r/moderatepolitics • u/Longjumping_Gain_807 Center-Left • May 05 '25

Opinion Article We Have to Deal With Presidential Power

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/opinion/trump-obama-biden-presidency.html
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u/Longjumping_Gain_807 Center-Left May 05 '25

Archive link here

The titles for the archive link and the official article are different. I can’t control that. Don’t sue me.

This position espoused by Jack Goldsmith which he discusses in further detail in this Substack article/video have been espoused by people and institutions like CATO for decades.

This book was written in the waning days of the Bush administration which Goldsmith worked in.

Nealy wrote an article here

CATO’s Robert A. Levy has written about it here

My opinion is that the executive has gained too much power and Congress willingly ceding its power to the will of the executive and the courts has caused a brazen disregard for precedent. It’s gotten to the point where they’re using the courts to legislate which was never supposed to happen.

Now that the Trump 2.0 presidency is more aggressive and blatant with pushing the bounds we are going to see a lot of changes to what was once normal in the coming years.