia before President Obama ...
Jan 5, 2012 · President Obama is creating a constitutional crisis with the four “recess appointments” he made yesterday, bypassing the authority of the U.S. Senate. His unconstitutional actions contradict centuries of precedent, as well as recent legal analysis by both the Clinton and Bush White House counsel’s . . .
Sep 17, 2022 · In some cases, these claims rely on falsehoods — about election fraud, Mr. Biden’s supposed “socialism,” Barack Obama’s birthplace, and more.
Sep 30, 2013 · If Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling, President Obama faces a constitutional crisis between unilaterally raising taxes or ignoring the debt ceiling, explains Henry Aaron.
