Separation-of-Powers Police

1497.656 - 1517.796 Daryl Levinson

I don't think gavel barriers are going to constrain the powerful much better. I mean, you can bonk someone in the head with a gavel, but... If you have the 101st Airborne, it's not going to stop a president who says, I don't care what the Supreme Court says. I'm just going to do what's best for the country. And of course, we have had presidents that have said things like that from time to time.