Congressional Inaction is Enabling Executive Overreach

Why Speaker Mike Johnson’s Failure to Check Presidential Power is a Constitutional Crisis—And How the People Can Step In

The U.S. Constitution establishes a system of checks and balances in which Congress must robustly check executive power. In practice, however, Congress has increasingly failed to fulfill this duty, enabling an expansion of “imperial” presidential power. This article examines the constitutional requirements for legislative oversight of the executive bran…