The Sunday New York Times Magazine ran a very in-depth piece on the Senate, the imperial presidency and its future. Of note, the piece says: The assertion and expansion of presidential power is arguably the defining feature of the Bush years. Come January, the current administration will pass on to its successor a vast infrastructure for electronic surveillance, secret sites for detention and interrogation and a sheaf of legal opinions empowering the executive to do whatever he feels necessary to protect the country. The new administration will also be the beneficiary of Congress’s recent history of complacency, which amounts to … Continue reading Ever Expanding Executive Power