When Congress Stopped Saying No (🇺🇸 US-UK🇬🇧 Edition)

When did Congress stop acting like a coequal branch of government?The Constitution gives Congress enormous authority over war, spending, confirmations, and oversight. Those powers have not disappeared. Yet powers that go unused eventually begin to resemble powers that no longer exist.Using recent events as a case study, I discuss how legislative restraint has gradually become legislative acquiescence—and why that change may matter far beyond any single presidency.— Dunneagin📖 To read the text of this essay and explore the catalog, visit Civics Unhinged on Paragraph.☕ Reader editions and collected volumes—including Volumes 1, 2, 3, and The Liar’s Guide to Autocracy—are available on the Fourthwall bookshelf.Reader and listener correspondence is always welcome at [email protected]. Questions, observations, or a note on how you first stumbled into the chronicle are particularly appreciated.— F.P. Dunneagin | Civics Unhinged Get full access to ~ Civics Unhinged: Dispatches From Trumpistan ~ at dunneagin.substack.com/subscribe