Is Obama Abusing the Constitution to Combat ISIS?
Is the increased threat of ISIS a justifiable reason to increase executive power? Or is the president going too far?
A few years back, a group of waggish investors (who understandably preferred to remain anonymous) set up a billboard in Minnesota featuring a smiling President Bush and the logo “Miss Me Yet?” Well, for my part, not yet—but there’s something to be said for the honest insolence of 43’s “I do what I want” approach to presidential war powers. If we’re going to end up in the same place, why not take the direct route?
Gene Healy is vice president of the Cato Institute and author of The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power. He holds a BA from Georgetown University and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School.