While much of the news next week will be dominated by how the Supreme Court could affect the future of health care in this country through its ruling on the Affordable Care Act, I thought now may be a good time to talk about how future health care developments could affect the Supreme Court. This [...]

The word debt means simply to owe something, its definition is not just limited to official financial products such as bonds. Thinking the word debt only refers to financial products is what I believe is the core mistake with Kevin Drum‘s argument that the debt ceiling vote could be constitutional. Maybe I’m missing something here, [...]

Regardless of whether or not you think it is a good idea, our Constitution was designed with multiple veto points meant to create a bias toward status quo. The basic idea is that if you want to make large changes, you either need broad concessions or to definitively win the support of the public in [...]

You will be relieved to know that President Obama didn’t violate the Constitution or the War Powers Act when he launched us into a third totally unnecessary war because he is telling Congress the Libya action isn’t really a war. From Politico: White House officials told Democratic and Republican congressional aides Tuesday that the U.S. [...]

It is interesting to think that the creation of the Senate wasn’t just a political compromise between the small and large states, but also a de facto technical compromise between republican ideals and what the existing limits of technology allowed. At the time the Constitution was written, sending a message and getting a response from [...]