The most meaningful check on presidential power in the Trump era will be political. That’s because courts rely on the broader political system for enforcement.
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If a federal prosecutor were to put a city’s mayor or a state’s governor in jail, what may be the greatest source of conflict in the Constitution will become clear to the public.
The Supreme Court is considering the legality of the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan and whether the administration had the power to offer debt forgiveness in the first place.
After the recent government shutdown and breakdowns in functioning within all three branches, it looks like the separation of powers system is broken or unbalanced. It is – and it isn’t.
