Showing posts with label presiding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label presiding. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Independent U.S. Regulatory Agencies: Undermining the Chief Executive

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On June 29, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal president has the authority to terminate the employment of heads of independ...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

The Case for a Presiding President in Russia

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On December 31, 2010, a Russian judge sentenced Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian tycoon who had been imprisoned in 2003 after defying Vla...
Saturday, February 24, 2018

Presidential Leadership

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In the wake of the failure of the joint congressional committee that was tasked with coming up with a proposal to reduce federal deficits o...
Friday, December 1, 2017

California’s Turnaround in 2013: Brown’s Budget Surpluses

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By early 2013, California had turned the corner from deficits—$9 billion in 2011 and $25 billion in 2010—to anticipated surpluses—$785 mill...
Monday, November 6, 2017

Morsi as Partisan in Constitution-Building: Lessons from Washington

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Appealing for unity after the controversial ratification of a draft constitution in December 2012, President Morsi of Egypt pledged in a ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

The State of the Union Address: The Presidency as Presiding or Partisan?

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On The O’Reilly Factor on the evening of Obama’s health-care “summit” at the White House in 2009, Bill O’Reilly told Laura Ingrahams that ...
Monday, July 2, 2012

Juggling the Court and the Constitution: Chief Justice Roberts

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Charles Krauthammer proffers a pithy summation of the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice’s majority opinion on Obama’s health-insurance law o...
Monday, June 18, 2012

France’s Hollande: Standing Above His Party’s Legislative Victory

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In the 2012 election of the E.U. state of France's legislative Assembly following the election of Francois Hollande to replace...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

Presiding over a Debt Precipice: President Obama of the U.S.

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In the context of a rapidly approaching deadline on increasing the ceiling on U.S. Government debt, Barak Obama found himself rebuffing pre...