EP 218 IS THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE MORE POWERFUL THAN CONGRESS?

Peter Wallison feels there is an argument to be made that this is the case.  Nameless, faceless bureaucrats are left free to write the language and regulations that underpin broad laws passed by Congress.  In the process, they define much about what the federal government’s growing role is in our lives. Congress was meant to be the most powerful of our three branches of government, but it has ceded much of its role for the expediency of getting re-elected.  We explain what that means in the podcast. You might wonder where the judiciary is when it comes to reigning in the executive branch overreach. That, too, is explained, as we engage with the author of ‘Judicial Fortitude’

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