Straight out of “House of Cards:” Medicare doctor payments on Thursday without a full roll call vote. “Outrageous,” Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) told The Hill after complaining about the maneuver to a colleague. “I think it’s outrageous.” House Republican leaders… Continue reading

Jack Balkin has posted this draft on SSRN (Boston U. Law Review).  Here is the abstract: Today, America’s political system seems remarkably dysfunctional. Many people believe that our 225-year-old Constitution is the problem. But what looks like constitutional dysfunction is… Continue reading

NYT: “Senate leaders, responding to a groundswell of anger among the rank and file in both parties to the recent breakdown in procedure, will try a new trick to unstick the upper chamber.”