Obama’s use of executive powers
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Posted on July 3, 2014
Obama’s use of executive powers
The Republican speaker of the House, John Boehner, announced last week that he planned to file a lawsuit to challenge Obama over his alleged misuse of presidential powers. Throughout US history, presidents have used unilateral directives to impose controversial policies, and Congress and the courts have seldom resisted. Political science professor Graham Dodds author of Take Up Your Pen: Unilateral Presidential Directives in American Politics (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), can discuss how presidents came to be able to make law by a mere stroke of the pen and what the impact of these directives has been.
Graham Dodds – Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
G.Dodds@concordia.ca
609-938-0221
Interviews in English only