Of Judges and Senators

IT is a fact of American political life, predictable as the tides, that a party’s view of the proper division of power among the branches of government depends on which branches it controls. During the New Deal, conservatives worried about the autocratic potential of a strong executive. By the 1980s, they were lustily cheering executive power

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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IT is a fact of American political life, predictable as the tides, that a party’s view of the proper division of power among the branches of government depends on which branches it controls. During the New Deal, conservatives worried about the autocratic potential of a strong executive. By the 1980s, they were lustily cheering executive power

THE LEATHER-BOUND COMPLETE