Lawfare Archive: The Legislative Dog That Hasn’t Barked
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🗓️ 27 April 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
From April 11, 2022: The period after Watergate and President Nixon's resignation saw an unprecedented barrage of congressional efforts at reforming the executive branch. The period after Donald Trump's departure from office has seen no comparable spree of legislative action—at least not yet. In a recent Lawfare article, Quinta Jurecic and Andrew Kent explored the disparity and the reasons for it, and they analyzed whether any of the legislative reforms that have been so far proposed have any prospect of passage. They joined Benjamin Wittes to talk about why things are so different today than they were in the late 1970s, what happened in that period and whether Congress will actually be able to do anything now.
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| 1:53.8 | in which Benjamin Wittes, Quinta Jurecic, and Andrew Kent compared the flurry of congressional |
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