The opposite of originalism. The Founders assumed Congress would jealously guard its prerogatives, not abdicate its constitutional responsibilities
September 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The opposite of originalism. The Founders assumed Congress would jealously guard its prerogatives, not abdicate its constitutional responsibilities
It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.
February 28, 2026 at 1:36 PM
It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.
The Founders assumed Congress would defend its prerogatives, not sit passively as the Constitution is subverted
Congress must act. “This is a takeover of a major component of the legislative branch,” the expert tells Rolling Stone. “There’s no reason that they’re going to stop there.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump Is Trying to Take Control of Congress Through Its Library
Donald Trump’s administration is pushing to take over the Library of Congress, its latest effort to subsume the legislative branch.
www.rollingstone.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The Founders assumed Congress would defend its prerogatives, not sit passively as the Constitution is subverted
The Founders feared foreign influence over leaders and assumed Congress would jealously guard its prerogatives. And yet the ostensible proponents of originalism look away.
Mike Johnson: "Look, I've been a little busy on reconciliation, so I'm not following all the twists and turns of the Qatar jet. My understanding is it's not a personal gift to the president ... other nations give us gifts all the time ... it's not my lane."
May 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The Founders feared foreign influence over leaders and assumed Congress would jealously guard its prerogatives. And yet the ostensible proponents of originalism look away.
The wages of the WHCA’s public silence on the White House’s unlawful retaliation against the AP are even bolder encroachments against the free press’s prerogatives.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announces that the White House Correspondents' Association will no longer choose the pool reporter.
"Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team."
"Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team."
February 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The wages of the WHCA’s public silence on the White House’s unlawful retaliation against the AP are even bolder encroachments against the free press’s prerogatives.
Keith Ellison: "It is in the DNA of American history that the federal government cannot trample over the prerogatives of the state. That's exactly what's happening here and that's exactly why we're going to court."
January 25, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Keith Ellison: "It is in the DNA of American history that the federal government cannot trample over the prerogatives of the state. That's exactly what's happening here and that's exactly why we're going to court."
God forbid Congress assert its Constitutional prerogatives.
March 4, 2026 at 3:36 PM
God forbid Congress assert its Constitutional prerogatives.
ordering gratuitously immoral professional behavior is a kind of labor discipline when solidarity threatens management's prerogatives
September 15, 2026 at 4:21 AM
ordering gratuitously immoral professional behavior is a kind of labor discipline when solidarity threatens management's prerogatives
Reminder: if you predicted half the things happening now (threatening to take Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal; lawless mass firings; complete defiance of Congressional prerogatives; mass pardons of violent supporters) even a couple of years ago, Serious Thinkers would have dismissed you.
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March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Reminder: if you predicted half the things happening now (threatening to take Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal; lawless mass firings; complete defiance of Congressional prerogatives; mass pardons of violent supporters) even a couple of years ago, Serious Thinkers would have dismissed you.
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An authoritarian bootlicker - the Founders are rolling in their graves. They thought the Congress would defend its prerogatives against a tyrannical executive branch.
House Speaker Mike Johnson calls for the Senate to "censure" Alex Padilla after he was restrained and handcuffed by FBI agents at Kristi Noem's presser, adding that it is "wildly inappropriate behavior."
So it looks like Republicans want to escalate this!
So it looks like Republicans want to escalate this!
June 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
An authoritarian bootlicker - the Founders are rolling in their graves. They thought the Congress would defend its prerogatives against a tyrannical executive branch.
JUST IN: Judge Marc Scarsi (Trump/CACD) allows Trump administration to proceed with challenge to Calif. egg regs. Sees likely intrusion on federal prerogatives and legislation. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
CAEggOpn100226.PDF
www.documentcloud.org
October 3, 2026 at 1:00 AM
JUST IN: Judge Marc Scarsi (Trump/CACD) allows Trump administration to proceed with challenge to Calif. egg regs. Sees likely intrusion on federal prerogatives and legislation. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Imagine how tired Johnson would be, if he actually exerted Congress’ prerogatives once in a while.
‘In Triage Every Day’: A Beleaguered Speaker Says He’s Overwhelmed
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Imagine how tired Johnson would be, if he actually exerted Congress’ prerogatives once in a while.
Or like the prerogatives of the legislative branch?
January 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Or like the prerogatives of the legislative branch?
The day Brian Fitzpatrick finally said “enough”
The purple-district Pennsylvanian had staked out an aisle-crossing persona without impeding GOP prerogatives. Until Wednesday.
The purple-district Pennsylvanian had staked out an aisle-crossing persona without impeding GOP prerogatives. Until Wednesday.
The day Brian Fitzpatrick finally said enough
The purple-district Pennsylvanian had staked out an aisle-crossing persona without impeding GOP prerogatives. Until Wednesday.
www.politico.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The day Brian Fitzpatrick finally said “enough”
The purple-district Pennsylvanian had staked out an aisle-crossing persona without impeding GOP prerogatives. Until Wednesday.
The purple-district Pennsylvanian had staked out an aisle-crossing persona without impeding GOP prerogatives. Until Wednesday.
What we see again and again from the modern American elite is the insistence on receiving the prerogatives and deference due to their positions without any of the accompanying obligations.
The more I think about it, “is fair to expect a senior military leader to stand up to or refuse to accept an immoral, unethical or illegal order from the president or the secretary of defense” is an utterly embarrassing quote and such an indictment of the American officer corps
"I have been asked by some retired officers if it is fair to expect a senior military leader to stand up to or refuse to accept an immoral, unethical or illegal order from the president or the secretary of defense... But fairness is irrelevant."
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/o...
September 1, 2026 at 9:03 PM
What we see again and again from the modern American elite is the insistence on receiving the prerogatives and deference due to their positions without any of the accompanying obligations.
It’s notable that Trump cabinet secretaries and agency heads, for the most part, are acting more interested in preserving their own prerogatives against Musk’s illegal intrusions than Republican members of Congress are.
February 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
It’s notable that Trump cabinet secretaries and agency heads, for the most part, are acting more interested in preserving their own prerogatives against Musk’s illegal intrusions than Republican members of Congress are.
the entitlement of these people is beyond comprehension www.semafor.com/article/08/1...
A friendly media grows grumbly in Chicago
The press battles the DNC over its prerogatives.
www.semafor.com
August 21, 2024 at 11:51 AM
the entitlement of these people is beyond comprehension www.semafor.com/article/08/1...
My god these reps look almost physically pained just stating their basic legal prerogatives here.
Get mad! Fucking make a scene
Get mad! Fucking make a scene
In a lengthy exchange, with ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, Reps Nadler and Goldman are denied the ability to visit the 10th floor. Joyce says it's not a detention facility it's just a place ppl are housed for several days w/out beds.
June 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
My god these reps look almost physically pained just stating their basic legal prerogatives here.
Get mad! Fucking make a scene
Get mad! Fucking make a scene
I'm waiting to hear some Turley type telling me it's not that Trump is worried about what's in these documents. It's about preserving the institutional statutory rape prerogatives of the office for future presidents.
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I'm waiting to hear some Turley type telling me it's not that Trump is worried about what's in these documents. It's about preserving the institutional statutory rape prerogatives of the office for future presidents.
the utter failure of mainstream media to even pretend to defend *their own prerogatives* from an authoritarian regime is one of the bleakest aspects of our current nightmare.
October 3, 2025 at 3:56 AM
the utter failure of mainstream media to even pretend to defend *their own prerogatives* from an authoritarian regime is one of the bleakest aspects of our current nightmare.
"The oft-mentioned tyranny being opposed by gun owners is really just the sense that the wrong people are encroaching on the privileges and prerogatives of whiteness."
From 2020:
From 2020:
How gun culture and the government fell back in love
Thanks to racism and the war on terror, the two natural allies are walking hand in cold, dead hand again.
www.motherjones.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"The oft-mentioned tyranny being opposed by gun owners is really just the sense that the wrong people are encroaching on the privileges and prerogatives of whiteness."
From 2020:
From 2020:
This farcical bullshit could only work with a a completely supine congressional majority with zero interest in protecting its constitutional prerogatives, so you have to admit Trump understands the political context perfectly
Trump sent a letter to Congress informing them that the clock on the war with Iran reset, and a new 60 days of war can start without consent from Congress.
May 2, 2026 at 1:15 AM
This farcical bullshit could only work with a a completely supine congressional majority with zero interest in protecting its constitutional prerogatives, so you have to admit Trump understands the political context perfectly
Who knew that Biden could have simply defied the Supreme Court and ordered his Secretary of Eduction to wipe out student load debt -- I mean, that's all within the executive branch so courts can't interfere the President's prerogatives, right? (🙄)
February 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Who knew that Biden could have simply defied the Supreme Court and ordered his Secretary of Eduction to wipe out student load debt -- I mean, that's all within the executive branch so courts can't interfere the President's prerogatives, right? (🙄)
An asymmetrical, bi-lateral relationship in which one side has extensive responsibilities and limited entitlements, and the other side has extensive prerogatives and limited responsibilities? You got that right: it's gender.
February 9, 2026 at 8:33 PM
An asymmetrical, bi-lateral relationship in which one side has extensive responsibilities and limited entitlements, and the other side has extensive prerogatives and limited responsibilities? You got that right: it's gender.
This is exactly what reporters were told when taking the on-site tour of Guantanamo Bay. As always, once such prerogatives of asserted power are normalized, they scale up.
GEO Group (and DHS) think they have the power to forbid a member of Congress from speaking to people locked up in Delaney Hall: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
June 7, 2026 at 9:01 PM
This is exactly what reporters were told when taking the on-site tour of Guantanamo Bay. As always, once such prerogatives of asserted power are normalized, they scale up.