“While Trump tweets about seemingly irrelevant stuff, his team is fundamentally reshaping US health, safety, environmental rules.”
Key Eric Lipton thread on twitter.
Category Archives: legislation and legislatures
“AALS Call for Papers: “New Voices in Legislation””
Announcement via email:
AALS Call for Papers: “New Voices in Legislation”
AALS 2018 Annual Meeting
The AALS Section on Legislation & Law of the Political Process is pleased to announce that it will host a “New Voices in Legislation” program… Continue reading
“Why American Democracy Is Broken, and How to Fix It”
Jeet Heer in TNR:
Richard Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, wondered in a 2013 article whether this called for drastic measures: “The partisanship of our political branches and the mismatch with our structure of government raise… Continue reading
“Due Process of Lawmaking and the Obamacare Repeal”
Abbe Gluck:
So what will they do instead? Instead of having the hard debate about what a health care system really is supposed to do for its citizens (this is the debate about the tension between solidarity and “every man… Continue reading
“Tracking Congress’s Library of Secret Law: Legislative Update for the 114th and 115th Congresses”
Dakota Rudesill:
This week, three national security committees are “marking up” drafts of their annual bills. Based on the early drafts (the “Chairman’s marks”), this year will likely see Congress continuing to write Public Law provisions creating secret… Continue reading
“Despite Claims To Contrary, Trump Has Signed No Major Laws 5 Months In”
NPR:
Measuring laws passed by counting rather than by significance is pretty meaningless. More on that in a bit. Among modern Oval Office occupants, Presidents Jimmy Carter (52), George H.W. Bush (41) and Bill Clinton (41) had all signed more… Continue reading
“Secrecy Surrounding Senate Health Bill Raises Alarms in Both Parties”
NYT:
As they draft legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Senate Republican leaders are aiming to transform large sections of the American health care system without a single hearing on their bill and without a formal, open drafting session.… Continue reading
“The Senate’s Health Care Bill Remains Shrouded in Secrecy”
NBC News:
The Senate is closing in on a health care bill that could affect coverage for tens of millions of Americans and overhaul an industry that makes up one-sixth of the economy.
Only one problem: Almost no one knows… Continue reading
“How Congress Failed to Plan for Doomsday”
Garrett Graff has written this piece for Politico, with the subhead: “What would happen if some crazed gunman or terrorist massacred Congress? We don’t really know—and that’s bad news for our democracy.”
“Senate GOP won’t subject its health care bill to public scrutiny until the last possible minute”
Think Progress:
Senate Republicans plan to send their health care bill to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for analysis but don’t yet have a plan to release a draft of the bill for public scrutiny, according to Axios.
“We… Continue reading
“After the Override: An Empirical Analysis of Shadow Precedent”
Brian Broughman and Deborah Widiss have written this important article for the Journal of Legal Studies. Here is the abstract:
Congressional overrides of prior judicial interpretations of statutory language are typically defined as equivalent to judicial overrulings, and they are… Continue reading
“Temporary legislation, better regulation, and experimentalist governance: An empirical study”
Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov has written this article for Regulation & Governance. Here is the abstract:
This article presents the findings of an extensive multi-method empirical study that explored the relationship between temporary legislation, better regulation, and experimentalist governance. Temporary (or “sunset”)… Continue reading
Do We Not Have Enough Legislators Representing Us?
Steven Greenhut oped:
After giving a speech a few years ago, I was approached by an activist who wanted to tell me aout what he believes is California’s most significant political problem. I’m usually leery of enthusiastic people touting political… Continue reading
Josh Chafetz: “The Real ‘Resistance’ to Trump? The GOP Congress.”
Josh Chafetz for Politico:
Many are asking aloud questions that in recent times had only been whispered: Do the Constitution’s checks and balances still work? Is James Madison’s eighteenth-century notion that “ambition” could be trusted to “counteract ambition” applicable to… Continue reading