*This is the sixteenth and final post in a symposium on Peter Shane’s “Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency.” For other posts in the series, click here. In Part 1 of my response to the wonderful set of fourteen essays commenting on my book, Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the […]
*This is the fifteenth post in a symposium on Peter Shane’s “Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency.” For other posts in the series, click here. My first reaction to the just-ended three-week symposium on my book, Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency […]
*This is the fourteenth post in a symposium on Peter Shane’s “Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency.” For other posts in the series, click here. Democracy’s Chief Executive has the great virtue of being right. Peter Shane offers a full throated defense of a democratic, pluralistic presidency as an […]
*This is the thirteenth post in a symposium on Peter Shane’s “Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency.” For other posts in the series, click here. In Democracy’s Chief Executive, Professor Peter Shane evocatively illustrates the prevalence and nuances of presidential “entitlement.” Shane employs stimulating historical and political narrative to […]
*This is the twelfth post in a symposium on Peter Shane’s “Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency.” For other posts in the series, click here. Peter Shane’s Democracy’s Chief Executive is a formidable challenge to much conventional wisdom about presidential power – particularly, but not exclusively, on the right. […]
*This is the eleventh post in a symposium on Peter Shane’s “Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency.” For other posts in the series, click here. A critical passage in Peter Shane’s wide-ranging and bracing new book comes late in its pages, in an analysis of the debate among scholars […]
*This is the tenth post in a symposium on Peter Shane’s “Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency.” For other posts in the series, click here. Peter Shane is one of today’s most thoughtful commentators on separation of powers and the presidency. In numerous articles and two terrific books—Madison’s Nightmare […]
*This is the ninth post in a symposium on Peter Shane’s “Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency.” For other posts in the series, click here. Put one good thing down for the Trump presidency: It inspired Peter Shane to take up the pen to detail the fallacies of unitary […]
*This is the eighth post in a symposium on Peter Shane’s “Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency.” For other posts in the series, click here. For the first decade of my academic career, I shared an office wall with Peter Shane. As I have reminisced elsewhere, Peter’s mentorship (and […]
*This is the seventh post in a symposium on Peter Shane’s “Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency.” For other posts in the series, click here. In West Virginia v. EPA, the Supreme Court struck down Obama’s signature climate regulation based on the major question doctrine. The Court’s rationale was […]
*This is the sixth post in a symposium on Peter Shane’s “Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency.” For other posts in the series, click here. In Democracy’s Chief Executive, Peter Shane provides powerful critiques of originalism and unitary executive theory, and he recognizes that this interpretive methodology and substantive […]
*This is the fifth post in a symposium on Peter Shane’s “Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency.” For other posts in the series, click here. In Democracy’s Chief Executive, Peter Shane skillfully exposes the partisan beginnings and baleful effects of originalism as a theory for understanding the constitutional separation […]
*This is the fourth post in a symposium on Peter Shane’s “Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency.” For other posts in the series, click here. It is a pleasure to participate in this symposium on Peter Shane’s new book, Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future […]
*This is the third post in a symposium on Peter Shane’s “Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency.” For other posts in the series, click here. Democracy’s Chief Executive is a wonderful antidote to the strange affection many have for the “unitary” executive, including our present Supreme Court. Peter Shane’s […]
*This is the second post in a symposium on Peter Shane’s “Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency.” For other posts in the series, click here. American democracy is under threat from a frighteningly large number of sources, including from the insurrection of January 6th and the possibility of similar […]