IGS Co-Director Eric Schickler joined Nick Capodice and Hannah McCarthy on Civics 101: A Podcast to discuss congressional checks on presidential power and overreach.
Checks and balances are at the absolute core of our governmental workings.
The framers designed a system that was directly opposed to one person or one group of people having all the power, and we see that through the myriad ways Congress can check the president. So what are those checks? How have they waned over the last few decades? And finally, why would Congress opt to use (or not use) them?
Joining us today is Eric Schickler, professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley and author of Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power.
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